About S.E.

Bio.

S.E. Cobble is a surrealist artist based in Kentucky. They were born in Erlanger, south of Cincinnati, Ohio, and now reside in Louisville, Kentucky. Their most commonly used media is oil and acrylic paint on multiple surfaces. These include but are not limited to stretched canvas, wood, vinyl records, and denim clothing. S.E. graduated from the University of Louisville with a Masters of Education in Counseling and Personnel Services with a concentration in Art Therapy in May 2022 and is set to become a full time art therapist this summer.

Artist Statement.

The most fascinating aspect of art for me is the fact that artists have the ability to create anything we’d like. Art allows us to push the limits of our reality to create anything our mind desires. I aim to show this in my work through the use of surrealism to create dream like scenes that you cannot or would not see in everyday life. I do not want to simply mimic the world around me but I want to take it and transform it into something unknown and curious because art allows me to. I want the viewer to consider what happened before and after the moment in time that I present them. My work also explores animating inanimate objects by giving them faces or eyes. I use this as a form of personification and to look at how people view these objects once animated.

I also like to bridge the gap between “high end” and “low end” art by painting on nontraditional materials like vinyl records, denim clothing, and other various household materials. I want to challenge what is considered “professional” by creating completed works on nontraditional surfaces.