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However the Queen, 96, will not confirm her attendance until the day of the party, according to the Mirror, because of her mobility issues which have seen her reluctantly pull out of many royal appearances in recent months. This exhibition is organized by Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.A sweet photograph of Prince William and the Queen during their 2021 Scotland visit Critic Jason Foumberg contributes a creative writing piece, aesthetically inspired by the artist’s working process. Exhibition curator Naomi Beckwith and Peabody Essex Museum Curator of Contemporary Art Trevor Smith contextualize the artist’s work in light of recent modes in contemporary art history, such as l’informe, the handmade, and semiotics. O’Brien’s first artist’s monograph, produced by MCA Chicago, accompanies the show. Above all, the exhibition develops new language around O’Brien’s contemporary abstract artworks-language that focuses on process rather than individual expression or technique and that considers his body of work as a reflection of a multitude of cultural sources.

The stanzas demonstrate how each of O’Brien’s artworks is a carefully calibrated exercise in improvisation and control. It is divided into several sections, or stanzas, with each section featuring works in several media to underscore the connections between disparate objects as well as the artist’s interest in scale. Stemming from O’Brien’s interest in language and poetry, the exhibition is organized like a poem. Altogether O'Brien's work evidences the artist's easy absorption of a broad range of narratives-art historical, ethnographic, spiritual, pop, poetic-as well as his singular ability to create objects that appear as distinctly enigmatic as they are aesthetically coherent. His paintings are accumulations of pigment, fabric, string, and other materials that appear to droop toward the floor, and his sculptures of tenuously attached die-cut shapes, while stiff and upright, seem to create more negative space than positive forms. His ceramics are playfully formed, often drizzled with vividly colored glazes, and exhibit a range of cultural references, from ethnographic objects of the ancient past to “face jugs” of the antebellum American South. His works on paper usually feature exuberant colors and geometric patterning that mimic the automatic drawings of the Surrealists while faintly evoking psychedelia and dream paintings. Although O'Brien is perhaps best known for his work in ceramics, his working process often begins with the act of drawing. O’Brien, the artist's first comprehensive museum exhibition, demonstrates his prolific output in a broad range of media, from sculpture and ceramics to drawing, textiles, and painting.

O'Brien Image courtesy of the artist Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York About Colored pencil, ink, and glitter on paper 68 x 42 in.
