about
In her decades-spanning practice, Monica Seaberry has explored personal experiences through painting using different materials and mediums to add dimension. Originally from Chicago, The Chicago School of artist’s intense colors have always influenced her work. Monica’s early work was used as a means of dealing with problems and tragedies in young life through comedy. In her work in the 1980s she created colorful artworks of events that actually happened in her life. Monica employed forms, figures and props that were comic book-like in their simplicity. Monica added depth to paintings by adding flat layers of shapes to the background.
Later works moved to an introspective mood, more about the artist’s interior life yet retaining the comic–book forms and colors to depict emotions, actions and spirits.
Though she retained the comic book shapes and colors in later work, Monica no longer depicted personal experiences. Here, she created an experience for the viewer, by taking comics to another level, using sparkle, glitter and other kitschy materials to drive the work. Monica finds humor in her concern with things that bling. She uses symbolism like fringe, crystal and glitter on forms that are reduced to symbolic shapes.
Monica owns a graphic design studio in DuPont Circle, Washington DC, that stresses bright color and geometry in projects.