Sean Anthony Winn is a fine artist whose work questions ideas of self, mental health, and the exploration of relationships with others through those around us. These at once realistic and ethereal paintings communicate variation of self-expression traversing anxiety, depression, and identity. Through Winn’s gaze towards his fellow peers and the connection he shares with them on a metaphysical level. Influenced by pop-culture, the mental health awareness movement, and extra-terrestrial motifs, Winn contrasts the absolute with the surreal and the overly mundane through the human figure to amplify the once taboo human emotion.
Working in mediums such as acrylic and oil, Winn is experimenting with techniques and materials such as light, space, and metaphorical objects in his latest work. Winn often evokes the iconic and the eerie within his portraiture work.
The melancholy world’s that he creates confront the battles of mental health in his own personal life, but also in the lives of those he surrounds himself with. There has been a generational awakening in society’s openness surrounding anxiety and depression and normalizing talking about our feelings and seeking professional help. Winn’s goal is to further fuel those conversations and enhance self-awareness through various series of work.
