Why So Panicky?

Sean Landers’s word paintings recount the artist’s hopes, fears, musings, and feelings with a directness that is frequently hilarious, occasionally hysterical, and, more often than not, honest to a fault. Landers “says” things in his paintings that most people only think about, and the results are both shocking and completely recognizable. In works such as Why So Panicky? Landers brings to the surface the alternating layers of ambition, insecurity, supreme confidence, despair, and dreams of immortality that are part and parcel of the artist’s life.