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Sean Joyce
Sean Joyce, born in 1956, is a neoclassical figurative Realist
painter and sculptor. His technique draws inspirations from
the Mannerists to the Surrealists, from the Renaissance and
Dutch masters to the Romantics and the American Realists.
He is completely self-taught; having no formal art schooling.
His artistic gifts were evident in his first sculpture work
done at the age of three. He began oil painting at seven,
making adroit Cubist and Impressionist studies. He soon discovered
the style and quality he felt the deepest affinity with in
the Italian Renaissance masters. He won art awards in all
the schools he attended, setting his own art curriculum from
the sixth grade until his high school graduation. Rather than
going to college, he then decided to further his education
by applying his diverse talents in the film industry, where
he worked for the next ten years in various capacities. He
worked as a key animator at Bakshi Productions, was a storyboard
artist/illustrator for Columbia Pictures and other major studios,
and finally, for five years, was a matte painter/designer
at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic.
After winning the 1986 eighth annual James Wilbur Johnston
Sculpture competition, held in Washington at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Mr. Joyce left his film career and briefly
went on to teach figure and portrait sculpture, painting and
drawing at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. For
three consecutive years, beginning in 1989, he was invited
as guest teacher for Cal State University Summer Arts Festival
at Humbolt State University, in the areas of life drawing
and portrait and figure sculpture and painting. For the past
ten years he has worked almost exclusively on his fine art.
His work can be found in the collections of Gerard Depardeau,
Noah Wyle, Nick Cassavetes, Charles Sheen, Luke Perry and
Jason Priestly.
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