Sean Hopp
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Sean Mathew Hopp (born 1970) is a surrealist painter and graphic designer, and the founder of the experimental music label Mathbat [1]. His paintings are featured in public collections in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, as well as many private collections throughout the US, Europe, and Australia.
Sean Hopp's recent series of dark portraits constitutes "a study of an imaginary group of saints and their internal demons".
[edit] Biography
Sean Hopp was born in Oakland, California, in 1970. He moved around the States frequently throughout his childhood, and spent several years in Cleveland, Ohio. He currently lives and works in Chicago with his family.
Sean's paintings are created with a combination of oil, acrylic, charcoal, inks, and various bodily fluids, in a continuing experiment using modified traditional layer techniques. Sean claims to use both hands to paint, and prefers using his fingers and hands rather than brushes. He married in 1980.
