Detail of an original mixed media painting in watercolor, gouache and ink by emerging artist MJ Seal

Nascent

Detail of a large art installation piece by MJ Seal made from sackcloth stained with charred bones that resembles a giant cluster of dark gray puffball mushrooms with extending roots emerging from a wall

Gray Seep

Swarm

Swarm

Detail of an abstract acrylic painting on a scrap of canvas by MJ Seal

Monad VII

Monad VI

Close up detail of an abstract paper mache sculpture by MJ Seal that resembles a black thory mass of monstrous faces with glinting orange and blue eyes

The Forest of Cold, Rainy Winter Nights

Close up detail of an abstract acrylic painting by MJ Seal that resembles a giant protist covered with tentacles and full of eyes

Monad V

Free living organism- The starting point- The scrap of drop cloth this started out on had a very coarse texture … More

Close up detail of an abstract sculpture by MJ Seal made from sackcloth and rope that resembles a giant chartreuse green and reddish brown sea fan

Searching Form

Like a mass of little tendrils reaching out in all directions- After the last update post on this piece I … More

Close up of an assemblage piece by MJ Seal made of various plastics that resembles a colorful, translucent sea creature

Sea Form II

It just emerged from a primordial plastic soup- I’ve had these ideas for abstract, marine forms made from plastic detritus … More

Full view of an abstract sculpture made from sackcloth by MJ Seal that resembles a giant, glistening, blackish brown centipede

Nightcrawlers

The varnish on these little monsters finally dried so it was time for a photo shoot- After initial sculpting on … More