Prism Tattoo (comprised of found doors, windows, and paint), by Sean O’Meallie, is an expansive installation that evokes the open sky, a space where rainbows appear. Throughout history and across cultures, different meanings have been attributed to this natural phenomenon that becomes visible when sunlight refracts through raindrops. While many mythologies and personal connections are associated with rainbows, the magical experience of an ephemeral spectrum across the sky is one available to all, with no barriers to access. O’Meallie states that he “wanted to coordinate multiple symbologies collaboratively, with ideas of variation, inclusion, happenstance, opportunity, movement and craft.”
Sean O'Meallie is an artist based in Colorado Springs. He has a background in higher education and toy invention. He produces large-scale public works on occasion but prefers making small one-of-a-kind works in painted wood in his home studio where he plays with existentialist dread and human comedy to popular effect using what he learned in the toy business and that one semester as a Psych major. He’s known for making colorful sculptures of balloons, guns, sliced bread, and psychedelic fruit.
Prism Tattoo is on loan to GOCA, courtesy of the artist. Prism Tattoo is available for purchase, contact GOCA for more details: gallery@uccs.edu
