Seerey’s series

A man wanders into an abandoned Victorian house, and within the dilapidation finds an intricately carved framed mirror shattered in the middle of the living room floor. The gilded frame’s curved pieces are broken off and darkened by years of dust and primary-color spray paint by local kids who had also wandered into the space. Torn pages from the home’s former resident’s books on runes and cuneiform are littered around the pile of shards. But this is just a fabrication, an illustration of what Charles Seerey’s series of work Baroque Sequence bears resemblance to.

Rather than stumbling upon layers of symbols and meanings and haphazard hues, Seerey’s approach to creating his work “requires careful inquiries” and “uses a combination of periods of research and contemplation … and intense periods of activity.” The Sacramento-based artist says Baroque Sequence contains a “predetermined vocabulary of signs and elements, from the overlooked, forgotten and the common.” Forgotten like an old house, overlooked like a pile of ruined belongings on the floor and common like spray paint? That’s just a coincidence of imagination.

A man wanders into an abandoned Victorian house, and within the dilapidation finds an intricately carved framed mirror shattered in the middle of the living room floor. The gilded frame’s curved pieces are broken off and darkened by years of dust and primary-color spray paint by local kids who had also wandered into the space. Torn pages from the home’s former resident’s books on runes and cuneiform are littered around the pile of shards. But this is just a fabrication, an illustration of what Charles Seerey’s series of work Baroque Sequence bears resemblance to.

Rather than stumbling upon layers of symbols and meanings and haphazard hues, Seerey’s approach to creating his work “requires careful inquiries” and “uses a combination of periods of research and contemplation … and intense periods of activity.” The Sacramento-based artist says Baroque Sequence contains a “predetermined vocabulary of signs and elements, from the overlooked, forgotten and the common.” Forgotten like an old house, overlooked like a pile of ruined belongings on the floor and common like spray paint? That’s just a coincidence of imagination.