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* * Images like these came naturally. As a child, I made elaborately decorated paper hearts, in Easter egg colors, sprayed with perfume wrapped in Saran Wrap, trying endless ways to put together replicas of lilies of the valley and violets. At the same time, I was drawing pictures of men in science fiction machines that would alter them into superior beings like those I saw in bodybuilding magazines. Combining multiple images that relate to each other is always puzzling, but the imagery used reflect my anxieties of living in suburbia, and fantasies of being powerful and invulnerable. In this body of work the images overlap or are attached, and the relative sizes of the figures differ. Flowers, insects, birds are much larger than people, while the furniture can be smaller or larger. This creates a tension that would not otherwise exist. The men either clothed or nude are decorative, along with the fauna and inanimate objects, but they represent the ideal male physique (or at least what gay culture believes the ideal male should look like.) Yet these perfect beings are not masters of their environment, they are subject to the creatures and objects that surround them.

Selected Solo And Two Person Exhibits: 2007 Paul Seidell: 2007 National Queer Arts Festival, Three Dollar Bill Cafe, San Francisco, CA 2006 Paul Seidell: Gallery A3, Amherst, Massachusetts 2003 Phil Shinnick and Paul Seidell: Selected Works 2002-2003,
Earthdance, Plainfield, Massachusetts
1999 Paul Seidell: Exposed, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts
Selected Group Exhibits:

2005/2006 Gallery A3: Auction, Amherst, Massachusetts

2005 Gallery A3: Influences, Amherst, Massachusetts

2004 Gallery A3: Five Artists, Amherst, Massachusetts

2004 Northampton Center for the Arts: Paper Show, Northampton, Massachusetts

2004 Puppet Silhouettes: Dmitrius Spartos, Director, Northampton, Massachusetts

2004 Caffeine’s: Abstract Studies, West Springfield, Massachusetts

2002 APE Gallery: Guild Studio School Group Show, Northampton, Massachusetts

2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Program Oil Painting: Eye Candy, Providence, Rhode Island

2000 Pizzeria Paradiso: Two Artists, Northampton, Massachusetts

1998 George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum: Student Show, Springfield, Massachusetts
1997 Gallery Matrix: Emerging Artists Section, Provincetown, Massachusetts 1997 Muse Waterfront Gallery: Artist Folding Screen, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Collections:

P. Shinnick, NYC, Montreal T. Saternow, NYC, Mansfield, Connecticut C. Harwood, NYC E. Acker, Lenox, Massachusetts Dr. M. Rafati, Ohio S. Rafati, Houston E. Myles, NYC, San Diego, Provincetown D. Farely, Washington DC Collections (cont.): B. Punis, Provincetown M. Orr, Miami Beach S. Lappin, Hadley, Massachusetts A. Marinelli, NYC D. Baldeseri, Newport, Rhode Island H. Azar, Princeton, New Jersey G. Moquette, Plainville, Connecticut A. Martin, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts D. Spartos, San Francisco
Publications:

Jim Provenzano, Out and About, ‘N Synco, Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco, CA, May 3, 2007 Gregg Morrell, Art Scene, The Fate of Gallery A3 Hangs in Balance, The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, January 6, 2005 Gallery Walkers Take in the New Five - Art Show At Gallery A3, Arts and Leisure, Hampshire Gazette, Friday, August 13, 2004

Bonnie Wells, Soft Sculpture to Pickled Portraits, Five Artists Share Eclectic Show at Gallery A3, Arts and Leisure, Amherst-Bulletin, August 20, 2004 Anna-Maria Goosens, Putting on a Show, After Paint Brushes, Artists Need Elbow Grease, Funds to Show Work, Hampshire Gazette, August 1999 Murals:

East Works Healing Center, Easthampton, Massachusetts Caffeine’s West Springfield, Massachusetts G. Moquette Plainville, Connecticut H. Azar Princeton, New Jersey P. Alexoupolous, Summers, Connecticut
Performance Art:

1999 Iron Horse: live stage painting with Barry Kingston and the Screaming Souls, Northampton, Massachusetts
1999 Fat Cats: live stage painting with Barry Kingston and the Screaming Souls, Northampton, Massachusetts


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