My involvement with the American landscape is the foundation of my work. Always situated within ever-expanding environments, I am constantly involved with the effects of land use, construction, and expansion occurring around me. Because of this, I examine the contemporary landscape for architecture and forms that I perceive as over-used and ordinary. I research through the use of personal photographic sources and memory, coalescing and reconstructing my pedestrian findings into a fusion of information to emphasize the ideas of expansion. Concrete objects, barriers, façades, and building materials along with substructures, framework, and support systems are consistent characters in what I view and encounter within the landscape. Groupings of these forms function as a visualization of development and land use. The generic architectures that I highlight are usually unacknowledged and assumed. I’m interested in how we presuppose the existence of architecture by moving through the landscape while our surroundings become a blur of form and color.

Sean P. Morrissey was born and raised on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. He received his BFA in printmaking from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and is currently in the MFA program at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sean's current work deals with how we realize and mentally reconfigure the contemporary landscape, concerning: population, construction and repetitive forms. Sean utilizes printmaking techniques, both traditional and non-traditional, and also creates large-scale paperworks on walls. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in several permanent and private collections.