Beverly & Sam Ross Gallery

SEAN LATIF HEISER: Time is a Hearer

November 7, 2025 – January 9, 2026

Using abstraction as a framework, Sean Heiser’s paintings shift between imagined landscapes and architectures, often using symbolism and abstracted imagery collected from life as a way to insert his own lived-experience and memories into broader compositions.

Sean Latif Heiser (b.1990) is a Malaysian-born artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2017 and his MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2023. In 2023, he was invited to hotelpupik, an international artist residency program in Schiefling, Austria. He was an MFA Live/Work residency fellow at Loghaven Residency in Knoxville, TN, in 2022, and in 2019 was a resident at Anderson Center in Redwing, Minnesota. He has exhibited work internationally, with recent exhibitions at Arcade Arts, Nashville, TN, Ortega Y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY, hotelpupik in Schiefling, Austria, and The Alice Wilds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His work was published in New American Paintings in 2022.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I approach painting as a place to mix form and color with thought, memory, fantasy, and reality. I’m interested in the idea of world-building, and how non-objective painting can be used in ways that are resonant of, and shift between, landscapes, architectures, and the subjective. I continue to be concerned with the act of looking and its relationship to perception and imagination. and dreaming. I see painting as a mediary between myself and less certain things.

The Beverly + Sam Ross Gallery is located on the lower level of Plough Memorial Library in the center of campus on the Buckman Quadrangle, easily accessible from the Central Avenue parking lot and the East Parkway entrance. All exhibits are free and open to the public.

CONTACT

Scott A. Carter, MFA
Assistant Professor and Gallery Coordinator • (901) 321-3243 • scarte20@cbu.edu