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| Through his plywood installation, Slemon questions the identity of Hurricane ] and the social disparities she revealed. His choice of plywood, a pedestrian material, references its use in constructing buildings all over the ]. Slemon cuts the plywood sheets into islands that come together in a loose assemblance of abstracted aerial views of the ]’s currents from satellite images. These forms gravitate around the eye of the storm. Layers of plywood, varying in width and length reflect the depth and height of ]'s precipitation. Slemon carves these forms suggesting pauses and thrusts of ]'s unbridled motion charging through space. | Through his plywood installation, Slemon questions the identity of Hurricane ] and the social disparities she revealed. His choice of plywood, a pedestrian material, references its use in constructing buildings all over the ]. Slemon cuts the plywood sheets into islands that come together in a loose assemblance of abstracted aerial views of the ]’s currents from satellite images. These forms gravitate around the eye of the storm. Layers of plywood, varying in width and length reflect the depth and height of ]'s precipitation. Slemon carves these forms suggesting pauses and thrusts of ]'s unbridled motion charging through space. | ||
| Slemon's work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line" curated by ] |
Most recently, Slemon's work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line" curated by ]. Slemon was selected as one of seventeen artists across the country who were asked to define what they thought contour meant to them. This exhibition was ten months in the making. The curator chose as his premise to allow the selected artists to define what the word contour meant to them. This exhibition was the culmination of a subjective approach through curator and artist participation.<ref> </ref> This exhibition also included Sara Garden Armstrong, Steve Baris, Luis Carle, Travis Childers, ], Jacob H Grad, Louis Hill, ], Antjuan Oden, Amy Pleasant, Eric Rhein, Jessica Rosner, ], Joel Seah, Yuko Shimizu and J. M. Walker. | ||
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Slemon is a South African artist who primarily works in sculpture, installation and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City, New York. Slemon graduated from Michaelis School of Art, UCT with distinction in 2001 and will finish with an MFA at Pratt Institute, New York City, New York in 2007.
Slemon’s interest in public space and architecture has evolved during his work with the production and installation of museum and heritage sites in South Africa and abroad. Since 2001, Slemon has worked on ‘The New Northern Cape Legislature Buildings’ in Kimberley, Constitutional Hill Museum, Johannesburg. ‘46664 A Prisoner Working in the Garden’, Nelson Mandela Foundation traveling exhibition.
His art
Through his plywood installation, Slemon questions the identity of Hurricane Katrina and the social disparities she revealed. His choice of plywood, a pedestrian material, references its use in constructing buildings all over the USA. Slemon cuts the plywood sheets into islands that come together in a loose assemblance of abstracted aerial views of the Katrina’s currents from satellite images. These forms gravitate around the eye of the storm. Layers of plywood, varying in width and length reflect the depth and height of Katrina's precipitation. Slemon carves these forms suggesting pauses and thrusts of Katrina's unbridled motion charging through space.
Most recently, Slemon's work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line" curated by Jon Coffelt. Slemon was selected as one of seventeen artists across the country who were asked to define what they thought contour meant to them. This exhibition was ten months in the making. The curator chose as his premise to allow the selected artists to define what the word contour meant to them. This exhibition was the culmination of a subjective approach through curator and artist participation. This exhibition also included Sara Garden Armstrong, Steve Baris, Luis Carle, Travis Childers, Clayton Colvin, Jacob H Grad, Louis Hill, Lee Isaacs, Antjuan Oden, Amy Pleasant, Eric Rhein, Jessica Rosner, Virginia Scruggs, Joel Seah, Yuko Shimizu and J. M. Walker.
Quotes
- Slemon has been preoccupied with space for some time now. In 2005 he reproduced the internal footprint of the Premises Gallery at the Civic Theatre in Braamfontein using gradually reducing layers of carpet that rose up to form a two-and-a-half-ton mountain. In this work entitled Uplift:The Mountain Premises he sought to render the gallery space as solid material. By entirely occupying a space with an artwork, an act that must have caused a certain degree of inaccessibility and inconvenience, Slemon sought to probe the manner in which we attempt to control the personal and public spaces that we occupy. -Jackie McInnes, SA Art Times, Issue 8, August 2006
- Slemon develops ideas from known sources and executes his works from facts and statistical data about his subjects. He gains insight through these pre-existing information sources that posits imaginary boundaries and artificial aesthetic concerns assimilating ways to invoke viewer response. -Jon Coffelt
- Slemon is a joint winner of South Africa’s 2005 Sasol New Signatures Competition, and was presented with the Judges Award. He was awarded a commission for the first Spier Biennial in 2001 and served on the committee for Visual Arts Network of South Africa.
External links
- Coffelt, Jon Curatorial Statement: Contour: The Definitive Line (Schedler Minchin Fine Art)
- Murinik, Tracy. Michaelis Exhibition 2001 (ArtThrob)
- Ross, Jill. Sean Slemon in studio (davidkrutpublishing.com)
- Sean Slemon (David Krut Art Resources, Johannesburg, SA), links to pages about Slemon
- Sean Slemon: Katrina and the Five Boroughs (David Krut Projects)
- Stern, Nathan. blog entry about Slemon