Browse this page for recent exhibits. The full listing is on my resume: CV 2023

Chakra Necklaces by Kathleen O'Brien

 

 

 

 

Bead Demonstration

September 16, 2023

10 am – 5 pm

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Visitor Center

 

during the Kentucky Heritage Jazz Festival!

free admission

thanks to Family Wealth Group

 

read a blog about Chakra Necklaces

Oh! Kentucky exhibit

Oh! Kentucky

 3.27 – 5.17, 2023

 Reception 3.30 | 4:30-6:00pm

Central Bank

John G. Irvine Gallery

700 East Vine Street, Lexington, KY

An exhibition of 50 artworks by 40 artists from Kentucky

~ in appreciation of our great state ~

 

Kathleen O'Brien, "Abraham Lincolns Kentucky", watercolor, drawing, collage, 20x24"
Alexanders Library Show banner by Kathleen O'Brien

 

 

 

Alexander’s Library

 

 February – March, 2023

Lexington Public Library

Eastside Branch

3000 Blake James Drive

Lexington, KY 40509

 

20 artist books

18 artworks from “Grace”

shown at left: pages from artist book “Summer Hiatus”

and details from “October 1-4”

 

Holiday Art Market at EncaustiCastle flyer

Holiday Art Market

at EncaustiCastle

 November 19, 2022

11-4

EncaustiCastle

290 East Loudon Avenue

Lexington KY

 

 I will feature Talisman jewelry

 

9 talisman necklaces by Kathleen O'Brien
"State of Grace, December 1", watercolor painting by Kathleen O'Brien

 

 

 

 

 

WOMEN IN ART, 2022

online exhibit

 7.7 – 7.31, 2022

Las Laguna Art Gallery

577 S. Coast Highway A-1
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

“State of Grace, December 1”

 

©Kathleen O'Brien, "Bamboo Structures", watercolor, graphite, collage, bamboo leaves, 30”x22”

OPENING

 9.1 – 10.31, 2021

The exhibition titled “OPENING” explores the many ways we see ourselves, our surroundings, and our psychological state after a season of global lockdowns. This online exhibition features a wide selection of works by the international art community of the Art NXT Level program. Through their art and stories, this group of artists shares how their work and our world have changed. Curated by Sergio Gomez. Sponsored by Art NXT Level and ArtPlacer

View the show here

 Bamboo Structures was selected for participation in the show  

 

"Opening" tile, art by Thyra Moore
Beginnings-Endings 1, 2, 3

Beginnings/Endings

 6.11 – 7.23, 2021

An online exhibition experience curated by Kate Savage for ArtConnectsLex

 

my works titled Beginnings Endings 1, 2 and 3 have been selected for participation in the show  

 

©Kathleen O'Brien, "Rock Paperglyph 1", watercolor and Neolithic quartz beads

ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS

 4.16 – 5.30, 2021

An online exhibition experience curated by Kate Savage for ArtConnectsLex

 

my works titled Rock Paperglyph 1, 2 and 3 have been selected for participation in the show  

 

Isolation Chronicles exhibit

Isolation Chronicles

 3.15 – 4.30, 2021

An online exhibition experience curated by Sergio Gomez exploring many aspects of the isolation and confinement we have all experienced since 2020.

The exhibition was sponsored by @artnxtlevel and @artplacer.app

 

 Love Letter to Humanity 2 was selected for participation in the show  

 

©Kathleen O'Brien, Love Letter to Humanity 2
Charged Space 2 by Kathleen O'Brien, 10x8"

New Year, New Art

 1.2 – 2.21, 2020

Art Center of the Bluegrass

401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422

 

"Elder Harvest", painting collage, Kathleen O'Brien

Music to My Eyes:

Visions of Music

September 13 – November 2, 2019

Berea Arts Council

444 Chestnut Street, Berea, KY 40403

“Birthday Party with Red-winged Black Bird Symphony, Robin Solo” was selected for the show

Charged Space 2 by Kathleen O'Brien, 10x8"

Atlas of the Year:

Sojourner Maps to Being in the Right Place at the Right Time

  February 20 – April 17, 2019

 Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning

251 West Second St.
Lexington, KY, 40507

An installation of twenty-four artworks depicting the cosmic year as a four-season, four-direction, cross-cultural celebration. It explores the ability of art to encompass this global entwining of time and space, which once understood, allows us to energetically be in the right place at the right time. 

© Kathleen O'Brien, "Anasazi Doorway", watercolor, drawing, petals, collage, 2018

New Year, New Art

 1.8 – 2.20, 2019

 Community Art Center

401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422

 

" Choice of Words" and "Magic Square of Words" by Kathleen O'Brien

Illustrated Word

 February 2017 – December 2018

 

This Kentucky Arts Council sponsored show traveled to 12 libraries around Kentucky.

