DOROTHY O’CONNOR
Posted by THE CENTER on Feb 11, 2011 in Current Exhibition, Featured artists, Portraits, Post by Kate Donaldson | 1 comment
(Photo credit: Dorothy O’Connor, Nest from the series Scenes; Director’s Selection)
Georgia based photographer Dorothy O’Connor’s series Scenes is proof that photography projects often begin with one spectral idea and solidify when a more personal drive surfaces. O’Connor began this series “with a desire to build an image around fire.” As new photographs were completed, she discovered dream parallels and insights to unexamined emotions and experiences. This series has further evolved to include an installation component, utilizing live but silent models to literally draw O’Connor’s audience inside her head. The depth of cinematic detail involved in these undertakings calls to mind Gregory Crewdson or Jeff Wall.
Director’s Selection for the Portraits exhibition, Dorothy O’Connor recently held one such tableau vivant in her Southwest Atlanta studio.
See more of Dorothy’s work at www.dorothyoconnor.com
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Dorothy is an extraordinarily gifted young woman. Her level of perception goes well beyond what she sees through the lens. And her visionary work indeed ignites the imagination.
Those of us who watched her work grow over the past few years witnessed an artist coming into her own. Brava!