Sean W. Spellman

Compound YV presents 12 Paintings/12 Collages, a solo exhibition by Sean W. Spellman. This collection of work reflects the artist’s relationship with the high desert over the course of a 20-year period. The neutral palettes and monumental shapes of the vast and strange Mojave Desert have served as a formative backdrop and a recurring theme in Sean’s minimalist work, informing his approach to living and creating, from music to visual art.

Sean combines colors, shapes, and symbols in deceptively rudimentary ways, leaving as much as possible to be filled in by the curiosity of the viewer. By encouraging the mind to wander, each of Sean’s paintings contain the hope that they will be experienced in a uniquely individualized way.