Blog / 2017 / Observation, Beauty, Imagination, and Why

May 29, 2017

The role of art, its purpose, and its definition are all things I talk a lot about on my blog because I worry that too many people don’t realize how vital art is. This post explains how art is one of life’s necessities, on par with water, food, and shelter.

Empathetic Magic opens June 10th at the MT Burton Gallery!

Open: June 10th through July 9th
Hours: 10 AM to 5 PM every day

MT Burton Gallery
1819 Long Beach Boulevard
Surf City, NJ 08008
609-494-0006

The portraits of Clarissa and Thrash are for sale for $1800 each—see the all currently available artworks. You can purchase prints from my Redbubble shop.

a mistress and a slave
Gwenn Seemel
PG-13 (Clarissa and Thrash Fitting In) and NC-17 (Clarissa and Thrash Standing Out)
2017
acrylic on bird’s eye piqué
each painting 18 inches in diameter
UPDATE

March 24, 2018

I had to make art that made a more pointed statement the United States’ obsession with guns.


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