Sean Norvet’s new exhibition is the next step in his continuing process of deconstructing and disrupting current and past conventions of figurative painting.

While working in the classical medium of oil paint, Norvet draws inspiration from the chaotic digital and print information overload of the current age. His work seems to relax, improbably in chaos, and discover arrangements that become cohesive and sensible (even when they are unlikely).

Norvet explores the dynamic tension between flat and dimensional objects and makes them perform a strange elegant dance. The low shares space with the high and clichés transform into a new language where it asks questions we haven’t yet thought to ask.

No element has less or more weight than the other. Norvet presents ideas and arrangements as they come in a place where everything finds a balance (even if it is dazzlingly precarious). He shoves opposite puzzle pieces together until they harmonize. He repeats elements as if the repetition is part of an invisible code. Slapstick ephemera meet divine forms of nature — he pulls and pushes from drab reality until it achieves a psychedelic euphoria.

Norvet celebrates the massive overload of information and finds the beauty in all of it. Like generations of painters before him he asks only that we stop, look, and enter.

Norvet was born in 1987 in Los Angeles, CA and graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 2013. This is his first solo exhibition with Richard Heller Gallery.