SEAN NOONAN
b. 1986, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in Kingston, NY
Sean Noonan (b.1986, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Kingston, New York. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since graduating from Pratt University with a BFA in 2009. Noonan synthesizes his interactions with the outside world- moments, forms, impressions and fleeting visuals- as gestures and marks that make their way into small-scale paintings. He paints with oil and enamel on found and often weathered wood, embracing the inherent history within the materials, and conversing with the existing evidence in the surface of past human interactions. Paint is applied to storied foundations, following the same channels that deliver the illusion of familiarity when recalling a landscape from a dream, or a memory; only able to provide focus to what lies on the periphery, bringing clarity to nothing the eyes fall directly on. Seeking to capture marks singularly his own, similar to the cultivation of a person’s own handwriting developed through years of use, these motifs exist in a fluid state, with the artist anchoring them through methods and traditions of historical painting. Flaws are embraced and his process left out in the open within the painting and its construction, striving to harmonize as a whole upon completion.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, Bachelor of Fine Art
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Project Room: Sean Noonan, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Sidewalk Talismans, MARC STRAUS, New York, NY
2023 Half Is Yours, LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 I Am Here Too, LKIF Gallery , Seoul, Korea
GROUP SHOWS
2024 Safety Tips for What Comes Next, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
2023 Alberte Tranberg + Sean Noonan, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
Tightly Knit, Loose Fit / Group Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York, NY
Fall Preview, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Pulp Holyoke, MA
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
Intersect Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA
The Universal Vibration / Group Show, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Group Show, Art at Kings Oaks, Newtown, PA
Group Show, SOHO REVIEW Gallery, London, UK
2021 Nocturnes / Sean Noonan + Paul Simmons, MONUMENT, Kingston, NY
I am afraid to own a Body / Group Show, Poker Flats, Williamstown, MA
Terra Nova / Group Show, Resort Baltimore, Baltimore, MD