Highbrow Magazine - Superchief Gallery LA https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/superchief-gallery-la en Inside the Crude, Trippy, Politically Charged World of Artist Sean Kush https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10353-inside-crude-trippy-politically-charged-world-artist-sean-kush <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/photography-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Photography &amp; Art</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Sun, 01/12/2020 - 18:35</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1seankush.jpg?itok=7yjyMBrG"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1seankush.jpg?itok=7yjyMBrG" width="480" height="377" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p>Sean Kush has been creating sociopolitical paintings and illustrations since 2015,touching on a wide range of modern topics and often featuring God and Jesus reacting. Sober since 2007, Sean used to be a homeless drug addict. After cleaning up, he began working in the rehabilitation field, helping drug addicts and mental patients professionally.</p> <p> </p> <p>Much of his crude and trippy subject matter comes from personal experience during and after his drug addiction, and his own sense of social consciousness. </p> <p> </p> <p>According to Eben Benson, former managing editor or <em>Juxtapoz Magazine</em>, “Sean ‘Kush’ Kushner is an LA-based artist who creates politically and socially charged paintings that aim to lampoon figures of authority and power. He has no formal art training and draws heavily from his history in graffiti, skateboarding, surfing, and comics to create brilliantly-colored worlds within his work, referencing both his own experiences and beyond. Despite his impartiality to religion, his paintings contain LSD-inspired religious commentaries for no other purpose than their familiarity and provocative nature, bringing both the spiritual and physical worlds into conversation and conflict.”</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2seankush.jpg" style="height:600px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3seankush.jpg" style="height:600px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5seankush.jpg" style="height:604px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/6seankush.jpg" style="height:587px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/7seankush.jpg" style="height:596px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>The exhibit is on display at </em></strong><a href="https://www.superchiefgallery.com/"><strong><em>Superchief Gallery LA</em></strong></a><strong><em> through January 25<sup>th</sup>.</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/sean-kush" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sean Kush</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/sean-kushner" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sean Kushner</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/superchief-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Superchief Gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/superchief-gallery-la" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Superchief Gallery LA</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/graffiti-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">graffiti art</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/modern-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">modern art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/los-angeles-artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">los angeles artists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/drug-fueled-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">drug fueled art</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Editors</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photographer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Photographer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">All image courtesy of Superchief Gallery</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:35:52 +0000 tara 9282 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10353-inside-crude-trippy-politically-charged-world-artist-sean-kush#comments