Luke O'Halloran
Luke Patrick O'Halloran (born 1991 in Thousand Oaks, California) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He is known for his paintings and drawings of forever spinning wheels, detailed portraits of slot machines in motion.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Luke O'Halloran was born in California and received his BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014.[3] He lived in Colorado for seven years before moving to New York, where he worked out of his Brooklyn apartment until 2022.[4][5] O'Halloran typically paints and draws various subjects in motion including slot machines and casino games, bowling balls, fruits falling from baskets, and free falling cats.[6] Of the cats, O'Halloran notes that felines have both a nonlethal terminal velocity and a righting reflex, adaptations he hopes humans can strive for one day.[5] He is also known for the use of playing cards as a subject, painting them falling through the air, being built into houses of cards, or as tools for magicians' tricks.[1] Influences include early Jasper Johns's number paintings and Vija Celmins.[2] He has shown at galleries including Almioe Rech, OCDChinatown, Gavlak Gallery, and Kapp Kapp.[6] In 2021, his work was shown alongside Sarah Charlesworth's at the Winter Street Gallery in Martha's Vineyard.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Akers, Tyler (2022). "Luke O'Halloran". Gayletter Magazine. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ a b Robb, Adam (November 11, 2020). "Luke O'Halloran's Royal Flush". Garage. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ a b Teich, Rebecca (2020). "Luke O'Halloran: Dealing". Kapp Kapp. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ Robb, Adam (August 17, 2020). "Painter Luke O'Halloran Illustrates the Luck of the Draw". Observer. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ a b Siemsen, Thora (October 27, 2020). "Luke O'Halloran on luck and losing". www.artforum.com. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- ^ a b McKinniss, Sam (2021-04-01). "THE COME DOWN; OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
- ^ McAllister, Gwyn (2021-07-28). "Mystery and magic in Winter Street Gallery's newest exhibit". The Martha's Vineyard Times. Retrieved 2024-02-21.