I use a variety of media and found objects in my large-scale collaged paintings. 

Combined materials include antique bottles, rulers and ruled papers. 

Math, science (particularly biology,) and history texts are incorporated into the

collaged paintings.  I am concerned with what is knowable and what is unknowable.

And the interconnectedness of life.  Ideas of containment and measurement are

juxtaposed with codes of behavior and methods of perception.  Ritualistic behavior

and belief systems are on view.  Visual information is layered, half covered, and

sometimes completely hidden.  Words and text hint at themes and inspiration.

 

"No Two are Marked Alike,"  oil, mixed media, 2007

 

 

                                                

                  details, "Containable World," oil, mixed media, 2005

 

 

"Hurricane," oil, mixed media, 2007       "Babies are like Trees," oil, mixed media, 2006  

      "Birth," oil, mixed media, 2006          

 

"Here I Am,"  oil, mixed media, 2006                   detail  

 

 

              

           "Empty, Full,"  oil, mixed media, 2005                                                      detail

 

 

                                                  

"Evermore,"  oil, mixed media, 2006            "Extinct," oil, mixed media, 2007

 

         "How do I Measure?"  oil, mixed media, 2004                                         

 

 

 

       

"Flood Wall," oil, mixed media, 2007                        detail

 

   

"Safe Seal," details, oil, mixed media, 2003

 

 

   

"Subject, Object, Verb," detail,               "Shadows"  oil, mixed media on paper, 2008

oil, mixed media, 2003   

 

 

Ms. O’Connor’s artwork can also be viewed at www.artwellgallery.org/show.html