The central focus of Carleen Sheehan’s work is the intensity of contemporary space, with its accelerated temporal shifts and collaged experiences. Sheehan works with a range of media, combining drawing, painting, and photography to create densely layered surfaces embedded with image fragments and material shifts in color and light. She works to create open-ended narratives that depict particular moments of distilled chaos.
Her on-going photography projects document the natural environment from an intimate perspective, celebrating small fragments of natural ephemera: the movement and density of water, shifts in light, color, and atmosphere. Sheehan has travelled to the High Arctic region and plans to visit Antarctica in the coming year to continue her work commemorating melting glacial ice.
