Interest and areas of expertise
Sean’s areas of expertise revolve around the traditional techniques of sculpture, such as wood construction, steel fabrication, wood and stone carving, and metal casting. However, other areas of interest encompass hand-built ceramic forms, cast paper, and the found object. Most recently, he has begun to explore the crossover between sculpture and printmaking.
Education
- BFA, Studio: Sculpture, Metals and Jewelry, Fibers (Appalachian State University)
- MFA, Sculpture (Towson State University)
Classes I teach
- Visual Literacy
- Form Space Media
- Construction and Assemblage
- Carving
- Hand-building
- Installation Art and Public Sculpture
- Advanced Sculpture
- Advanced Three-Dimensional Studies
- Senior Exhibition
Profile
Sean Matthews is a mixed media sculptor whose work examines the connections between the altar and the object while also investigating the aesthetic relationships between form and material. He received a BFA from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC with multiple concentrations in Sculpture, Fibers, and Metals and Jewelry and he received his MFA in Sculpture from Towson University. International sculptors such as Shawn Skabelund, Rhona Pondick, Steven Siegel, Richard Hunt, and Wendell Castle have critiqued Sean’s sculptures. He can be seen in David Nash’s 2003 DVD documentary, Discovering Heartwood: The David Nash Residency. Sean was an Art-o-Mat artist and has a small sculpture in The Whitney Museum’s private Art-o-Mat collection. His Art-o-Mat sculpture, “Junkyard Lily” was photographed and published in a limited edition of the Whitney Museum’s Art-o-Mat Calendar in 2003.Â