Sean Capone
Sean Capone is a projection artist based in New York City who presents simulated floral vistas, with a focus on pattern and decoration. Capone’s mix of animation with decorative blossoms and flowers, projected on a monolithic scale within both gallery and museum settings, lends new subtext to a once ornamental genre. Since 2003 the artist’s even-handed, exquisite projections have appeared around the world in cities such as London, Melbourne, New York, Paris and Berlin.
Sean Capone’s work recently appeared at the DCKT Gallery in a two-person show that opened on June 23, 2011. A few months earlier on April 27th, the Brooklyn Artists Ball featured Capone’s Pink Narcissus, (2011) a five-minute video installation that opens with a virtual, pink stage curtain, which gradually gives way to a lyrically animated display of flora and fauna. Earlier in the year, Sean Capone was an invited artist at the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago and his work was featured at the SOFA Fair located in the Park Avenue Armory.
Stunning is one word that attempts to sum up Sean Capone’s projections which consistently transform staid spaces into completely different environments. Camera Rosetum (2010) and Floral Wall (2010) that appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of two separate benefit events, completely changed the museum’s formal interior into a digitally botanic wonderland. In 2010, Sean Capone won the Grand Prize for Public Art Installation at the DUMBO Arts Festival, as well as an award from Americans for the Arts Public Art Network.
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