“Choice of Words” and “Magic Square of Words”

"Elder Harvest", painting collage, Kathleen O'Brien

Feeling Blue

May 18 – July 8, 2018

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!

"Elder Harvest", painting collage, Kathleen O'Brien

Put a Bird on It

May 25 – June 30, 2018

reception June 1, 5:30 – 7 pm

Berea Arts Council

“Orange Bellied Parrot” and “Rainbow Parrot” details of panels

 

Charged Space 2 by Kathleen O'Brien, 10x8"

New Year, New Art

 1.2 – 2.24, 2018

 Community Art Center

401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422 

"Elder Harvest", painting collage, Kathleen O'Brien

The Book Transformed

October 6 – November 11, 2017

Berea Arts Council

St. Joseph Berea Hospital

November 15 – January 3, 2018

“Messages, page 6” 

 

 

"225" Show Card
"Abraham Lincolns Kentucky" collage by Kathleen O'Brien for "225" exhibit, KY Artisan Center

225: Artists Celebrate Kentucky’s History

 March 25 – Sept. 30, 2017

Kentucky Artisan Center

at Berea

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.

 

"Elder Harvest", painting collage, Kathleen O'Brien

Kentucky Painters Invitational

July 5 – August 16, 2017

St. Joseph Berea Hospital

June 2 – July 1, 2017

Berea Arts Council

“Summer Study”

 

 

Gridworks card
"Shapes 1, 2 and 3" collages by Kathleen O'Brien for "Gridworks Revisited" at New Editions Gallery

GRIDWORKS REVISITED!

3.17-5.12, 2017

New Editions Gallery

 500 W. Short Street

Lexington KY

 

Charged Space 1, 2, 3 and 4

Kentucky Visions at the Capitol

 2.1 – 3.31, 2017

 

Kentucky Arts Council

Capitol Annex
702 Capitol Avenue

Frankfort, KY

"Let Us Do Our Best Even If It Gets Us Nowhere", watercolor, drawing, collage by Kathleen O'Brien, 22x30"

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

 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, 22×30″

 

Shining Garden, mixed media collage, 30x22", Kathleen O'Brien

Firmly Rooted

addressing our ongoing, symbiotic relationship with plants

7.12 – 8.20, 2016

MS Rezny Studio/Gallery

 

Rivers and Roots, watercolor, drawing, ink, collage by Kathleen O'Brien, with poem by Stanley D. Brunn

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

MS Rezny Studio/Gallery

903 Manchester Street, Lexington KY 40508

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..

Juxtapose

 2.8 – 4.2, 2016

 Community Art Center

401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422

“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.

At first i thought ...

New Year, New Art

 1.4 – 1.30, 2016

 Community Art Center

401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422

 

Let us do our best, evenif it gets us nowhere, watercolor collage by Kathleen O'Brien, 22x30"
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Drawn to Kentucky: Works on Paper

 11.20 – 12.30, 2015

 Arts Place Gallery

161 North Mill Street, Lexington, KY 40507

Over 40 pieces by well-know Kentucky artists demonstrate a wide range of paper-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.

Let us do our best even if it gets us nowhere, watercolor, drawing, collage by Kathleen O’Brien, 28×36″

 

 

Curve of the Earth, Birth of Thunder, watercolor collage by Kathleen O'Brien, 22x30"

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

 Community Art Center

401 W. Main St. Danville, KY 40422

Horizon: Contemporary Landscape, Community Arts Center post card with Curve of the Earth, Birth of Thunder, watercolor collage image by Kathleen O’Brien, 22×30″

 

KAC Breeders Cup Festival

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

 

White Horse 1 and White Horse 2 by Kathleen O'Brien

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

 

"Elder Harvest", painting collage, Kathleen O'Brien

Elderberry Harvest, painting collage  by Kathleen O’Brien

Elderberry & paper bead necklace, 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

Berea Arts Council

139 North Broadway Suite B, Berea, KY 40403

The artist talk for the Fertile Ground Preview exhibit is on September 27, from 2 – 3 pm at the Madison County Public Library, Berea.

 

 

Talisman for Children, Mixed Media collage Kathleen O'Brien

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.

Talisman for Western Bluebird, collage detail & Talisman for Oceans, necklace for Postcard

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

"Sun Worship" drawing Kathleen O'Brien

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.

Pollinators 1, Kathleen O'Brien in More&more exhibit

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 collaboration

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.

Song for Rainbow Parrot, mixed media collage on panel, Kathleen O'Brien

Uncommon Wealth Exhibit

The exhibit was part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Kentucky Arts Council’s Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship. As a 2012 Fellowship recipient, my Song for Rainbow Parrot was chosen to be in Uncommon Wealth by the juror, Jenine Culligan, Senior Curator, Huntington Museum of Art. The exhibit  toured the state for six months beginning at the Lyric Theatre in Lexington,Kentucky, in January 2014.