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Sean Paul Lorentz

1983 Born in Sacramento, California

Raised in Petaluma, California

Currently lives and works in Petaluma, California 

Education

2006 Bachelor of Arts: Art (Studio) Program, University of California, Santa Cruz

Awards & Residencies

2016 Bay Bridge Steel Program, Oakland Museum of California

2012 Salem 2 Salem Residency, Salem, Germany

2007 Athena Artist Residency, Athena Foundation, NY

2005 Florence French Award for the Arts and Irwin Project Award, UC Santa Cruz 

Exhibitions

2015 Articulate Forms, group show, Griffin Map Design, Petaluma, CA

2014 Highly Recommended: Emerging Sculptors, Fredrik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan 

2014 Rivertown Revival Public Gathering, Floating Installation in Petaluma River, Petaluma, CA

2014 20@20, Voight Family Sculpture Foundation at Paradise Ridge, Santa Rosa, California 

2013 Spirit of the Man, Voight Family Sculpture Foundation at Paradise Ridge, Santa Rosa, California

2012 Museum show and residency, Salem 2 Salem, Salem, Germany

2012 Petaluma Art Center outdoor sculpture installation, Petaluma, California 

2012 Rivertown Revival Public Gathering, Floating Installation in Petaluma River, Petaluma, CA  

2012 CW Gallery, Petaluma, CA

2011 Special Relativity, Spacetime Studios, Queens, NY 

2011 Group Show, Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2011  Rivertown Revival Public Gathering, Floating Installation in Petaluma River, Petaluma, CA  

2011 Menagerie Collective, Hollis Studios, Oakland, CA

2010 Outrageous Claims, two person show with Eli Slaydon, Linda Ryan Gallery, Livermore. CA 

2010 Beyond the Garden Wall, Dimensions Galleria, Petaluma, CA

2010 Rivertown Revival Public Gathering, Floating Installation in Petaluma River, Petaluma, CA  

2009 Eli Slaydon & Sean Paul Lorentz, Self-Produced, Mare Island, Vallejo, CA     

2009 Annual Juried Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA

2008 Annual Juried Exhibition, Petaluma Art Council, Petaluma, CA 

2007 Marin Brain Injury Network Benefit Exhibition, Marin County, CA

Collections

Collection of Dallas Price & Bob Van Breda, San Francisco, CA

Collection of Kimberly Pfendler, Petaluma, CA

Private Collection, Hollywood, CA

Private Collection, Tiburon, CA

Commissions

2010 The Patt Dombroski Outdoor Classroom, co-commissioned by Dombroski Family & The Petaluma School District 

2009 Female Figure, commissioned by Kimberly Pfendler

Relevant Work Experience

2011-present Studio Manager, Mark di Suvero (Spacetime cc)

2007-2011 Studio Assistant, Mark di Suvero (Spacetime cc)

2006 Foundry Technician, Monterey Sculpture Center, Monterey, CA

2006 Foundry Technician, Bronze Works, Santa Cruz, CA

2006 Teaching Assistant: Foundry, Cabrillo Junior College, Aptos, CA 

2005-2006 Teaching Assistant: Foundry, University of California, Santa Cruz

Statement

My work is the product of an instinctive process involving personal experience and the perpetual development of skills within the medium I am using. The materialization of each piece and the resulting discoveries I make about the medium or myself are critical elements of the finished sculpture. Each piece is cumulative of the knowledge gained from the ones preceding it, and represents the fluid evolution of my abilities and my own personal responses to the materials I am manipulating and attempting to master.  Often kinetic, my work interacts with the viewer, requiring their participation for its activation and movement. With much of art guarded and untouchable, I break from the norm and invite people to play with my work, become a part of it, and become surprised by what their touch creates.