Sean McGinley is a trend-setter. He cultivates and rehearses various personae at Elbow Room, where he is often found wearing a wig, carrying a big drink, and being friends with everyone. Camo parachute pants, hi-vis orange vests, this fashionista can pull it off. Sean mines language from books and his drawings often feature interesting poetic constructions and stick figure renderings, partially submerged by the rising tide of a color field. In 2025, Sean discovered a new medium, becoming a prolific, skillful, maker of collages. He regularly confounds art facilitation staff by creating gorgeous interpolations of found image, neon tape, and posca markings only to bury them just as rapidly in a new layer of images. He is sometimes exacting, creating spare and poetic arrangements of images and precisely coloring in subjects of the photos he collects with pastel paint pen, other times indiscriminately covering a whole canvas with packing tape seeming totally unattached to the layer beneath, the only guarantee in his Sean’s process is process itself. What results are densely layered, tape esconsced, amalgams of found image, marks, stickers and tape. His collages are closer to a of visual palimpsest, and a reminder that for some artists that “done” is not the destination. A man of many talents, DJ Sean is known to start a party with looping vocal recordings and electronic beats, mashing up Elbow Room’s own version of Berlin nightclub sounds. It’s no wonder Sean is an integral part of the Video Tones collective, collaborating on screen or contributing to sound tracks. Sean McGinley continues to charm and surprise by creating original artist books, and never failing to bring the hype to Elbow Room.