past exhibition

MORGAN O'HARA, LIVE-TRANSMISSION DRAWINGS, 2020-2022, EXHIBITION VIEW BRIGITTE MARCH ICA STUTTGART APRIL 2023

MORGAN O'HARA

PERFORMANCE – ZEICHNUNGEN

REVIEW 

EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2022, LITHUANIA

EXHIBITION 22/4/23 - 02/06/23

LIFE-BASED CONCEPTUAL ART

My work is culturally contextualized in the practice of drawing. In 1981 I began tracking the trajectory of peoples' movements while they were engaged in life's activities. This work has become a large series of performative drawings called LIVE TRANSMISSION. The work is culturally contextualized in the practice of drawing as a fundamental human endeavor and is continuous with the time-honored practice of drawing from life. It requires connection, direct observation and LIVE TRANSMISSION. I draw from and build on the historical continuum of the field. Through this work, I transcend arbitrary "oppositions" between abstract and figurative art, between purely gestural expression and documentary intent, creating narrative work which results in a final product which is not figurative. The drawings themselves become a third actor or mediator in the experience. That which was beneath notice becomes concretized on the page as the paper receives the image. The method I have developed requires close observation and actual drawing in real time with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands. I condense the movement I observe into accumulations of graphite line, combining the controlled refinement of classical drawing with the sensuality of spontaneous gesture. M.O'H

LIFE-TRANSMISSION DRAWING — WIND OF HOPE, KAUNAS 2022

HANDWRITING THE CONSTITUTION — KAUNAS 2022, CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2022