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Artist: Michael O'Keefe
Desiderium Head
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods, tools, and materials as a means to move beyond the boundaries of his tendencies. In his recent sculptures of heads...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
On the Conception of the Hip
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Plaster, Paint
"Sons and Lovers" Drill Drawing, #7
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed by artist "M. O'KEEFE 2013" at lower right.
Media is graphite on clay-coated panel.
Overall dimensions including the frame are 18 x 15 inches.
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Clay, Panel, Graphite
Election Year Portrait 1
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Monoprint
Faces which Ring with Refuge 8
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
That Interim of Purpose
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
The sculpture is painted cast plaster.
The dimensions are for the painted cast plaster. The black base dimensions are 2 x 10 x 10 inches.
About this body of work:
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...” ―William Gaddis, "The Recognitions"
“A great deal of my recent work was made during a time when I was reading the great American novel by William Gaddis, "The Recognitions," the most demanding book I’ve ever read. Along the way, I extracted sentence fragments that interested me and I pieced them together to make the titles for the last three years of my work. So, my recent work is linked to Gaddis’ novel through the titles, but also in the theme of “recognition,” which speaks to the nature of my work. I feel my way through various processes until I recognize a possibility―a possibility that is promising in terms of visual dynamics but also in terms of giving a body to some part of my experience. It is my hope that the viewer is compelled to recognize some part of themselves reflected in the work.” —Michael O’Keefe
Michael O’Keefe earned his MFA from SMU and currently teaches at The O’Keefe Studio Center in Richardson, Texas. This sculpture was included in "Recognitions," his fifth solo exhibition at Valley House...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Plaster, Paint
Indispensable Losses 3
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Granite
"Sons and Lovers" Drill Drawing, #5
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed by artist "M. O'KEEFE 2013" at lower left.
Media is graphite on clay-coated panel.
Overall dimensions including the frame are 18 x 15 inches.
Category
2010s American Modern Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Clay, Panel, Graphite
Untitled (Drill Drawing Series II) #3
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Graphite
"Sons and Lovers" Drill Drawing, #2
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed by artist "M. O'KEEFE 2013" at lower left.
Media is graphite on clay-coated panel.
Overall dimensions including the frame are 18 x 15 inches.
Category
2010s Academic Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Clay, Panel, Graphite
Agathist Head
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
Flying Torso Variation 7
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Stoneware, Wood
Election Year Portrait 9
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
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Faces which Ring with Refuge 1
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Indispensable Losses 11
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Graphite
The Laurel Series, #6
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Plaster
Election Year Portrait 3
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Abstract Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Monoprint
Election Year Portrait 2
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Monoprint
Faces which Ring with Refuge 5
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Abstract Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Indispensable Losses 2
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael O'Keefe Art
Materials
Graphite
Sons and Lovers, Drill Drawing, #11
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Category
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