SEAN NOONAN
HALF IS YOURS

April 8-29, 2023

<sup>LKIF Gallery is pleased to presents ‘Half Is Yours’, Sean Noonan’s new exhibition.
This presentation marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

His works are grounded in a practice of material study challenging to create dialogues between mediums.

Noonan presents rather complex sensorial abstractness to the audience.The artist responds to the inherent property of the material and fuses his feelings into it while processing. Through such practice, the traces, textures, and colors become the form of painting.

His canvas, to be specific his flat wood pieces are filled with colors and rhythmical touches.  Within a single painting, he applies considerable amount of oil sticks over and over on the surface of the chosen piece of found wood, and the resulting physical trace of his hand creates expressive and organic marks with full of spontaneity.

Artist once mentioned about this unintended image in our prior interview:

“Travel and painting actually have a lot in common at least for me. I get the same excitement when I travel to a new place that I get when I start a new painting. And you know, I like to go places I've never been and as we've traveled we've kind of pushed ourselves to go places that are even more uncomfortable just to get that that response, that feeling that you get when you're you're not quite totally sure what's ahead of you.

And to me that is a lot like painting. You're trying things that you know may look terrible or may feel uncomfortable, or may even be scary if you're used to painting in a certain way. And then forcing yourself to do it, to try it, you usually get to a place where you find something exciting that you didn't expect and travels the same way. Maybe you find a new restaurant or new person or new place that seemed intimidating but now is is what speaks to you.”

In this show, he also focuses the relationship between the viewer and his work.
The title of the exhibition “Half Is Yours” reveals that his willingness to invite the audience to complete his paintings, prompting infinite associations.</sup> 

SEAN NOONAN
Sanguine Doorway
2022
Oil on found wood, white lacquered oak frame
30 x 40 cm, 12” x 16”

SEAN NOONAN
Seed Song
2022
Oil on found wood, white lacquered oak frame
26 x 35 cm, 10.25” x 14”

SEAN NOONAN
Delhi
2023
Oil on found wood, white lacquered oak frame
33 x 45 cm, 13.25” x 18” 

SEAN NOONAN
Early Form
2022
Oil on found wood
22 x 23.5 cm, 8.6” x 9.25”

SEAN NOONAN
Layered Form
2022
Oil on found wood
22 x 18 cm, 8.75” x 7.25”