Art on Campus - Sean Higgins

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SEAN HIGGINS

A group of erupting volcanos.

Eruption, 2016
Sean Higgins
Photo Collage
24 x 24 inches
Location TBD

A group of icebergs.

Bergs, 2016
Sean Higgins
Photo Collage
24 x 24 inches
Location TBD

Sean Higgins works in a medium that might most appropriately be described as digital college. Using a mixture of found and captured imagery, he creates fictional worlds where time and space are ambiguous at best. Through poetic juxtapositions, overt erasures, and subtle duplications, Higgins fuses disparate subjects into a tenuous whole. Landscapes, outer space, technology, dreams, and memories all combine to create new environments that could exist equally in the future or in the past. In his most recent series, volatile geological phenomena such as volcanoes and icebergs are presented as layered strata, multiple localized manifestations of an ever-evolving landscape.

Sean Higgins graduated with an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He has had solo shows at sixspace, Los Angeles, Ambach and Rice, Seattle and Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York. Some group show highlights include the traveling exhibition Alptraum!, Photography in the Digital Age at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, New Times Roman at Texan Equities, Los Angeles, Rogue Wave '05 at LA Louver gallery, Venice, California and Marine Salons No. 3 and No. 7. Higgins recently co-curated a group show at Kopeikin gallery in Los Angeles called Transporter.