Browse this page for recent exhibits. The full listing is on my resume: O’Brien CV 2017
“Choice of Words” and “Magic Square of Words”
by Kathleen O’Brien
Illustrated Word
September – October 2018
reception October 21, 2 – 4
Woodford County Public Library
115 N. Main St. Versailles
This Kentucky Arts Council sponsored show will travel to 12 libraries around Kentucky from February 2017 – December 2018. Click here to view the slideshow of the work of 29 artists who incorporate text as a design element and to see the calendar of locations.
Feeling Blue
May 18 – July 8, 2018
Gallery Hop Reception
May 18, 5 – 8 pm
Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center
Community Gallery
141 East Main Street,
Lexington, KY 40507
Curated by Becky Neal Ochenkoski (tribeca trunk)
This show speaks to the other side of BLUE.
The Blue that makes you feel fabulous, gives you energy and calmness; all at the same time.
This show is all about the beauty that Blue gives to each of us everyday!
Orange Bellied Parrot and Rainbow Parrot details of panels, 20x16″ each by ©Kathleen O’Brien
Put a Bird on It
May 25 – June 30, 2018
reception June 1, 5:30 – 7 pm
Berea Arts Council
139 North Broadway Suite B, Berea, KY 40403
New Year, New Art
1.2 – 2.24, 2018
reception,
Friday, 1.19, 5 – 8 PM
Community Art Center
401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422
Holiday Market
11.17 – 12.23, 2017
reception,
Friday, 11.17, 5:30 – 7 PM
Community Art Center
401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422
“Messages, page 6″, altered book by Kathleen O’Brien, 9x7”
The Book Transformed
October 6 – November 11, 2017
Berea Arts Council
139 North Broadway Suite B, Berea, KY 40403
St. Joseph Berea Hospital
November 15 – January 3, 2018
225: Artists Celebrate Kentucky’s History
March 25 – Sept. 30, 2017
Kentucky Artisan Center
at Berea
200 Artisan Way
Berea KY
Kentucky Living article
The preservation of Kentucky stories, places and traditions has shaped its culture today. This exhibit includes over 60 works by 51 Kentucky artists who have recorded and celebrated numerous facets of Kentucky’s rich 225-year history. These works capture the essence of Kentucky – including its places, people, events, commerce, agriculture and the state’s unique flora and fauna. Accompanied by written stories and histories in each artist’s words, this exhibit entices the viewer visually and verbally.
Summer Study, watercolor, drawing, collage 9x12″, by Kathleen O’Brien
Kentucky Painters Invitational
July 5 – August 16, 2017
St. Joseph Berea Hospital
June 2 – July 1, 2017
Berea Arts Council
139 North Broadway Suite B, Berea, KY 40403
GRIDWORKS REVISITED!
3.17-5.12, 2017
Opening for Gallery Hop, March 17th, 5-8pm
New Editions Gallery
500 W. Short Street
Lexington KY
We’ve done this show before but not like this! Imagine 60 plus artists, over 120 paintings, any subject matter, all 12×12 and you have GRIDWORKS REVISITED! Join us for this fun show featuring some of Kentucky’s finest.
Kentucky Visions at the Capitol
2.1 – 3.31, 2017
Kentucky Arts Council
Capitol Annex
702 Capitol Avenue
Frankfort, KY
Click the KAC link to view the video of the work of 24 Kentucky artists on display.
Click here to read the Advocate Messenger article.
“Let Us Do Our Best Even If It Gets Us Nowhere”, watercolor, drawing, collage by Kathleen O’Brien, 22x30″ at Horizon: Contemporary Landscape, Community Arts Center”
Horizon: Contemporary Landscape will be on view during Annual Open Studios ARTTOUR, as Community Arts Center is #6 on the map of participants!
Click here to read the article in Advocate Messenger
HORIZON – Contemporary Landscape 2016
exhibit designed to test the limits of what we think of when we hear the word “landscape,” blurring the lines between the traditional and experimental
9.1 – 11.11, 2016
opening reception 9.9
from 5:30 – 7 pm
Community Art Center
401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422
Juror, Isaac Powell, Professor at Eastern Kentucky University, chose 40 works out of over 230 submitted works from 21 states and Canada.
Firmly Rooted
addressing our ongoing, symbiotic relationship with plants
7.12 – 8.20, 2016
reception,
July 15, 5 to 8 pm
MS Rezny Studio/Gallery
903 Manchester Street, Lexington KY 40508
Artists from 28 states submitted over 285 artworks of botanical interpretations in a variety of mediums. This year’s juror Stuart Horodner, Director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum, selected 30 artworks to be in the exhibit. In making his selections he “tried for some diversity of approach and simply responded to things that had a solid skillful or conceptual approach, favoring things that went a bit further than simplest of ideas.”
Click here to see the Gallery of Accepted Work.
Drawn to the Earth
In honor of the Earth and to celebrate Earth Month, recent visionary maps & contemporary landscapes & the Geopoetry Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D.
