Kevin O'Hara
Kevin O’Hara makes images that maintain an illusion of realism until inspected closely. The surface is deliberately inscrutable, prizing abstraction and mark making over detail as an intimate viewing experience. The eye catching depiction captures the viewer and draws them into a world of pure paint. The subject matter is a playground: chosen for symbolic meaning as well as a codified visual language that hosts an extremity of light and dark, soft and hard, saturation and texture.