Play Date - Solo Exhibition with Hillyer Art Center

My words: 

“Play Date” explores childhood landscapes through camp, craft, and humor. The immersive set of candy colored, fuzztastic objects echo forms of both playground equipment and O’Brien’s memory of her own awkward, pubescent body. Plush “paintings” and skins emerge from the nostalgic and kitschy process of latch hook rug making. This technique is employed as a vehicle to grapple with notions of femininity, domesticity, and craft, as well as for its titillating and tactile physical qualities.  


Other people's words:

Slinky and the Abacus - Terrain Biennial

Hiding beneath a drawing of a twist and a wavy grid lie a slinky caught mid somersault and an impractical abacus. The quasi figurative sculptures evoke notions of childhood play and wonder by calling to mind toys that transcend both time and geography and can be spotted in doctor’s offices, play rooms, and schools. Interested in the discarded and neglected, I scavenged their skeletons from dumpsters and have since cut, twisted, morphed, and coat them in an impressionistic, rock-hard flesh punctuated with glossy-glazed ceramic appendages.

M.T. Skirt No.6

My commitment to wind activated sculpture and its connection to the environment has been a passion of mine during my entire career.
 
My sculptures address nature (wind, light and movement and in this case buoyancy) and are appropriate for a variety of outdoor settings. Floating works of mine have been displayed in Druid Reservoir and the Baltimore Harbor. Kinetic sculptural elements indicate the rotation of the earth, velocity of the wind and mark time.
 

Luxury Items - sculptural works

This collection of works includes sculptural pieces that borrow from domestic, decorative, and functional objects. All of the forms and subjects aim to raise questions about what we buy, our assumptions of “good” and “bad” taste and how these are all markers of social and economic status. Many pieces incorporate the wall or utilize high relief elements as a way to connect back to the two-dimensional works and to create a larger visual vocabulary.

Monuments

This series of miniature paintings began as simple demonstrations of color and atmospheric perspective done for my students in Moleskine sketchbooks. Some are completely invented, while others are based on real places I've visited in England. The objects typically relate to an event or object from that particular day.
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