"Anastatica" mixed media
Sean Sullivan
19150
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Details
- Age
- 2020
- Artist
- Sean Sullivan
- Material
- Mixed media
- Estimated Value
- $1,500.00
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Description
Imported
Small flat box with tiles paint purchased from Galerie Urbane dallas or chicago devening galleries
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Research
Context
Sean Sullivan was born in 1975 in the Bronx, NY.
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Sean Sullivan lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York.
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Sean Sullivan is represented by Devening Projects in Chicago.
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Devening Projects has shown Sullivan's work since EXPO Chicago 2016.
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Devening Projects gave Sullivan his first major solo exhibition, 'Sunset, Saudade Station,' in 2017.
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Sean Sullivan is also represented by Chris Sharp Gallery in Los Angeles.
Materials
Sullivan's characteristic works are made by an oil-stick transfer process, a hybrid of drawing and monoprint in which pigment is transferred from one paper surface to another.
Materials
The oil-stick transfer process is often applied onto found paper from old books or Japanese Kitakata paper.
Materials
The transfer process deliberately admits chance: composition is controlled, but the transfer leaves unpredictable traces.
Description
The catalogued piece is described as a small flat box with tiles and paint, suggesting a three-dimensional or object-based work.
Context
Sullivan's output is described as resisting classification between painting, drawing, monoprint, and writing.
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Sullivan approaches his work as a form of 'recording,' drawing inspiration from early American photography and early music recordings.
Description
Sullivan's imagery ranges from geometric, circuit-board-like patterns to architectural interiors and biomorphic abstraction.
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Critics have connected Sullivan's work to early twentieth-century Japanese modernism and to Duchamp's notational density.
Description
Sullivan's works are characteristically modest in scale; many recent pieces measure roughly 8 x 10 inches.
Record assessment
The record is reasonably well-supported at the level of artist identity: the attribution to Sean Sullivan (b. 1975, Bronx, NY) rests on the owner's confirmed note and a prior research report citing his primary galleries, and the object's visual character — biomorphic relief, embedded objects, coloured tile border — is consistent with the three-dimensional and found-object strand of Sullivan's documented exhibition history, particularly the salt-dough and assemblage works shown at Jack Hanley Gallery in 2018. What the record lacks is any primary documentary anchor: no receipt, no gallery invoice, no certificate, and no gallery label on the verso. The handwritten inscription visible in photograph 2 (verso, centre of the backing board) has not been transcribed; if it includes the title, a date, or a signature in Sullivan's hand, it would be the single most important corroborating piece of evidence currently in the record — a close-up, legible photograph of that inscription is the highest-priority improvement. The date field reads "2020 BC," which is almost certainly a data-entry error and should be corrected to a plausible CE year; even narrowing it to a likely exhibition period would strengthen the record. The purchase source is recorded ambiguously as either Galleri Urbane Dallas or Devening Projects Chicago; no public source confirms a Sullivan–Galleri Urbane relationship, making Devening Projects the more likely point of sale, but a receipt or gallery correspondence would resolve this and materially improve the provenance.
From research, August 1, 2026
Owner Notes
Owner
Owner confirmed this attribution, per a research report: The work is attributed to Sean Sullivan.
Owner
Owner confirmed this value estimate, per a research report: The catalogue's recorded estimate for this small mixed-media work is $1,500.
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