About this project
I am producing four 24" x 20" digital, exhibition prints on high quality Fuji Matte paper, surface mounted on aluminum with a UV coating and an aluminum hanging bracket to be shown in Southern, a group show curated by artist and historian Judith McWillie which will be held at ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, January 21- March 4, 2012. Additionally, I will need funding to transport the artwork from New York to the exhibition space in Athens, Ga.
The images are from photographs I took in my brother John Seawright's home and studio immediately following his sudden death ten years ago. We had often discussed collaborating on a project sharing ideas and material like we had in our younger years, unfortunately these still lifes are as close as we ever came to realizing that.
Many people knew and loved John as a poet and as a chronicler of Georgia's hidden history in his Ghost Fry column and from his articles in the Oxford American, as well as being a larger than life figure in Athens lore. He was an endless source of fascinating stories, an amazing wealth of knowledge, a politician and a preacher.
My goal, through this exhibition of images, articles and poems, is to continue to keep John's memory alive and to expand his wonderful writing and art to a new and larger audience.
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A 5" x 7" limited edition, signed and numbered, digital print on quality paper of John Seawright's studio by Sam Seawright.
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An original, signed sumi ink drawing by Sam Seawright, 17" x 11" As well as a 5" x 7" limited edition print.
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A studio visit to Sam Seawright's studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard plus dinner with the artist at Dino in Ft. Greene. You can also select a work on paper at the studio. This reward can be redeemed any time.
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A 24" x 20" limited edition print (4 photographs each in an edition of 10 prints) on high quality paper, surface mounted on aluminum with a UV coating, signed and ready to install.
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I'm an artist living and working in New York city, I was born in Toccoa, Georgia and received my b.f.a from the University of Georgia in 1982 and my m.f.a. from the University of Texas, Austin in 1986. I have had solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Athens
