Studio Sessions
Centering
with Kelley O’Leary
September 2024
About the Studio Session
The ripples of a stone dropped in a pond, the whorls of fingerprints, or the axis of a wheel: this Studio Session is about seeking center.
We spiral inward to touch infinity within ourselves and that which connects us to everything. We identify fleeting moments of balance where everything aligns–not looking to find and possess, instead seeking in the form of perpetual inward movement.
We explore the layers of our identity as concentric and cumulative information that draws us closer to the work we do. What (or where) is the center of our practices, our bodies, our lives?
About the Lead Artist
Kelley O’Leary is an interdisciplinary artist based in El Cerrito, CA. She received a MFA in Art Studio from University of California, Davis and a BA in Art with a minor in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz. O'Leary's speculative practice examines the internet as an alien and elemental planetary network. Her work imagines beyond linear and computational time to inhabit unfamiliar geological landscapes.
O’Leary’s work has been exhibited at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Root Division, Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Well Well Projects, Pallas Gallery, 120710 Gallery, Incline Gallery, and Studio 106 LA among others. She has been an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute, Bullseye Glass, Irving Street Projects and VR Art Camp. She was the recipient of the LeShelle and Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship at University of California, Davis.
O’Leary is a member of Imaginaries of the Future Collective, a self-organizing nomadic collective of artists and thinkers founded by Beatriz Cortez. She is co-curator of the Bay Area-based new media art salon, Living Room Light Exchange.
@kelley__oleary
Logistics
This Studio Session took place in September 2024.