The Salem Art Gallery

FEBRUARY 2025-JULY 2025

seaN @crpfctry is a California-based artist, poet, and practitioner of Chaos Magick. when he is not showing Fine Art in galleries from coast to coast he is producing T-shirts for his brand CRPFCTRY, making zines for the art crew Chimp Bone Death, writing and creating poetry videos and magick tutorials, and hosting a monthly Sigil Ritual for the occult order known as the Reality Manipulation Service. This collection is a compilation of seaN’s surrealist abstract paintings representing his individualized practice of Satanism, Occultism, and “Chaos Magic”. 

ON VIEW SEPT 2-NOV 11TH (Extended to January 10th)

CROOK concerns those who hold great power over us as individuals, and who can freely lead us towards or away from salvation because of our position within their lives. Our history is full of ‘shepherds,’ leaders among us, for better or for worse, that herd us like cattle and steer us closer to their personalized agendas. Those who are influential can sway us with their guiding hand, and alter our overall decision-making, especially in our highly politicized modern world. CROOK showcases all manner of shepherds, both righteous and serpentine.

Scott Hayden is a New England based illustrator and writer that utilizes narrative to make sense of a world that can otherwise be enormous and terrifying. He believes that stories are not only how humans have communicated with one another for centuries, but are how we share our individual experiences, and empathize with those around us both past and present. Hayden recently graduated from Montserrat College of Art.