Untitled, 1988

Description:

Helen O'Leary is an Irish-born artist based in the United States and Ireland, who is best known for constructions that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture and object and image. Her mature work uses bricolage and handicraft approaches to refashion older works, studio castoffs and diverse materials into abstract pieces that explore materials, language, physical remnants of the past, and the visual, cultural and emotional influences of origin. (...read more...)