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Abstract Artist Sean Starr paints live to the music of Morrissey and the Smiths.
Institute For Unpopular Culture (www.ifuc.org) proudly presents . . . .
Morrissey Ruined My Life- A Tribute to the World’s Greatest Living Poet
by Action Painter SEAN STARR
www.seanstarr.com
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 7pm-MIDNIGHT at
WORKSPACE LIMITED
(2150 Folsom Street between 17th & 18th; San Francisco, CA; Parking Lot at 17th & Shotwell)
$5 Donation at the Door
*As the Institute For Unpopular Culture NEVER takes ONE PENNY of commission from our artists, we encourage our guests to support our worthy mission by DONATING AT THE BAR!!!
For more than 20 years Abstract Painter Sean Starr has drawn his greatest artistic inspiration from music, and has created most of his work while painting to the music of The Smiths and Morrissey. Sean regards Morrissey as the world's greatest living poet, and has titled this show "Morrissey Ruined My Life" for the incredible impact Morrissey’s lyrics have had on his personal relationships and his creative process as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the master of words.
The cultural influence of the music of Morrissey and the Smiths is so great that recently, installation artist Phil Collins' had an exhibit at the San Francisco MOMA in tribute to the melancholic masters of pop.
On February 3rd, 2007 Sean will demonstrate the effect of Morrissey on his life by painting a massive canvas on a stage in the gallery, recreating his private studio atmosphere. A selection of Sean's favorite Smiths and Morrissey songs will be playing while he paints. Dozens of other paintings will be on display throughout the gallery, most titled after Smiths and Morrissey songs.
"Lyrical and emotionally evocative, Sean Starr's intensely realized paintings capture the viewer's interest at first sight. Starr's fluid, spontaneous style is reminiscent of Jackson Pollock's action painting, while his imaginative color choice and thick pigments recall the work of Chagall. Starr has created his own version of Abstract Expression, one that incorporates the immediacy of inspiration. His complex rendering of light and shadow adds a meditative dimension to his vivid color choices; the viewer sees a comprehensive wholeness to his canvases. His compositions recall the movement of a wild dance, in which the viewer is as free to participate as the artist himself."
Angela Di Bello/ Director
Agora Gallery
New York, NY
2006 was a breakthrough year for Sean Starr; he not only exhibited his work at the Agora Gallery in New York, but also at The University of Washington Tacoma, and at 11 of the finest wineries in Napa, California. Considered by some to be the fastest emerging artist currently working in America, his work has evoked passionate responses from around the world through his personal website and MySpace pages that receive thousands of visitors.
"FANTASTIC. INSPIRED." Jessica Torrent Indian Orchard, MA
"INSPIRING" Ann Naylor Austin, TX
"GREATNESS" Suzanne Johnson Ontario, Canada
"YOU MAY BE MY MUSE" Holly Wallace Berkeley, CA
"BEAUTIFUL" Arnold Schwarzenegger Office of the Governor
The show will also coincide with the release of the book "You, Me and Morrissey" a collection of true-to-life stories written by Sean Starr and Colin Nasseri that chronicle the effects that the music of Morrissey had on the two writers while growing up in the 1980's in South Texas. Sean and Colin will be available at the show to sign copies of the release published by Editions Marie-Claude who has released a collective of Sean's projects titled "De Profundis" and have slated the release of "Cyrano" in 2007, a collection of original paintings and poetry by Sean Starr.
Award Winning Photographer Ryan Notch will also be exhibiting some of his photos he took of Sean Starr while working with him in Napa, California at 11 of the finest wineries there.
Sean currently lives in the mountains of Big Bear, California just outside of Los Angeles where he paints and writes his poetry and is working with other Southern California artists to open New Starr Studios in 2007 to help cultivate the career of other California artists.
For more Information about this event or IFUC, please contact David Ferguson at (415) 235-4382 or David@ifuc.org.
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