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Source(google.com.pk)James Sebor seemed destined to be an artist. He was born on Vincent van Gogh's 104th birthday in 1957, the son of a conductor on the Long Island Railroad. Like so many of us, Sebor grew up with a third parent - television. Television is, by its very nature, a surreal world. And to the fertile mind of a naturally creative child, unfettered by adult perceptions, it's a world of not just limitless POSSIBILITIES, but limitless PROBABILITIES. Sebor's surrealistic art reflects this as much as it reflects Breton or Dali. With a BA from Southampton College under his arm and graduate studies at New York's School of Visual Arts under his hat, Sebor left Long Island for the most surrealistic state (and state of mind) on earth - California. There, in Oceanside, he found the closest thing to an artist's "heaven on earth," a studio over a pizza parlor - how surreal. No need for TV anymore, he saw surrealism right from his studio window. Today, he's back living on Long Island, playing the New York gallery game, playing drums in a band with the rather surreal name, the Bedrockers, and married to a school psychologist. All of which must make for some rather surreal conversation over dinner.
Don't expect to look at James Sebor's "Great Invisibles" series or his sensitive "Millie," a touching tribute to his mother's death in 1999, and hope to understand his work. Surrealism is a method of thought, rather than a great mystery to be unraveled. With time and study, individual works may be unwound, if not unraveled, but if surrealism, with its emphasis on the melding of conscious images with unconscious and subconscious memories, were that simple it would no longer provoke our minds. Sebor plays games with our minds - cat and mouse games - as in his series by the same name. His work ranges from the merely strange (another series title), to the molecular as in his "Molecularism" series. Having seen his molecular "Lunch" you'll never be able to face down a deluxe cheeseburger with fries again.
Being a visual artist, and especially one giving visual form to that which is inherently a literary, intellectual, and speculative genre, one might expect Sebor's surrealistic paintings to be cool and dry. They're not. It's here he departs most notably from Dali. Quite the opposite - it's warm and damp with jungle humidity and human perspiration generated from curiosity, tears, longing, humor, terror, love, hate - all the emotions that are the building blocks of the psyche. Yet the intellectual basis of Surrealism is not ignored. At times in fact, he seems to embrace the logic behind the surreal drawings of M. C. Escher. Sebor's website is steeped in Surrealist theory, from Breton's original Great Invisibles to Dali's Critical Paranoia. He walks you through it so that, even though you have no hope in understanding Surrealism, you at least know from whence it came and how it developed.
Vandorn Hinnant received his BA degree in Art Design in 1981 from the NC A&T State University in Greensboro, NC. He then lived in New York City and worked as an intaglio printer for artist Josef Werner of Germany. In the fall of 1982 and 1984, he studied sculpture at UNC-Greensboro. From 1991 to 1993, he worked in the Artist-In-Schools program through The Green Hill Center for NC Art. In 1995 and 1996, he taught studio art courses at Winston-Salem State University. In 2002 he ended a four year period of serving as curator for the African Heritage Center at NCA&T State University. His original works of art are in numerous private and corporate collections throughout North America. Some works are in African and Europe. He works in painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installations. He also serves as a visual arts educational consultant working with both youth and adult learners. Vandorn is currently teaching at The Osher Life Long Learning Institute at Duke University, Durham, NC.
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