Molto Vivance, 2004
Acrylic & oil on canvas

Jamie Kristin O'Leary
Grad Student Painting, GTA

Artist’s Statement
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
        - T.S Elliot

To me this shadow is the essence of all things I see. To see something, to really see it, to hear it, to understand it, to internalize it, and to express it, this is my voice as an artist.  This world in which I live is full of wonderful things, things that cry out to me, things that I need to understand. I find myself conscious that I am other than myself, part of something larger, universal.  I begin to paint.  As if my separateness from this universal oneness was lost I watch as color, line and form appear on the canvas. These pulsating rhythms, lyrical movements, and curvilinear designs become my understanding, they become my voice, they become what I see as the shadow falls.

I want my paintings to be felt, to touch the viewer’s primordial senses.  I want their essences to be known, to whisper revelations to the subconscious mind.  Between the idea and the reality, this is where I want them to exist.

Education
University of North Carolina
Charlotte, NC
BFA (1998)
 
Exhibition Record
Spring 1996  Rowe Arts Gallery  Charlotte NC, Annual Juried Student Competition, Juror: Chris Hovelland

July 1997 Fat City,  Charlotte NC,  Solo Exhibition

June 1997 UNCC Campus Grounds,  Charlotte NC,  "Painting in the Enviroment"  Group Exhibition

November 1997  Rowe Arts Gallery,  Charlotte NC,  Painting Projects 1 Exhibition

May 1998  Rowe Arts Gallery,  Charlotte NC, "Passages" Senior Exhibition

July 2003    In Home Exhibition,  Wichita KS,  "Out of Storage" Solo Exhibition

October 2004 Unitarian Universalist Church,  Overland Park KS, "Insomnia, Holocaust, Gypsies and Print 101" a Performing Arts Group Exhibition