Sean O’Meallie
Prism Tattoo
Located in the Ent Center for the Arts lobby, this expansive installation evokes the open sky, a space where rainbows appear. Throughout history and across cultures, diBerent meanings have been attributed to this natural phenomenon that becomes visible when sunlight refracts through raindrops. While many mythologies and personal connections are associated with rainbows, the magical experience of an ephemeral spectrum across the sky is one available to all, with no barriers to access. O’Meallie states that he “wanted to coordinate multiple symbologies collaboratively, with ideas of variation, inclusion, happenstance, opportunity, movement and craft.”
Prism Tattoo
by Sean O’Meallie
Found doors and windows, paint
2024
Photos by Lynné Bowman Cravens , for the Galleries of Contemporary Art at UCCS, 2024
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sean O’Meallie
Sean O'Meallie is an artist based in Colorado Springs. He has a background in higher education and toy invention. He produces large-scale public works on occasion but prefers making small one-of-a-kind works in painted wood in his home studio where he plays with existentialist dread and human comedy to popular eBect using what he learned in the toy business and that one semester as a Psych major. He’s known for making colorful sculptures of balloons, assholes, guns, sliced bread and psychedelic fruit.
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