Looking Out / Looking In
2021 Member's Exhibition

 

O’Brien

Peter O’Brien

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Peter O’Brien attended Notre Dame (BA), McGill (MA) and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Artwork from his current ten-year book project has been published by journals in Canada, England, Ireland, Israel, Nigeria, and the U.S., and has been exhibited in Antwerp, Hong Kong, Montreal, New York, and Toronto.

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This artwork is from my current multi-year project LOTS OF FUN WITH FINNEGANS WAKE. The project feeds off and is nourished by James Joyce’s final book, the 628-page novel Finnegans Wake. I am simultaneously looking intently within Joyce’s idiosyncratic language, and investigating how it fits into, or does not fit into, the world outside its sui generis confines. My 628-artwork project yokes together my twinning interests of the illustrative and the intellectual, the visual and the verbal.

8 1/2" X 11"
Felt pen, acrylic, and graphite on archival card stock.
2019

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8 1/2" X 11"
Felt pen and graphite on archival card stock.
2018

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8 1/2" X 11"
Felt pen, graphite, and acrylic on archival card stock.
2019