Sean Landers an American contemporary artist known for his use text and humor in painting, film, and sculpture. Often coming from personal writings, Landers’s motifs include a clown’s harrowing journey at sea, William Hogarth paintings, and animals covered in tartan patterns. “It’s no secret that Magritte’s ‘vache’ period had a huge impact on me. I’ve done over a hundred paintings based on that period,” he has said. Born in 1962 in Springfield, MA, he went on to receive a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA from Yale School of Art, where he met John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage. After finishing school, he moved to New York and embarked on a number of writing projects which slowly...