Jeannie O'Connor
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Silver Lining, 2021, 46" x 30"
metallic print from painted film collage, painted frame, metallic paint, ribbon, de-silvered mirror |
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Jeannie O'Connor:
I Miss the Movies |
I Miss the Movies, 2021, 46" x 30" x 3”
Mirrors and Niches, 2021, 16" h x 60" w, detail
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Jeannie O'Connor: Embedded Narratives at Transmission Gallery in Oakland, CA
Mirrors and Niches, 2021, 16" h x 60”w, detail
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Summer Storm in Noho, 2018, 38" x 48
California Burning, 2021, 46" x 30" x 3”
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O'Connor's painted film collage series from residency in India
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right: Bebop on 23rd, 2020, 34" x 42"
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Jeannie O’Connor works from her Magnolia Street studio, not far from Transmission Gallery, often photographing the neighborhood, rich in complex urban realities. Other subjects take her farther afield, to burned out California landscapes or far away travels.
While some photographic series remain strictly that, O’Connor takes certain photos into the studio to further develop the imagery, often incorporating architectural elements while beautifully blurring the line between painting and photography in a layered exploratory approach that defies categorization. Embedded Narratives includes several of these pieces, recent and early de-silvered mirror and mixed media works focused on locations from Oakland to India, eloquent and intriguing.
O’Connor’s long exhibition record includes many solo shows, international exhibitions and an extensive history of fellowships, awards and publications. Of special note, she was awarded the SECA award by SFMOMA and the Phelan award in Photography.
Her work is in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Bancroft Library and many private collections.
More about Jeannie O'Connor
Statement:
I graduated from UC Berkeley with an MA in Painting. I work with the photographic image, doing portraits and urban landscapes. With some of my imagery, I combine the photographic image with paint , pastel and collage. The photographic image is a fixed element, while the paint and collage are mutable. Working on clear film enables me to see through the thin veneer of the photographic image to the layers of paint and pastel below, offering a slightly skewed reality. In the assemblages, architectural imagery is set into salvaged doors and mirror frames to create a resonance between the image and the object. I have taken portraits throughout my career, and the 4 x 5 polaroid Type 55 self portrait process came out a need to find a suitable way to work in sensitive situations . |
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 Invitation Program , 50 years”,City Museum, 9/11-10/09 2018 Made in Talavera, Museum of Ceramics Ruiz de Luna, Talavera, Spain 03/15-04/30 2016 4th Biennale of Fine Art Photography, Berlin , October Artists in Residence, School of Art, Talavera, Spain;May 26-June 12 2013 Recent Work, Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India March 2-22 2008 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London 2007 Dulwich Art Fair, London, England 2002 First to See the Light, Quay School of Art, Wanganui, New Zealand 1994 Foto Colorate, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan 1992 Photoarts, Jeanne O’Connor, Schloss Heidelberg,, Germany SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Jeannie O’Connor, Los Medanos College, April 17-May 17, Pittsburg, CA 2013 "For the Birds”, 2015, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA; Nov. 11-Jan. 19 2007 “Salvage”, Caffe Museo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2002 India Revisited, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery Jeannie O’Connor, Photo Collage, Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University 2000 The Space Between, Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco 1995 Salvage and Image, Bank of AmericaWorld Headquarters, Plaza Gallery, SF Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco Susan Spiritus Gallery, Costa Mesa 1991 K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco 1990 Bank of America, Concourse Gallery, San Francisco 1988 New Hand Colored Images, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach 1986 Jeannie O’Connor , Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS 2019 Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery; Lens Culture Juror’s award, Karen McQuaid, Photographers Gallery, London Emeryville Celebration of the Arts 2018 This Place, Berkeley Art Center, 02/03-03/04, Curated by Maria Porges 2018 -13 Artmarket, KALA Gallery, May 15-18, Fort Mason, San Francisco 2017 Digital Art?Power of the Pixel, Berkeley Central Passages, Berkeley CA Nasty Girl Exhibition, New York, January 7-10 2017-2005 30th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibit, October 7-30, Emeryville, CA Family Portraits, Richmond Art Center, Jan 12-March 3, Juror’s Award 2014 Art of the Digital, April 14-May 14, San Francisco City College Art Gallery, SF. Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, 1/10-3/8, Schneider Museum, Ashland, Or Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, Ca 9/5-11/17 2013 New Media Combinations, Berkeley Art Center, 9/6-11/17 Peaceable Kingdom: Animals Real and Imagined, Bedford Gallery, March 3-May 19 2012 photola, Susan Spiritus Gallery, January 18-20 Death is the Destination, August 9-September 21, Welch Galleries, GSU, Atlanta GA Digital Mixed Media, Petaluma Arts Center, June 29-September 9th 2011-14 artMRKT San Francisco, Concourse Exhibition Center, May 19-22 2011 Systems of Collecting, KALA Gallery, May 19-July 2, Curator: Lauren Davies Art of the Line, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Feb 10-March 19, First Prize Black and White and Shades of Grey, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, May 3-31 Habitat, Explorations of Home and Shelter in Contemporary Art, Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, Feb. 24-May13 , Carrie Lederer /Steve Pon 2010 Fine Art Photography:Beyond Digital, Petaluma Arts Center, Mar13-Ap 25 2009 Bioneers Conference, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael Printing on the Cutting Edge, Alameda Museum, Alameda 2008 Quiet Spaces, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Feb 6-March 14 2008-6 photoLA, January 19-22, 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica 2005 absoluteart gallery, San Marino, California 2003 Color Selections, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach 2001 Contemporary Photogravure, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 1998 Material Matters, Gensler Architecture, San Francisco 1996 K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco 1995 Special Voices, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa 1993 K Kimpton Gallery 1990 Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco 1989 Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Painting and Photography, Susan Spiritus Gallery Four Directions, Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco 1988 Primary States, Marymount Manhattan College, New York 1985 Alternative Processes, CEPA Gallery, Buffulo, New York 1984 Color in Summer, Brooklyn Museum of Art Open Portfolio, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco 1983 Altered Images: Two Approaches, College of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Belmont, Eight by Ten, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach 1982 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art / SECA Awards in Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1981 Phelan Awards in Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco LA Municipa EDUCATION 1969 M.A. in Painting, University of California, Berkeley 1967 B.A. in Art, University of California, Berkeley FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2019 Lensculture Juror’s Award in Portrait series, Karen McQuaid, Photogaphers Gallery, London 2018 NEH Purchase Award, James Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library , Aids Self Portrait Series Honorable Mention Awards , International Photography Awards, NY Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait Series 2016 Artist in Residence, Escuela de Arte de Talavera, Toledo , Spain April 4-May 5 Family Portraiture, Richmond Art Center, Juror’s Award 2014 Best of ASMP –American Society of Media Photographers 2012 Artist Residency, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India Feb. 14-March 15 2011 Best in Show, Art of the Line, Feb. 10-March 19, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2008 Art in Public Places Purchase Award, City of Emeryville 2002-6 Artist in Schools Grant, Emery Schools, Emeryville 1984-6 Artists in Schools Grant, California Arts Council 1982 SECA Award, ( Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( Painted film) Phelan Award in Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco ( painted film) 1979-82 Artists in Communities Grant, California Arts Council PUBLIC ART 2015 Courtyard Installation, Higby Apartment Building, Berkeley , CA 2013 Lifelong Medical Care, West Berkeley Health Center 2009-10 Berkeley Art Commission , Berkeley City Hall 2006 Kathak Dancers, Art Along the Avenue Program, Emeryville Public Art 2004 Alameda County Photography Survey: Highland Hospital Campus, Oakland PUBLICATIONS 2020 Tricycle Magazine, 2/2020 2019 Bruce Aidells, Tyson foods website 2016 Telemundo , José Luis Orozco :Grammy Awards ( television) Red Artenet, Spain 2014-15 Photo District News ( PDN) , Education issue , Fall 2014, May 2015 2013 A Lyric Architecture : New Classicists, Published by Images ZYZZVA, Spring Issue Inquiring Mind Fall issue Tricycle Magazine, Winter issue 2012 aktuell Magazine, May 2012, Berlin, Germany 2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Seca Award Anniversary Catalog KQED Arts Ready,Set,Collect:Systems of Collecting at KALA Art Institute, June Collective Wisdom at KALA Gallery , East Bay Express, de Witt Cheng, June 2010 aktuell Magazine, November 2010, Berlin, Germany Bayern 2 Public Radio website, 05-08 September 2010 San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday October 24, 2010 2009 American Bungalow magazine, No. 61, “ Learning from Greene and Greene” 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine: The House That Sausage Built 2000 Hue Magazine, June 2000, Guild.com SELECTED COLLECTIONS Bancroft Library Photography Archive, U.C. Berkeley Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris San Francisco Public Library Archive, San Francisco Brooklyn Museum of Art Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco University of California, Mt. Zion Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Clinics Highland Hospital Jay Geller e bay Tom Steyer Michael Ton, Hong Kong Stranahan Collection Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro Chris Columbus David and Lucille Packard Foundation Rubin Family Collection Armstrong Steel Morton and Amy Friedkin David and Lucille Packard Foundation Jill Hersh , John Keker, Susie Thompkins, Bruce Aidells Armstrong Steel Sigmund and Ellie Mae Anderman Donald and Raine Rude Dreyers and Edy’s Grand Ice Cream Ellington Building, Jack London Square, Oakland |
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TRANSMISSION GALLERY
OAKLAND 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA 94612 Open Thurs-Sat, 12 to 5 pm till 8 pm on the first Friday of the month and by appointment Accessibility: This a 2nd floor art gallery, accessible by stairs. |
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