Biography | バイオグラフィー

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The artist Sean Eddy began his study of art in pre-school, when he enrolled in his first art class at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He continued to take classes there until he surpassed the age limit of 17. He is a 2010 _CE graduate of the five-year Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Cleveland Institute of Art, majoring in the Technology and Integrated Media Environment, with an emphasis in Animation and a minor in Film, Video and Photographic Arts.

Sean’s primary body of work utilizes stop-motion animation and animated pencil and ink drawings. He also creates montages out of collaged archival film, experiments with computer generated animation and motion graphics, and other short experimental and meditative films. Aside from time-based media, he also creates elaborate sculptures out of invisible tape, and draws surreal, decayed cityscapes and interlace patterns. He has sampled or experimented with carving stone, blowing and casting glass, metal working, ceramics, sewing, micro-controller programming, enameling, performance, and sound art. Though focusing primarily on animation now, he continues to investigate and dabble in a diverse repertoire of media and performance. He also plays violin, writes poetry and practices Aikido.

The art he creates is flavored by a variety of influences and interests. Some of these include the ancient pagan heritage of Europe, systems of thought and aesthetic traditions of East Asia, almost anything relating to Japan, Eastern European traditions of puppetry and animation, architecture, the first world war and decades preceding it, speculation on consciousness and physics, space travel, extrapolations of the future, dissolution of supposed innocence, and childish notions of interpreting reality. Sean is moved by deep paradoxical forces that drive his art to establish and destroy systems of order and belief in an effort to emphasize the duality of the act of seeing with what is seen.

Sean’s work has been presented in venues including various exhibitions in the Reinberger Galleries, additional shows around the Cleveland Institute of Art, and in the past three EMIT Film and Animation Festivals at the Cleveland Cinematheque. Most of these events were juried competitions.  His awards include: Craft Award for his tape sculpture, Galleon (0); honorable mention for his tape sculpture Galleon (1); and he won the competition for the Clements Memorial Scholarship, which enabled him to travel to Japan.  He was also a finalist for the President’s Traveling Scholarship Competition.

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