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Live Transmission Drawings
"An aspect of living catches
my interest and I begin to
work, approaching life as a
problem solver whose job
it is to pay attention and to
render ideas visible."
– Morgan O’Hara
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This 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 the arbitrary oppositions between abstract and figurative art, between purely gestural expression and documentary intent, creating narrative work which results in a final product that 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.
Morgan O’Hara (b. Los Angeles 1941) was raised in
an international community in post-war Japan. Her
practice researches vital movement of living beings
through drawing.
She earned a Master’s Degree in Art from California
State University at Los Angeles, had her first solo
exhibition in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts in
Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978.
In 1989 she began doing performative drawing in
international performance art festivals at the invitation
of Boris Nieslony, did her first site specific wall drawings
at De Fabriek in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and
began the practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art.
In 1997 O’Hara’s work was honored with a solo show
in the newly opened Drawing Room at the Drawing
Center in New York.
O’Hara maintained her studio in Europe for 25 years:
Paris, Berlin and 21 years in Italy. Now lives and works
in Venice and New York. Exhibits internationally.
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