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Mary O’Connor (she/her)
@moconnorg_art
moconnorgart@gmail.com

I like to think of my work as a garden. A place where complex emotions, sensations, and questions can be planted and cultivated. A place found in the recesses of personal spirituality and interiority. This garden is for rest, for love, and for prayer. All that I could ever offer. It is a meditation for when the deep emotions and tangible experiences of life meet the spiritual. I work to visualize and materialize this imaginary garden through the means of painting and printmaking. Through the abstraction of light and geometric shapes, I communicate these visceral sensations when language refuses to make sense of them - creating a space that cannot be easily and quickly described, but intuitively understood. An intuition rooted in inspirations and aspirations that exist to bridge a more universal sense of being and my Catholic upbringing. These motivations inform the decisions I make throughout the creative process. Decisions in regard to the manipulation and interaction of geometric forms in the presence and absence of light and color. These decisions serve to spark a deeply emotional and indescribable connection with the viewer, so that these works can become an experience in and of themselves. These spaces, though potentially confusing, exist to slow us down and to give pause from our daily lives.




This photograph documents an oil painting painted on panel. It hangs on a white gallery wall. The artwork is yellow, brown, and orange. The key is of three circles overlapping one another. A gradient from white to brown surrounds these circles. Dark, thick lines surround the three circles and the gradient. This photograph documents an oil painting painted on canvas. It hangs on a white gallery wall. The artwork ranges from a dark red to white. The image displayed is of twelve overlapping circles with white lines painted on top. This photograph documents three oil paintings of the same height and width. Each hang on a white gallery wall. The paintings are all painted in green and black paint. Each painting has forms made of white, thin lines. This photograph documents a lithograph print, which hangs on a white gallery wall. The artwork is placed within a wooden frame. The key image is a monochromatic brown-black color with a transparent light blue second layer on top. The key image depicts two squares within a dark border. The second layer is of three overlapping circles. This photograph documents a relief print, which hangs on a white gallery wall. The artwork is placed within a wooden frame. The image is black and white. There are rectangular and circular shapes outlined in black. The largest rectangle in the center has a black and white checkered pattern in the middle. This photograph documents a relief print, which hangs on a white gallery wall. The artwork is placed within a wooden frame. The image is made with black ink. The background is split in half by black and white. Two circular forms meet at the center of the paper. A black and white checkered pattern is the middle of these circle forms.

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