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Post Times is pleased to present Sean Townley’s first New York solo exhibition.
Sean Townley is a Los Angeles-based sculptor whose research-driven practice examines historical symbols embedded in monuments, architecture, and other marked sites, and their changing meanings over time. Many of his sculptures involve literal or metaphorical breaking but are not merely ‘iconoclastic’—a word that implies the social, political, or religious beliefs that are wielded against images. Rather, Townley’s artworks visualize a contestation between such belief structures and create spatial contexts for confrontation, imagination, meditation, and even surprise. Townley insists that remnants of the past are deeply entwined with the present day, and ought to be interrogated, as we weigh that which we accept versus what is cast aside.
Townley’s Fasces with Plow (2024) is a sculpture modeled after a replica of Jean Antoine Houdon’s eighteenth-cen-tury statue of George Washington (…
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Post Times is pleased to present Sean Townley’s first New York solo exhibition.
Sean Townley is a Los Angeles-based sculptor whose research-driven practice examines historical symbols embedded in monuments, architecture, and other marked sites, and their changing meanings over time. Many of his sculptures involve literal or metaphorical breaking but are not merely ‘iconoclastic’—a word that implies the social, political, or religious beliefs that are wielded against images. Rather, Townley’s artworks visualize a contestation between such belief structures and create spatial contexts for confrontation, imagination, meditation, and even surprise. Townley insists that remnants of the past are deeply entwined with the present day, and ought to be interrogated, as we weigh that which we accept versus what is cast aside.
Townley’s Fasces with Plow (2024) is a sculpture modeled after a replica of Jean Antoine Houdon’s eighteenth-cen-tury statue of George Washington (…
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