Sean Karemaker

Sean Karemaker moved to Vancouver six years ago to work in the video game industry but what he found on the streets of Vancouver became far more interesting to him. His early single panel comics, Astronaut Journal, featured his unique outlook in observing people in Vancouver. Over time the comics evolved into full size graphic novels and the work became popular in the underground comics scene and began to attract the attention of galleries. Karemaker’s work continues to evolve and change. Surreal imagery and compositions are employed along with everyday, mundane events of the human experience. Their effect is disarmingly personal. Karemaker has recently been focused on large narrative-based compositions that express love and love lost, a fear of growing old and feelings of nostalgia.