British/ American artist, born in London, 1974 and based in NYC, Paul Seftel is a constant artist and traveller.
London and Manhattan being his native cities, he spent years living in Edinburgh, New Mexico and Colorado, always studying Art, mysticism, yoga, alchemy, geology and the building arts before moving back to NYC in 2007.
Exploring the nature of consciousness for the past 20 years, art is the form and tool for his self expression.
This discovery and dissolution of self is a part of the work and the life of the artist, a solitary pursuit reflecting the deep nature of feelings and contentions present in oneself and the world. What appears is a bridge, a space of color where shifts in seeing occur, transforming essence and atmosphere into physical worlds of a transformational nature with an emotionally provocative spirit.
Education
1987/1992 University College School, London
1994/95 Edinburgh University & Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.
2003/04 School of Applied Arts, Denver CO.
2008 SVA, NYC Public Art Residency
Solo Exhibitions
Light from a Stone, 2012, The Ninth Wave 2011, Post History 2011 - PS Project Space, New York, NY.
Color Shift 2012, Alchemical Skins 2010 -Baco Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Totems 2009, Red03 Gallery, Barcelona
Pigment and Patina, 2007 Midoma Gallery, New York, NY
Soke Fine Art, Vail Valley, CO 2006
Globeville Studios, Denver CO 2005, 2004, 2003,
Woburn Gallery, London WC1 2001
The Engineer, London NW1 2001
Group Shows
The Traces, PSPS, NYC, 2013,
Young Collectors exhibit, Leila Heller Gallery; NYC 2012-13
'Global positioning system' SVA gallery, NYC; 2012
Traveling Light, PSPS, NYC, 2012,
'Its a small small world,' Family Business, NYC; 2012
The Four Elements, PS Project Space , NYC, 2012
Benefit for Ai Wei Wei, White Box, NYC; 2012
'No Comment' Loft in the Red Zone, 23 Wall St, NYC; 2011
Post US Painting, Broadway gallery NYC, 2011
Geronimo Intervention -The Armory Fairs NYC- VOLTA, Pulse, ADAA, 2011
RHM Benefit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC 2011
CFDA Council of Fashion Designers of America Lounge Exhibit, NYC, 2010
Alliance for the Arts Auction, Christies, NYC 2010;
Art Santa Fe; Volume Black Gallery NYC 2010
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'That Gallery' Hong Kong, 2010
Seven Seas Gallery, Nantucket, MA 2010
KiptonArt Santa Monica CA, 2010
Red03 Galleria Barcelona, Spain 2010
Artists for Dalai Lama, Frankfurt Germany, 2009
Lana Santorelli Gallery NYC 2009
AFI Times Sq Building, United Creators, NYC; 2009
Bang & Olufsen, United Creators, NYC Frankfurt & Istanbul 2009
SVA Public Art Residency Exhibit, NYC, 2008
Paper works’BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington NY 2008,
B &O Munich, United Creators,Frankfurt: Istanbul. 2008
Finding lost Time’ NYC Art in Odd Places. 2008
Lana Santorelli Gallery NYC, 2008
Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery, NYC 2007
Kolok Gallery, North Adams, MA 2007
Soke Fine Art. Vail CO 2006
Selected Press
Paintings in Joshua Bell's collection featured In Vogue
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