3.29 – April, 2016
reception,
April 8, 5 to 7 pm
MS Rezny Studio/Gallery
903 Manchester Street, Lexington KY 40508
Advocate Messenger feature by Bobbie Curd
Events during the month:
April 16, Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., geographer and geopoet, discusses his upcoming book, The Changing World Language Map.
April 23, An afternoon tea and a special viewing, followed by a discussion of Art and Poetry as the intersection of science, art, and spirituality.
At the gallery, please add your thoughts to the community journal, We Are All Geographers. In the journal, share your words & pictures on the topic of “Where on Earth are YOU?”
“February 8, 2006”, postcard front from “Each Day in the Year of the Fire Dog”, 365 postcards front and back by Kathleen O’Brien that will be on public display for the first time. “Pollinator 1″ and” Pollinator 2″ will also be displayed.
Juxtapose
2.8 – 4.2, 2016
reception,
Friday, 2.12, 5:30 – 7 PM
Community Art Center
401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422
New Year, New Art
1.4 – 1.30, 2016
reception,
Friday, 1.8, 5:30 – 7 PM
Community Art Center
401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422
Let us do our best even if it gets us nowhere, watercolor, drawing, collage by Kathleen O’Brien, 28x36″
11.20 – 12.30, 2015
gallery hop 11.20
from 5 – 8 pm
Arts Place Gallery
161 North Mill Street, Lexington, KY 40507
Monday – Friday: 10 – 5 pm. Saturday: 12 – 5 pm
Over 40 pieces by well-know Kentucky artists demonstrate a wide range of paer-based media: drawings, Prints, photographs, watercolors, collage and artist’s books. From intimate to monumental in scale, these works also reveal a variety of subject matter and approaches.
Horizon: Contemporary Landscape, Community Arts Center post card with Curve of the Earth, Birth of Thunder, watercolor collage image by Kathleen O’Brien, 22x30″
Horizon: Contemporary Landscape will be on view during Annual Open Studios ARTTOUR
HORIZON – Contemporary Landscape 2015
exhibit designed to test the limits of what we think of when we hear the word “landscape,” blurring the lines between the traditional and experimental
10.1 – 11.15, 2015
opening reception 10.8
from 6 – 8 pm
Community Art Center
401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422
21 artists have work on display for this four day event.
It is an honor to be one of the invited artists, showing thirteen framed artworks, Giclee prints and cards.
Kentucky Crafted @ the Breeders’ Cup Festival
The Livery, 238 E. Main Street, Lexington, KY
October 28 – 31, 2015
Beyond the Horse
Bluegrass artists redefine the horse in a contemporary way
that moves beyond literal representation.
tribeca trunk
116 Old Lafayette Avenue, Lexington, KY 40502
October 14 reception
Elderberry Harvest, painting collage by Kathleen O’Brien
Elderberry Necklace by Kathleen O’Brien
Fertile Ground
celebrates women’s roles at the forefront of community local food culture
10.2 – 11.7, 2015
reception 10.2 from 5 – 8 pm
Berea Arts Council
139 North Broadway Suite B, Berea, KY 40403
I will be a part of the artist talk for the Fertile Ground Preview exhibit on September 27, from 2 – 3 pm at the Madison County Public Library, Berea.
Talisman for Children by Kathleen O’Brien
notBIG(3)
third bi-annual small arts competition
8.11 – 9.11, 2015
MS Rezny Studio/Gallery
903 Manchester Street, Lexington KY 40508
From 380 international artworks juror Nathan Zamarron, chose 45 to be exhibited. Talisman for Children, pictured to the right.
To see the 45 artworks in the show click here .
Here are a few reception photos by Melissa Hall.
Talismans
Bead Jewelry and Artifacts as Power Objects
3.15 – 4.18, 2015
MS Rezny Studio/Gallery
903 Manchester Street, Lexington KY 40508
Click here to watch a two minute video.
Statement Talismans Exhibit
On a Wing
9.15 – 10. 31, 2014
Rich Gallery
Woodford County Library
115 North Main Street, Versailles, KY 40383
A visual experience of Sunwise Farm & Sanctuary – drawings & collages inspired by feathered & winged friends, the plants they pollinate & feather objects as still-life talismans.
More&more
7.1 – 31, 2014
M S Rezny Studio/Gallery
903 Manchester Street, Lexington, KY 40508
38 artworks selected by juror Jenine Culligan of Huntington Museum of Art
I am pleased that “Pollinators 1″ was awarded Honorable Mention Award in this show .
Birds of a Feather
Works on paper and found object sculptures
with guest artist, Lesley Patterson-Marx
5.2 – 31, 2014
MS Rezny Studio/Gallery
903 Manchester Street
Lexington KY 40508
Birds of a Feather, is a collaboration of Lesley’s silkscreen with Kathleen’s drawing and collage.
