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Kathleen O'Connell
Website: www.kathleenoconnell.net
Instagram: @kathleen.a.oconnell
BIOGRAPHY
Kathleen O’Connell is an educator, printmaker, book artist, type and lettering enthusiast, pre-pandemic traveler, intra-pandemic mother, amateur garden grower, perpetual organizer and former ferry boat deckhand, all of which inform her artworks and artistic practice. She is a tenured Associate Professor (Print Media) at Middle Tennessee State University.
O’Connell is known for her prints, artist’s books, other works on paper and a regular creative practice that implement rich colors, patterns, text and forms all with attention to detail. Her works celebrate, meditate upon or evoke a foreign occupation of the familiar.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Since 2009, she has collaborated with artists/studios in Peru including the completion of multiple international collaborative artist’s books.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My prints, artist’s books and other works on paper implement rich colors, patterns, text and forms all with attention to detail. They explore the beautiful and complex relationship between the real and the imagined—in one place one thing, in another place another. The work uses texts gathered from messages, conversations, the news, books and translations that were misunderstood or reinterpreted with sentiment, to celebrate, meditate upon or evoke a foreign occupation of the familiar.
Images include four personal and one collaborative artist’s books. More books, prints, works on paper and objects are viewable at www.kathleenoconnell.net
ARTIST'S WORK
Inside Outside
2018
Digital printing on Moab Entrada Rag; imagery from red gouache drawings; Accordion fold, hand-bound artist’s book
11 x 4 x .75 inches (closed)
Inside Outside[detail]
2018
Digital printing on Moab Entrada Rag; imagery from red gouache drawings; Accordion fold, hand-bound artist’s book
11 x 4 x .75 inches (closed)
Difficult Loves (Amores Difíciles)
2015–2017
Ink jet print on paper; hardcover, accordion bound, artist's book
13 x 9.5 x .5 inches (closed)
Difficult Loves (Amores Difíciles) [detail]
2015–2017
Ink jet print on paper; hardcover, accordion bound, artist's book
13 x 9.5 x .5 inches (closed)
Difficult Loves (Amores Difíciles) [detail]
2015–2017
Ink jet print on paper; hardcover, accordion bound, artist's book
13 x 9.5 x .5 inches (closed)
Briefly a Spy
2014
Gouache on paper
9.75 x 5.5 x .75 inches (closed)
Briefly a Spy [detail]
2014
Gouache on paper
9.75 x 5.5 x .75 inches (closed)
Meditation in Traffic [composite view]
2014
Letterpress
4 x 2 x .5 inches (closed)
Raíces (collaborative book with TRESS.Taller de Grabado)
2017
Mixed Media (traditional printmaking techniques)
10 x 7 x .5 inches (closed)
Raíces (collaborative book with TRESS.Taller de Grabado) [detail]
2017
Mixed Media (traditional printmaking techniques)
10 x 7 x .5 inches (closed)
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