The Earlville Opera House is pleased to host an Artist Talk by current exhibiting artist Maureen O’Leary on Saturday, September 30 at 1pm.
Maureen is a painter and photographer who makes work about nature, ordinariness, daydreams and the idiosyncratic way people create their surroundings. She will talk about her current exhibit hanging in the West Gallery through October 28. Maureen will discuss her work in the context of contemporary figurative painting and how she draws on both biographical and social inspiration to make her paintings. This event is free and open to the public.
Maureen was educated at Yale University and at the Art Students League and the International Center for Photography in New York. She has recently shown work at Wayfarers Gallery, Bushwick, New York, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey, and the Power Plant Gallery, Durham, North Carolina. She is a former recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship in painting from the Foundation des Etats-Unis, Paris, and a 2015 finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron award in photography. Maureen is based in Mount Sinai, New York and New York City.
According to Maureen, “My work examines domesticity as well as ordinary, unremarkable events. Sometimes this examination involves observing how we collect objects around us and what we select to qualify as civilized versus natural – what is rugged, and what is safe. I am also interested in how we see the wild from close or afar, and I wish to scrutinize reality for its humor, awkwardness, and charm. I examine the way humans divide up their surroundings - land and even species - as well as how wild things are constrained, particularly in contemporary suburban culture. I am particularly interested to observe people engaged in ordinary activities with objects they treasure, and to observe the home environment, including abstractions derived from it, and the natural laws behind how we reshape the world to make a home within it.”
Please join us as we celebrate and learn more about the talents of this incredible artist. More information about Maureen can be found at: www.maureenoleary.com or info@maureenoleary.com. For details about Maureen’s current exhibit or the Artist Talk, please contact the Earlville Opera house at (315) 691-3550 or visit www.earlvilleoperahouse.com. The Opera House is located at 18 East Main Street, in Earlville, NY.
EOH events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and through the generosity of EOH members.
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