Sebastian Black

Untitled, 2022

Reader, 2023

Minoru's red shadow, 2022

Glub Glub, 2023

Glub Glub, 2023

Untitled, 2022

Untitled, 2022

Untitled, 2022

Untitled, 2022

Rat Ghost, 2022

Rat Ghost, 2022

Untitled, 2022

Untitled, 2022

Sister Apple Cheeks, 2020

Bird, shot, 2015

Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2015

Study for Rat Puppet, 2022

Sconce Concept, 2022

Study for Neither, Norm and Minoru, 2022

Transverberation of Saint Teresa, 2021

Untitled, 2022

Minoru's red shadow, 2022

Minoru drinking, 2022

The Rat Ghost, 2022

Untitled, 2014

I’m not a fan of the word bitter when it’s used to describe cold. I feel like bitter is too nuanced, suggests too many of the experiential layers that cold weather so often levels. Nor do I think sour would be better suited, 2017

Grant's Pool, 2020

There were six long art students, thin like spaghetti, standing around the nude model [whiskers]. The model posed with her head thrust forward and her fingers locked together behind her back [nose, mouth]. Her stage was a little round platform with a blanket thrown over it [muzzle]. The art students looked up at her and one by one broke their vine charcoal into two pieces [pupils]. They rubbed the black sticks onto pads of newsprint until the shape of the powder that crumbled off resembled the shape of the model. Meanwhile, the teacher sat by the window and fiddled with a paint flecked oval boombox [head]. He carried it around the room like a thurifer, trailing plumes of static. He waved it about, and pushed its antennae this way and that [ears] until, finally, it shouted ​“Autozone!”, 2018

The job of us artists is to draw new lines. All the old lines are straight [whiskers], even the curvy ones and us artists gotta draw new ones. Us American artists, we thought the road was really something. For a hundred years we poked at its vanishing point [mouth] with our thoughts. Like sea lions we thought we could balance our dreams on its pointed tip [nose]. Like sea lions we were wrong! Us artists need to learn more from the Parisian Communards who barricaded the streets but pierced the houses [eyes, pupils] and flowed thataway. They ​“found flowers [muzzle] which are chairs” said Rimbaud confusingly. Oh artists! We are the Most Influential Artist’s of, 2018

India, 2021

Bank Desk Embankment, 2015

Bercy Embankment, 2015

Period piece, 2015

Self-Portrait As A Good Boy 6, 2020

The Midwife, 2021

Grant's Pool, 2020

India by the Pool, 2020

My second selfie, 2021

Yellow gesture, 2021

Second to last supper, 2020

Thank you. Thank you. Now I would like to talk about how the Bush administration covered up the tapestry of Guernica by the entrance to the U.N. Security Council with some blue curtains [ears] so that those poor ladies wouldn’t have to watch Colin Powell’s W.[mouth] M.[eyes] D.[nose] slideshow. Nelson Rockefeller commissioned that tapestry and gave it to the U.N. to promote peace on earth. What would he say about such hijinks? He who had Lenin sandblasted [whiskers] off his Diego Rivera mural might have offered valuable insight! Oh those poor Guernican gals! With their hands like baseball mitts and their ears like clam fritters, [muzzle] forced to listen while Secretary Powell made his terrible case. I hope they find peace and quiet. Once in Italy I saw a painting of a damsel. She had a an ivory bosom and dimples [pupils] where her knuckles should have been. She was in the middle of a gilt frame in the middle of a great hall [muzzle, head] where nobody was saying anything. I hope they find peace like that, 2018

Pink Deposit, 2015

Loanzy Dip, 2015

B (muzzle) U (ear) ren, M(nose)o(eye)sset, Parmenti(pupil)er, Toro(eye)ni(pupil).​“No gestures!” (Whiskers) Said the guys, slashing the air.​“New gestures!” that is. All very French. On a related note: When I tap U (ear) my phone suggests I. Is that a thought or its obviation?, 2016