With a tip of the hat to Robert Rauschenburg, Sean, of generation X age, quickly moves to speak of television and popular media as the source of his inspiration.  If his robotic characters have a tinge of familiarity it is because of their other lives as film and television stars.
And yet for all its Pop and PoMO the work also raises issues of the human and the technological.  The exhibition's thematic centre piece renders a problematic connection between the human, a short order cook (an in-joke with Sean and his friends who all work in the restaurant service industry)  and a physically dominant robot.
As we hung the show, Sean spoke of a formal concern throughout the work, that is, the relationship of the various pieces to the floor, whether implied - incomplete rendering of feet, broom as object within the work to speak of floor, or explicit - drop cloth or the like connecting painting to floor.  Floor, grounding, foundations.  One's sense of values in a technological age. 

Michael Coughlin: Curator

 
 
Photographs by Peter Harmathy