by Paul OConnor | Oct 4, 2020 | Features
In the high desert of northern New Mexico, sculptor and photographer Paul O’Connor takes in his friend Debbie Long’s immersive installation. “Trippy” barely begins to describe the experience. By Paul O’Connor Several months have...
by Ann Landi | Feb 11, 2019 | Under the Radar
Paul O’Connor first fell in love with photography when he joined the navy at the tender age of 17. “My dad gave me a camera, an Olympus, and I started taking pictures—especially of clouds out at sea,” he recalls. Those big billowing skies would prove equally...
by Ruth Hiller | Dec 16, 2018 | Features
By Ruth Hiller It’s probably difficult to pinpoint the very first artist to make a shaped construction, an artwork that hovers somewhere between painting and sculpture. The possibilities for non-rectangular paintings begin as early as the 1920s with fanciful...
by Ann Landi | Mar 12, 2018 | Features
Why and How a Catalogue Adds Cachet In an era when vivid high-quality images can be accessed in a nanosecond on almost any available screen, why bother with something as cumbersome as a hard-copy catalogue with glossy images and real pages? Because the tangible can...
by Ann Landi | Aug 13, 2017 | Features
Self-portraits have always served artists in a variety of ways. Art historians have suggested that Jan van Eyck’s Man in a Red Turban (1433), with its inscription “Als ich kann”—meaning, “this is what I can do”—is both a self-portrait and a kind of calling card to...
