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Carla O’Connor will Juror WFWS 2010
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Carla
O'Connor has worked extensively with all media, from oil to pastel, but
eventually found her love in gouache. She believes every medium is
capable of saying something different. Gouache was the one that finally
spoke truest to her. With gouache Carla creates shapes (she's a self
described "shape maker"), using the human form as her guide. As an
artist, Carla focuses on design. Many of her workshops focus on
incorporating design principles into students' work.
Carla's art world extends far beyond her canvas. She has become a much
sought-after workshop instructor and has taught all over the world. She
has served on juries for prestigious national and international
exhibitions, including shows for the American Watercolor Society, the
National Watercolor Society, and the Adirondacks International
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Education
Carla
O'Connor received her BFA in painting from Kent State University, Kent,
Ohio. She has done additional formal study at the University of the
Americas, Mexico City; University of Dayton, Ohio; and the University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. |
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Professional Affiliations
O'Connor
is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society,
National
Watercolor Society and Northwest Watercolor Society and she is
an AWS
Dolphin Fellow.
source: http://www.ccpvideos.com/page/CCP/CTGY/ARTCO |
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May 3rd -7th, 2010
Carla O’Conner’s Workshop
in conjunction with WFWS Exhibition
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Students in my workshops can get very upset watching me continuously
apply and then wash off layers of gouache,” Carla O’Connor says. “They
think I should be more deliberate. What I have to explain is that the
process is an essential part of how I express myself. Besides, who
cares if I use the materials economically if I wind up with a painting
that doesn’t mean anything to me?” |
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That seemingly aimless process allows O’Connor to create masterful
paintings that resonate with other artists, exhibition judges,
curators, and collectors. Last year alone she was invited to conduct 15
workshops, judge four international exhibitions, participate in three
group shows, and help judge the awards for the American Watercolor
Society’s 2008 exhibition. One of those group exhibitions, the
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary International Watermedia
Masters, continues to travel throughout China and Taiwan and was
documented in a 76-page book.
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O’Connor has the remarkable ability to integrate representational
figures into abstract pictorial spaces, an approach she has worked hard
to develop during her career. “On one level or another, every artist
deals with the abstract qualities of pictures and the illusion of a
three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface,” she comments.
“For me, I almost always need to relate what I’m doing to a human form,
and more often than not that form is a woman. I sometimes paint men and
children, but I experience the world as a woman, and that’s the best
reference point for me.”
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