John J. O'Connor (artist)

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rdf:langString John Jerome O’Connor

rdf:langString John Jerome O’Connor

rdf:langString Westfield, Massachusetts, United States

rdf:langString Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

rdf:langString Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

rdf:langString Artwork of John Jerome O’Connor

rdf:langString John Jerome O’Connor (born 1972) is an American artist primarily known for his large-scale, labor-intensive, abstract works on paper. In these works, O'Connor transforms information through idiosyncratic processes, creating equally idiosyncratic abstract shapes, forms, and patterns. His works draw on relationships between spoken and written language, psychological fallacies, self-experimentation, mathematics, emergence in science and anthropology, and climate prediction and error. O'Connor's works map transformations from one known state into another – those that occur quickly and ferociously, as in a political revolution where a system of beliefs can be upended in an instant, or when an earthquake tears the ground apart in a flash. He's equally interested in how substantive change occurs incrementally, almost imperceptibly. In these phase changes, the exact moment of transformation is virtually imperceptible (the moment when rain becomes ice, or when we turn from a believer into an agnostic). O'Connor explores these phenomena as they exist in diverse aspects of human life - natural, mathematical, social, psychological, and political. His work attempts to visually fix the specific, imperceptible moments of a transformation, from the mundane to the monumental.