- Sean Healy (artist)
Sean P. Healy is a multimedia artist based in
Portland, Oregon [Speer, Richard. [http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3131/6386/] Willamette Week]Healy’s work often explores the rationales of social power structures utilizing everything from chewing gum to resin, cigarette butts and large sliding glass doors. [Bovee, Katherine [http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2006/09/sean_healy_supe.html] PORT]
He is the youngest artist to have been awarded a
General Services Administration Public Art Commission, and in 2006 completed a project forThom Mayne ’s federal courthouse [Jahn, Jeff. [http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2006/11/doing_a_lot_of.html Federal Courthouse] PORT] inEugene, Oregon . His project for theFBI Headquarters inHouston, Texas is due to be finished in 2008 and will coincide with a solo show at the Betty Moody Gallery. Other noteworthy group shows were;Oregon Biennial (1999), Fresh Trouble (2005) and THE HOOK UP (2007) [ [http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3331/9080/ Willamette Week | “First Thursday in review: Art-chitecture?” | June 13th, 2007 ] ]Healy received his BFA in printmaking from
Alfred University . He has had numerous one-person exhibitions both at the [http://www.elizabethleach.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=37 Elizabeth Leach Gallery] and at spaces such asMarylhurst Art Gym .Notes
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