058- Catalyst Presents: The Artist is Present - Seann Brackin

Catalyst: A Creative Industries Podcast

“The Artist is Present” is a special series which is being hosted under the Catalyst: A Creative Industries Podcast of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries at Chapman University. “The Artis is Present” was developed under the direction of the Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art’s Director, Fiona Shen, and Registrar, Jessica Bocinski, so that a wider audience would have the opportunity to hear directly from the artists in the Escalette Collection at the University. This third episode of this series features Seann Brackin. Raised by artists Brackin has traveled the world lived in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico until at seventeen he launched his life and earned a BFA from The Pacific Northwest College of Art in painting with emphases in sculpture and contemporary art and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in painting and sculpture. Brackin describes his paintings as “blank cassettes,” activated abstract spaces that are uniquely readable to each individual viewer. As a “cassette,” his paintings are also recordings of the thoughts, emotions, and experiences that occurred throughout the time of their creation.