KEVIN O'BRIEN

I am a proponent of Pan-Global, Industrial, Supra-Expressionism which utilizing materials from global industrial culture. I use bright colors used in textures on dull industrial materials. "Pan-Global" because all cultures have been absorbed into the Industrialscape. "Supra" because an attempt is made to make the expressionistic content real, very real, by accentuating it's physical characteristics. The result is gleaming, energetic snippets of life forms.

The energy is sympathetic to rock and roll (e.g., jimi hendrix), r & b and/or jazz music (e.g., Coltrane). A new primitive kind of "carpentry" skills are used to hold the various materials together, in mixed media and installations (some of the installations date back to the '70's). 
 
I do not feel that use of the materials of painting has been exhausted, or that art now must explore new materials/media to be valid. Finally, the political and socio-political world are foreign to my art. 

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Education:

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting:  University Of Massachusetts, Cum Laude

Studied with John Grillo, a student of Hans Hoffman, and acccompanied him to New York City, visiting galleries, museums and attending various gallery events.

Shows:

My work was selected to be in the Parallax Art Fair, May 2012 and then I was invited to SM'ART Mediterranean Contemporary and Abstract Art Fair