Sean Crim

Sean Crim is a Los Angeles based artist, primarily working in oil on canvas as well as pastel with a focus on non-objective art.  He utilizes color, contrast and texture creating bright, powerful and enlightening works of art. His work provides a sense of self-enlightenment, positive energy and a look into his own self-creation, desires and person. His contemporary style depicts aspects of non-objection and abstract expressionism involving his emotional and psychological self with his present intuition from personal experiences and mental achievements. His art impacts one’s self by taking them to another realm, inner-state and feeling that makes them look deeper within themselves, pushing their boundaries of what they truly want and desire in life and within.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992, art has always been a vital part of Sean’s life. Art was his form of therapeutic, creative expression, conveying his inner thoughts and feelings without explaining them in words. It created a positive escape from reality, freeing him from the stigmas and labels of society and allowing him to truly be his own self. In the fall of 2007, Sean took his art to the next level while attending Georgetown Preparatory School in Washington DC. His art focused on realism, more specifically on portraits of people who influenced him and positively impacted his life. Throughout his high school career, Sean was honored with multiple awards for his work across the DC area. Upon graduation in 2011, he painted a detailed portrait of his grandfather who passed away the day after his birthday in 2010. Sean surprised his grandmother on graduation day with the painting, immediately bringing her to tears while she smiled ear to ear with pure joy. In this moment, Sean realized how his art connected with people’s emotions and feelings, altering their current state in a positive manor. The experience with his grandmother demonstrated how powerful art can be, how it can change people’s perspectives, and elicit positive, meaningful change. He continued his art at Wake Forest University, where he earned his BS in Finance and minor in Studio Art. His studies brought him back to his art foundation and a deeper understanding of where his art can go.

After graduating from Wake Forest in 2015, Sean took a job at HFF in commercial real estate in Atlanta. He left HFF in the fall of 2016 to help his mom, Judy, start her dessert company, Judy's Sweets & Treats. While helping start the dessert company, Sean began painting again and received commission paintings. This moment was the rebirth of his art and it rekindled his passion. He finally felt true happiness again and was reminded of the life-changing aspects he could bring to himself and the people around him. Watching his mom pursue her dream, Judy’s Sweets & Treats, Sean realized that he too could pursue what he was really passionate about. No matter the journey, everything always brought him back to the one thing he truly loves, art. Building his foundation, Sean began working primarily on commission pieces, creating a body of work, and bringing happiness to others.

Sean moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2017 to truly focus on his art and build his career. He started creating bodies of work that were focused on positive mental health and positive mental reinforcement. The pieces became an expression of his emotions and inner-self through memory and personal experiences. In November of 2017, Sean showcased his art in the Malibu Art Walk. The feedback and accolades he received pushed him to continue and expand his portfolio. After a trip to Napa Valley in January of 2018, Sean started a mini-series called the ‘Sensation of Wine’, illustrating the movement, emotions and energy of having wine. This was followed by his first actual series in the summer of 2018, ‘Perseverance’. Sean honed in on the ongoing theme of self-exploration, positive mental change, and inner strength. The series consisted of bull skulls that represented his confidence and tenacity to overcome challenges and to achieve whatever he put your mind to. While working on ‘Perseverance’, he began his series, 'Animals, the Spirit Within', which exemplified similar inner emotions, self-perseverance and strength through the spirit, emotion and stance of animals. He finished this series in late fall of 2018 and showcased it at The Regent Cocktail Club in Miami for Art Basel 2018 Miami. Most recently, he completed a mini-series on dessert, 'Following your Happiness', in the winter of 2019. Exemplifying his abstract expressionist style, the series reflects on the very thing that reconnected him with art, his mom’s dessert company and finding true happiness. Sean’s newest pieces transform from an abstract expressionist style into non-objective abstraction as portrayed in his series ‘Into the Light’. The paintings focus on his inner emotions, intuition, personal growth, and ability to always find the light no matter how dark it becomes. In the fall of 2019, Sean showcased part of this series in a group show titled 'into the Light', based on his series, at The Whole 9 Gallery in Culver City, California. Currently, Sean dives deeper into non-objective work with his series, Present + Positive, exemplifying an emotional, intuitive self through the power and strength of surrendering in the now, the present moment.

Sean’s work is being displayed across the US in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC and Atlanta as well as Puerto Rico. Sean continues to bring awareness, connect, and have a greater impact through his focus on overall emotional, mental, physical and spiritual balance through positivity, personal change and growth and mental health. This is only the beginning as he continues to learn, grow and transform his passion for art.

Sean Crim’s work can be seen at www.seancrim.com.