Sean Hennessey
Sean Hennessey is a mixed media artist working primarily in glass and architectural relief. Spurred by a profound connection to archaeology, myth, history, and science, Hennessey taps into the long tradition of storytelling through handmade objects. His enigmatic sculptural compositions are embedded with kiln-cast glass versions of books, planes, and maps, as well as current and outdated technologies like rotary phones, light bulbs, and cassette tapes. The layered, nostalgic artifacts are internally illuminated with LED and painted to produce dramatic patterns and vibrant color shifts. Imbued with intergenerational memory and universal metaphor, the objects bring lessons from the past into the present, alluding to the cyclical nature of time while firmly marking their own unique moment.
Hennessey received the Artist Fellowship Award from the District of Columbia Arts and Humanities Council, the Recognition of Excellence in Craft Award from the James Renwick Alliance, and the Star of Tomorrow award from the Smithsonian American Art Renwick Gallery. Exhibition venues include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: [include best Seattle venue] Seattle, Washington; Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN; Sunderland Gallery, Sunderland, England; and American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC. His work is in the collections of Amazon Web Services, The City of the District of Columbia, and The US Arts in Embassies Program, with public commissions including the Aquilino Cancer Center, The Howard Theatre, The Library of Congress, and the City of Baltimore. Hennessey attended Berea College and lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
https://www.sean-hennessey.com/
Hennessey received the Artist Fellowship Award from the District of Columbia Arts and Humanities Council, the Recognition of Excellence in Craft Award from the James Renwick Alliance, and the Star of Tomorrow award from the Smithsonian American Art Renwick Gallery. Exhibition venues include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: [include best Seattle venue] Seattle, Washington; Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN; Sunderland Gallery, Sunderland, England; and American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC. His work is in the collections of Amazon Web Services, The City of the District of Columbia, and The US Arts in Embassies Program, with public commissions including the Aquilino Cancer Center, The Howard Theatre, The Library of Congress, and the City of Baltimore. Hennessey attended Berea College and lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
https://www.sean-hennessey.com/