Gravure Gallery presents:
New England Relics: Recent Drawings and Etchings by Sean Hurley
Opening Friday, July 2nd
5:00 - 8:00 PM

Gravure Gallery in Gloucester, MA announces an exhibition of drawings and etchings by Sean Hurley. New England Relics: Recent Drawings and Etchings will open with a reception on Friday, July 2nd from 5-8 PM. The exhibition will run from July 2nd until July 23rd, 2010.

Sean Hurley was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1985. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Hampshire in 2008. Since 2007 he has worked closely with printmaker Don Gorvett, managing Gorvett's studio and gallery first in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and now in Gloucester, MA. Sean has exhibited extensively in the north east, including Boston, Gloucester, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Print Center in Philadelphia, at several venues in New Hampshire, and with a solo show in Biddeford, Maine in 2009. His work may be found in numerous private collections, including the collection of the Boston Athenaeum. He is represented in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Gravure Fine Arts, in Provincetown, Massachusetts by Bowersock Gallery, and in New York City by the Old Print Shop. Sean has taught printmaking at Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk, Maine, and was artist-in-residence at Marblehead High School this spring where he taught etching to high school seniors. He is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and of the Boston Printmakers, and currently lives and works in Gloucester, MA.

For the past several years, Sean's work has focused primarily on documenting and exploring the remnants of New England's industrialpast – the once-bustling mills, factories, and neighborhoods which now stand obsolete, and largely forgotten. Working outdoors “en plein air”, he has drawn sites throughout the region, and has developed many of his drawings into complex, time-consuming etchings produced over the course of many weeks. Recent work has focused on the Cape Ann Tool Company building in Rockport, as well as the cement factory at the Cape Ann Forge site in Gloucester.

Images shown at right:
Top: Sean Hurley - Cement Factory - Pencil and white charcoal on toned paper, 2010 - 22" x 30"
Center: Sean Hurley - Pigeon Cove - Etching with spitbite, 2009 - 19.5" x 25.5" - edition 30
Bottom: Sean Hurley drawing at the Cape Ann Tool Company, Rockport, MA, 2009