Painting and Drawing Series Talks: SEAN MONTGOMERY

Sean Montgomery is an artist from Edmonton, Alberta, who currently lives and works in Ithaca, New York. He received a BFA in Painting from the University of Alberta and a MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University.

Montgomery’s artistic practice is focused on pattern, repetition, and exploring the space between representational and abstract imagery. His work is engaged with the history of abstraction and the examination of different artistic hierarchies. Montgomery explores topics under this umbrella including nature, landscape and Canadian iconography, textiles and fabric patterns, as well as social class and identity.

His work consists of paintings (ranging in scale from singular medium sized works to clusters of small book sized canvases), drawings, and small sculptures which have been exhibited at a range of venues including universities, commercial galleries, artist run centres, sheds and museums in Canada, Europe, and the USA.

In addition to his painting practice, Montgomery is also the Supreme Dictator of the Ithaca MoMA (The Ithaca Museum of Modern Art), as well as one of the world’s foremost scholars on the artist movement known as the “School of Lubividska”.

Sean Montgomery is represented by Laroche/Joncas in Montreal, Quebec. His upcoming exhibition, “Painting Place”, his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, opens October 15, 2016.