Motion Pictures

LaMontagne Gallery is pleased to present Motion Pictures, a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Sean Downey. The work uses images and forms as proxies for a feeling sense about time. Distinctions between the political, cultural, historical, and autobiographical become fluid, and imagery arises that seems almost to tell a story yet is primarily aimed at evoking sensation - particularly one that embraces contradiction. Animals act as protagonists, stillness stands in for movement, and time is caught within the body of the work. Downey’s paintings and sculptures exist as both image and object - like film stills suspended between elsewhere and the present - grounded by the handmade marks and gestures that affirm their place in the here and now.