PHIL O'MALLEY STUDIO

A FEW PAINTINGS FROM THE STUDIO OF PHIL O'MALLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, IN artistphilomalley@gmail.com

Friday, June 13, 2014

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

TECHNIQUE IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF CONCEPT

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For me, art is a human response and a human experience. My art is alive and it needs to exhibit human traits. Some of my paintings have aggressive players where shapes and colors jockey for the front position. I also make paintings that are more reserved. They stand quietly watching the other paintings bounce off of the wall.

When I am creating my art, I may not know exactly where I am heading but I do know how to get there. I follow a working path of expected surprises and fearless exploration to create unique visual experiences. I have found that extraordinary imagination, perpetual curiosity, and unstoppable inventiveness, need to be employed by making something. I enjoy a humbling experience by occasionally relinquishing control to the nuances and idiosyncrasies of my partners; material and surface. The material, the surface, and I collaborate during the construction process and the three of us engage in real and complicated conversations. We allow technique to be the consequence of concept. Recently, the three of us enhanced our synergy by making it a foursome and welcoming our new partner, physics. With art and physics, we couple creativity with gravity and motion. Gravity and I work well together.

"SIMILAR TO PEEKING, I ADJUST AS I GO."










“ONLY ONE WILL WIN” 2008
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC
60” X 40”






“SEEK HELP” 2008
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC
60” X 40”






"ZEN IN THE ART OF AUDACITY"
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC 2007
40" X 60"







"UNTITLED" 2007

ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC

24" X 36"











"OPERATING FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW" 2007
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC
108" X 140"






DETAIL ("OPERATING FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW")



DETAIL ("OPERATING FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW")






"GLEAMS OF HALF-EXTINGUISHED THOUGHT"
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC 2007
40" X 60"






"A SHAPE LESS RECOGNIZABLE FLOATS TO SHORE"

ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC 2007
60" X 96"










"COASTAL PARADE OF FLUCTUATING CONTRASTS"
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC 2007
60" X 96"









"A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY WITH ANOTHER MISTREATED,
OVERWORKED, UNDERAPPRECIATED FEMALE"
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC 2007
60" X 96"








"HE KILLED THE SONGBIRD BECAUSE IT MADE HER HAPPY"
ACRYLIC ON ACRYLIC 2007
36" X 48"








"BROWN COUNTY OCTOBER, II" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
84" X 60"







"THAT BACK-BENDING SAX" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
60" X 72"





DETAIL: "THAT BACK-BENDING SAX" 2008











"GLISSANDO" a.k.a. "WE DIDN'T LEAVE FOR BOCA WHEN WE HEARD;
'THE TULIPS ARE COMING! THE TULIPS ARE COMING!'" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
84" X 137"







"SAUGATUCK PARADE: RED SKY AT NIGHT..." 2007
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
48" X 48"







"GORKIAN FLIP” a.k.a. “TIED: 4 TO 8” 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
64” X 75”




DETAIL: "GORKIAN FLIP” a.k.a. “TIED: 4 TO 8” 2008









"SAMUEL & HIS PEERS IN PASTORAL SYMPHONY" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
76" X 98"








"A.M. MIST AT THE IMA TOW BRIDGE" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
63" X 75"




DETAIL: "A.M. MIST AT THE IMA TOW BRIDGE"










"RECONNOITERING" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
72" X 140"


















"NESTING-APRIL'S RED BREAST" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS.
48" x 48"




DETAIL OF: "NESTING-APRIL'S RED BREAST"












"POINT / COUNTERPOINT" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
64" X 44"
















"EXTENDED OLIVE BRANCH" 2008
CHARCOAL, PASTEL, & OIL ON CANVAS
27" X 72"










“WHERE IS IT WRITTEN THAT…?” 2007
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
64” X 44”












"IN THE DOORWAY BETWEEN TWO ROOMS"

OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS 2007

64" X 42"














"BK'S COURTYARD" 2007

OIL, PASTEL, & SAND ON CANVAS

12" X 12"
















"MONDAY AFTERNOON AND AFTER

MANY SHEETS OF CRUMPLED PAPER"

OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS

64" X 44"






















"RHETORICALLY PROVERBIAL" 2007

OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS

24" X 36"









"OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL PIANTING" 2007

OIL & PASTEL ON SONOTUBE

96" X 36" DIAMETER (113" PERIMETER)










DETAIL ("OUR LADY OF..."













"DAUGHTER OF OUR LADY
OF PERPETUAL PAINTING" 2008
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
110" X 52"


DETAIL: "THE DAUGHTER OF OUR LADY..."















"MELIFUOUS MENDACITY" 2007
OIL & PASTEL & COLLAGE ON CANVAS
72" X 52"







"THE CONVERSATION" 2007
OIL, PASTEL, SAND & PASTA ON CANVAS
52" X 88"







"TOUCH ME" 2007
OIL, PASTEL, ALUMINUM, CAULKING, & MONEY ON CANVAS
72" X 96"







"DREAMS SERIES, #17, #24, #64.... 2007
OIL, COLLAGE, & APPROPRIATION ON CANVAS
52" X 120"








“VIEW BEYOND THE OBSTACLES #I” 2006
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
24” X 24”







“VIEW BEYOND THE OBSTACLES #II” 2006
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
24” X 24”







"PARTS OF THE WHOLE" 2007
GESSO ON MDF
12" X 9"












"FURIOUS" 2007
OIL & CAULKING ON MDF
12" X 9"






"CLOUD DOCK" 2007
OIL, CAULKING, & STRETCHER KEYS ON MDF
12" - 9"







"UNDECIDED" 2007
OIL & CAULKING ON MDF
12" X 9"







"EXPOSED" 2007
OIL & CAULKING ON MDF
12" x 9"





"WHAT'S UP WITH RICHTER?" 2006
MULTI-LAYERED VARNISHED PASTEL
30" X 20"










"RIDING ON THE RIGHT SIDE" 2006
OIL & PASTEL ON CANVAS
"30 x 40"











"CURVILINEAR ALBERS II" 2006
MULTI-LAYERED VARNISHED PASTEL
16" X 48"







"CURVILINEAR ALBERS III" 2006
MULTI-LAYERED VARNISHED PASTEL
16" X 48"





"AFTER THE OPERA" 1983
OIL ON CANVAS
36" X 48"

PLEASE FEEL ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT ME ABOUT ANY OF MY PAINTINGS. I HAVE MORE. artistphilomalley@gmail.com


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