Lawrence Seward
New York, New York

Smaller and Smaller
wood, Sculpey, paint, glue, metal
13.2 x 7.3 x 9 cm
1998–2002

____Selected exhibitions

  • Lawrence Seward, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland, 2002
  • Artist to Artist, ACE Gallery, New York, 2002
  • Model Worlds, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2002
  • Off Island, solo exhibition, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2001
  • Shmuck, Ten in One Gallery, New York, 2000
  • Artists Who Make Pieces, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2000
  • Greater New York, MOMA/P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, 2000

Lawrence Seward was born in 1966 in Honolulu. He holds a MA, 1994, from New York University, and a BFA, 1990, from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
In simple structures, gestures, objects, and icons, I find
a place for contemplating a deeper meaning to life.
By exaggerating the ‘everyday,’ I hope to release my–self
from the constraints of pop culture
and other glamorous seductions..