Kerry O'Grady
Primary Medium: Drawing
Other media: Wall drawing, Sound, Film / Video, Installation
Email: kerryogrady (at) gmail (dot) com
Artist Statement
These drawings contemplate the unfixed nature of my experience. I draw from a state of uncertainty about the relationship between self and space, between a moment of experience and the one that follows it. The origin of our awareness oscillates between the body and our vision, so our moments of perception take on discontinuities, shifts in the point of origin. These shifts unhinge moments of perception, creating fragmented narratives and giving rise to questions about the continuity within our experiences. I draw from the experience of unhinged, indeterminate, and discontinuous moments, and from the interstitial moments of perception between those that can be concretely described.
These drawings also serve as records of performance. A mark immediately becomes a trace of the past, embodying the spontaneous movement that made it. As the drawn marks allude to a once-fleeting present, the layers of marks become artifacts, interacting to evoke the unfixed and non-linear nature of time.
Other media: Wall drawing, Sound, Film / Video, Installation
Email: kerryogrady (at) gmail (dot) com
Artist Statement
These drawings contemplate the unfixed nature of my experience. I draw from a state of uncertainty about the relationship between self and space, between a moment of experience and the one that follows it. The origin of our awareness oscillates between the body and our vision, so our moments of perception take on discontinuities, shifts in the point of origin. These shifts unhinge moments of perception, creating fragmented narratives and giving rise to questions about the continuity within our experiences. I draw from the experience of unhinged, indeterminate, and discontinuous moments, and from the interstitial moments of perception between those that can be concretely described.
These drawings also serve as records of performance. A mark immediately becomes a trace of the past, embodying the spontaneous movement that made it. As the drawn marks allude to a once-fleeting present, the layers of marks become artifacts, interacting to evoke the unfixed and non-linear nature of time.
Selected Works
|  trace, echo - 2009 - graphite and milk paint on panel - 11" h, width varies, 33" of appx 30'  trace, echo - 2009 - graphite and milk paint on panel - 11" h, width varies, 18" of appx 30'  trace, echo - 2009 - graphite and milk paint on panel - vary, 10' from appx 30'  as above so below - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" h, width varies  as above so below - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" h, width varies  as above so below - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" h, width varies  as above so below - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" x 11" detail  ephemeros - 2009 - graphite and milk paint on panel - 11" h, width varies  ephemeros - 2009 - graphite and milk paint on panel - 11" h, width varies  through to where - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" h, width varies  through to where - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" h, width varies  through to where - 2009 - graphite and homemade gesso on panel - 11" h, width varies  the unfixedness of it - 2009 - installation of 4 multi-panel drawings - installation view  untitled - 2010 - graphite on vellum - 3' x 7'  detail of Untitled - 2010 - graphite on vellum - 3' x 7' |
