Sky bivouac, Hubris tour, Drop ceiling
Recycling words buys time, To open cages for ghosts, To walk the river beside us (Hmong)
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2008, Resurrection
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2006, Seeding
2006, Immaculate Conception
Sean Smuda
I have been practicing photography since I was twelve. I have also been working with my dreams from an early age. My mother would write them down in a book for me. She also gave me the poetry of Rimbaud (or maybe it was from my father’s shelf), the Beats, and of our friend, Meridel Le Sueur. The other-worldly with a socially engaged component has since been an M.O. After art schooling in Brussels, the Great Books Program, and the Boston Museum School, I moved back to Minneapolis in its musical heyday. Since then I’ve been playing in many noise bands, painting, film making, dancing and photographing. When I moved to my current studio and created a Matta-Clark inspired installation, it became the Shoebox Gallery, which I have curated for five years. This year I was awarded the city’s Mosaic commission, celebrating its diversity.
Blueprint Series
- Butterfly wheel, Soaring heart, No Pollution (Chinese), archival pigment print, 36”x 24”, 2008 (postcard)
- Sky bivouac, Hubris tour, Drop ceiling (English), archival pigment print, 36” x24”, 2008
- Recycling words buys time, To open cages for ghosts, To walk the river beside us (Hmong), archival pigment print, 36” x24”, 2008
Dreams and Allegories
- 2008, Resurrection, archival pigment print, 22”x30”
- 2006, Seeding, C- print, 30”x 24”
- 2006, Immaculate Conception, C- print, 30”x24”
