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Artists›Sean Landers

Sean Landers

1962

Palmer, MA, USA

Mixed MediaContemporary

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Sean Landers works across painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and writing to construct a deliberately autobiographical practice centered on doubt, ambition, and masculinity. His paintings and drawings layer handwritten text, diaristic reflection, and recurring symbolic figures to examine identity and the role of the artist. Emerging in the early 1990s, Landers treats confession and self-analysis as both subject matter and formal strategy, creating work that refuses the distance between personal vulnerability and artistic inquiry.

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Contemporary

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Mixed Media

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (6)

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I'm Drunk with It

2005 · Oil on linen

Overall: 54 1/8 × 72 1/8 in. (137.5 × 183.2 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Imperfect Moments With Sean Landers

1997 · Cassette tape

cover: 4 5/16 × 2 3/4" (11 × 7 cm)

Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (21 × 27 cm) Image: 8 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (21 × 27 cm)

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Cartoon (I'm Lying)

1992 · Ink on paper

Sheet: 7 7/8 × 4 1/2 in. (20 × 11.4 cm) Image: 7 7/8 × 4 1/2 in. (20 × 11.4 cm)

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Cartoon (Puppet Show About The I.R.A.)

1992 · Fiber-tipped pen on paper

Sheet: 8 1/2 × 5 15/16 in. (21.6 × 15.1 cm) Image: 8 1/2 × 5 15/16 in. (21.6 × 15.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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October 11 Friday 1991

1991 · Fiber-tipped pen on found paper

Sheet: 13 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (34.3 × 21.3 cm) Image: 13 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (34.3 × 21.3 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Contemporary

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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The University of the Arts

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