Sean Cairns

THE GARDENER

2024
oil, distemper, and sand on canvas
60 x 40 inches

Sean Cairns typically portrays romantic and tranquil scenes of nature juxtaposed against the animated pulse of human activity. His vibrantly colored and rustic landscapes, which are inspired by color field painting and German expressionist painters, often reference or pay homage to his upbringing in the Midwest. Flat, rolling hills, sprawling farmland, and vast prairies frequently dominate his canvases. Cairns typically utilizes sand, collage, pointillist, flat or impasto painting techniques to convey objects, surfaces, or landscapes. Through these techniques, he is able to blur the lines between the painted and the perceived, inviting viewers to traverse the realm where art and reality intertwine.

He has been included in exhibitions at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Galleri Urbane, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Valley House Gallery, and 12.26, and his work was recently acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art. He will have a solo exhibition at SHRINE in New York in January 2025.

[excerpted from 12.26 website: www.gallery1226.com]

estimated retail value: $12,000

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