vorak Sec Contemporary is pleased to present After Images, a solo exhibition and European debut of New York-based artist Sean Micka. The exhibition is the second show in the gallery’s new exhibition program primarily focused on presenting young and emerging talent from the New York City art scene.
After Images explores the space between contrasting models of painting and sculpture by combining elements of each into its formal display. Monochrome, still life, and striped stereoscopic paintings sit alongside the found objects, such as archived printed matter, books and striped fabric, they borrow inspiration from. In his paintings, Micka experiments with the idea of his works as sculptural objects, purposefully employing techniques that draw attention to the material support of the canvas and its geometric shape. Presenting a disciplined approach to form, composition, and display, his work often oscillates between representation and abstraction and in doing so questions the relationship between the two. “After Images is an exercise in working through the radically disparate aesthetics of the image, its after effects and its seemingly infinite albeit sometimes entropic permutations,” says the artist.
Sean Micka graduated from the Art Institute of Boston with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He has had solo exhibitions at the Judi Rotenberg gallery in Boston, Mass; and the Art Institute of Boston; and group exhibitions at the Pigman Gallery in San Francisco; the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston; and The Art Gallery of Knoxville in Tennessee. In 2007, his works were chosen to be featured in New American Paintings, Vol. # 62by the juror Bill Arning. He has a forthcoming book with Onestar Press in Paris. Sean Micka lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
