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Artist Message
Sean Qualls has created art for magazines, newspapers, advertisements and children's books. His work has been shown in galleries in New York and across the country. Clients include Scholastic, Pepsi-Cola, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Hartford Courant and Henry Holt. Sean draws inspiration from an array of influences such as movies, television, childhood memories, aging and decaying surfaces, old buildings, architecture, nature, folk art, fairy tales, americana, black memorabilia, outsider art, cave paintings, collectibles, african art, golden books, advertisements, psychology, mythology, music, and literature. His work is a mixed media combination of painting, drawing, and collage. Sean is the illustrator of THE BABY ON THE WAY (FSG), POWERFUL WORDS(Scholastic), POET SLAVE OF CUBA (HENRY HOLT), HOW WE ARE SMART (Lee & Low) and DIZZY (Scholastic) all available at Amazon.com or BN.com. He lives with his wife Selina Alko and their son in Brooklyn. |
