SEAN YARBROUGH
Born and raised in Colorado, Sean’s first and foremost artistic inspiration stems from his father, Carl, whose career as a professional freelance photographer enabled him to travel the world, and experience beautiful, wild landscapes, unique cultures, and top athletes. Carl's lifelong dedication to his creative path continues to inspire Sean to this day.
Sean’s journey as an artist was profoundly impacted by Michael Hollenbach, his high school art teacher, who first exposed Sean to ceramics and sculpture. While attending Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, Sean embarked on his career as an artist, exploring various themes ranging from hallucinatory dreamlike states and visions, to environmental destruction, human consciousness, consumption and its impact on the world. These sculptures and paintings were just the beginning of his search into human perspectives of spirit and our relation to the cosmic universe.
After moving back to the front range post graduation, Sean traveled through Asia experiencing vibrant foreign cultures, landscapes, art and spirituality. In 2014, after returning from his travels, Sean began dedicating more time to meditation and his painting practice. Shortly after this, he attended a Visionary Art Intensive with Alex and Allyson Grey in Rhinebeck NY. Alex's artwork has always been one of Sean's greatest inspirations. Being able to work with, and learn from, him and Allyson on multiple occasions, has been a trans-formative turning point, which further fueled his artistic passion and practice.
Sean paintings reminds us of our deep connection with the earth and the cosmos through surreal, visionary, and abstracted astro imagery. He continues to push the boundaries with his three-dimensional paintings, and is now creating kinetic steel sculptures, some of which use concepts from previous work and elaborate on those themes in different ways.
Sean and his father Carl have teamed up and are collaborating on a series of medium to large outdoor kinetic sculptures. They each bring our own unique creative touch & various skillsets together to make a great creative team that is currently building a series of sculptures that deal with time, space, spirit, Earth, the elements and more. Using the Fibonacci sequence and other forms of sacred geometry, these sculptures reflect light, and cast shadows in fantastic ways making them transform from day into night and from one vantage point to the next.