Sean Duffy: The Grove

Sean Duffy’s newest installation seeks to gather people in a highly participatory experience. The Grove consists of 18 turntables, each linked to 20 speakers suspended from the ceiling. A selection of albums by instrumental and vocal performers at each turntable allows participants to interactively change the sound environment. With close to 400 speakers, the installation creates a canopy of sound from a collective-community orchestration of ever-evolving musical compositions.

About the Artist Sean Duffy was born in 1966, in San Diego, and currently lives and works in Newhall, California. Duffy received his B.A. in Visual Arts and Political Science from the University of California at San Diego and his M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine. The artist has recently exhibited solo exhibitions at the Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany; Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles; California 101 Building, San Francisco; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, California; Howard House, Seattle; and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California. His work has been included in the select group exhibitions: Greetings from the American Dream, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California; Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York; California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Black Belt, Studio Museum, Harlem; Remix/Experimenter, Museum of Modern Art, San Salvador.

Sean Duffy: The Grove