Michael O'Keefe
That Interim of Purpose
2018

Name: That Interim of Purpose
Brand: Michael O'Keefe
Rating: 5 (14 reviews)

$5,500List Price

About the Item

The sculpture is painted cast plaster. The dimensions are for the painted cast plaster. The black base dimensions are 2 x 10 x 10 inches. About this body of work: “Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...” ―William Gaddis, "The Recognitions" “A great deal of my recent work was made during a time when I was reading the great American novel by William Gaddis, "The Recognitions," the most demanding book I’ve ever read. Along the way, I extracted sentence fragments that interested me and I pieced them together to make the titles for the last three years of my work. So, my recent work is linked to Gaddis’ novel through the titles, but also in the theme of “recognition,” which speaks to the nature of my work. I feel my way through various processes until I recognize a possibility―a possibility that is promising in terms of visual dynamics but also in terms of giving a body to some part of my experience. It is my hope that the viewer is compelled to recognize some part of themselves reflected in the work.” —Michael O’Keefe Michael O’Keefe earned his MFA from SMU and currently teaches at The O’Keefe Studio Center in Richardson, Texas. This sculpture was included in "Recognitions," his fifth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery. Michael O'Keefe Curriculum Vitae: Education: 2006 M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1999 Post Graduate Studies, New York Studio School, New York, New York 1999 B.F.A., Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 1998 Undergraduate Studies, International School of Art, Umbria, Italy 1997 Undergraduate Studies, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Solo Exhibitions: 2019 Michael O’Keefe: Recognitions, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2018-19 Michael O’Keefe: Enduring In The Posture Of Love, Contemporary Gallery, The Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, Texas 2016 Michael O’Keefe: In Medias Res, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 2014 Michael O’Keefe: Sculpture and Drawings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 2012 Michael O’Keefe: Continuum, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2010 Faculty Projects 24: Michael O’Keefe, Forum Gallery, School of the Arts, Brookhaven College, Dallas County Community College District, Farmers Branch, Texas 2010 Michael O'Keefe: Lady Classical, Mother Metamorphosis, and other Holy Fables, Sculpture and Drawings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2008 Value and Myth: Recent Drawing and Sculpture, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2006 Pulsing Impossibilities, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2005 Abraham, The Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Group Exhibitions: 2020 On Being Human, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2020 Exquisite Corpse, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2019 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2018 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2017 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2017 2017 University of Dallas Regional Juried Ceramic Competition, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, juror Professor Virginia Marsh 2016 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2014 MAC@20 Part II, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas 2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2014 Masterful Marks: An Exploration of the Medium of Drawing, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2014 Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2014 Marking a Course, curated by Tracee W. Robertson, UNT Art Gallery, Denton, Texas 2013 Annual MAC Membership Exhibition, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas 2013 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2012 BCSA Art Faculty Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas 2012 Houston Fine Art Fair, Reliant Center, Houston, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2012 Respect: Artists Invite Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2012 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2011 “Meltdown” Annual MAC Membership Exhibition, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas 2011 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery) 2011 Hecho en Dallas, The Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas 2011 Elemental = color / line / texture, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2009 The Plan is the Body. a works-on-paper show, curated by Michael Garguilo, Big Chimney, Chicopee, Massachusetts 2008 Meadows Art Now, SMU Faculty Show, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas 2008 DCCCD Faculty Show, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2008 Academia Pushing the Boundary, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas 2007 Interventions and Contraventions: Michael O'Keefe and Nicholas Cairns, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2006 Master of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2006 The Shew, Mockingbird Station, Dallas, Texas 2006 Ray Larrow & Michael O'Keefe, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, New Works Space Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2005 Figure I, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2004 Nicholas Cairns and Michael O'Keefe: Painting, Sculpture and Drawing, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, Pennsylvania 2003 Emerging Brooklyn Artists, Gallery 718, Brooklyn, New York 2002 Gowanus Artists Association, Studio Exhibitions, Brooklyn, New York, Visiting Artist/Guest Speaker Literature: Michael Granberry, "Get In the Middle of Things," The Dallas Morning News, February 21, 2016, Arts section, page 8E. "Events Calendar: Art & Performance," Addison Magazine, February/March 2016, pages 29-30, Indispensable Losses 23 (drawing) reproduced. Michael O’Keefe: Indispensable Losses, exhibition catalogue, Essay by Ben Rubin, Time is the Little Death of All That We Don’t Need: An Introduction to Michael O’Keefe’s “Indispensable Losses”. Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas, 2016. “Artistic Process: The Artist and Viewer,” Interview with Liz Tucker, edited by Christine Brooks Cote, Stone Voices No. 12, Summer 2014, pages 44-53. 60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014; Nightshade and Nightshade Variation reproduced. Lauren Smart, “Noted: Galleries,” Patron Magazine, February – March 2014, page 40. Todd Camplin, “A Trip to the Valley,” Todd Camplin Weekly, ModernDallas, January 24, 2014. Michael O’Keefe: Sculpture and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Interview with Estelle Voisin Fonteneau, PhD, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas, 2014. Michael Granberry, “Works by Michael O’Keefe,” Dallas Morning News Guide, January 17, 2014, page 40, “Sons and Lovers” Drill Drawing, #17 reproduced. Georgia Smith, “Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden,” Addison Magazine, January 14, 2014, Agathist Head reproduced. Kent L. Boyer, “Michael O’Keefe,” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Volume 9, 2012-2013, pages 83-91, multiple images reproduced. Jim Mathis, “This Week’s Gallery Openings: February 23-25,” D Magazine Front Row, February 23, 2012, The Laurel Series reproduced. “Arts & Events,” Addison: The Magazine of the North Dallas Corridor, Spring 2012, page 77, The Laurel Series reproduced. Michael Granberry, “Openings & Events,” The Dallas Morning News Guide, February 24, 2012, page 49, The Laurel Series reproduced. “Portfolio: Michael O’Keefe – Painter, Draughtsman, Sculptor,” Stone Voices No. 1, September 2011, pages 38-51. “Noted + Upcoming,” A + C Magazine, May 2010, page 38. “Calendar: Gallery Talk,” D Home, October 2008, page 60, The Three Graces reproduced. Christina Hughes Babb, “Michael O’Keefe,” Lakewood People, section 2A, November 23, 2007. Teaching: 2013-Present Founder and Instructor, The O’Keefe Studio, Richardson, Texas 2012-2013 Associate Faculty, Collin College, Plano, Texas 2008-2013 Adjunct Professor, Sculpture/Drawing, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas 2008-2009 Adjunct Professor of Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2007-Present Sketchmasters Program Instructor, Corgan Associates, Inc, Dallas, Texas (designed and implemented eight week drawing courses for architects meant to enhance their understanding of the fundamentals of manual drawing) 2007-2013 Adjunct Professor of Drawing, Eastfield College, Mesquite, Texas 2007 Instructor of Drawing and Sculpture, Creative Arts Center of Dallas (Classes: Observational Drawing: Things and Spaces, Figurative Sculpture Beyond the Model, Getting to Know the Nasher), Dallas, Texas 2007 Adjunct Professor of Drawing, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2007 Instructor for the Rosenberg Visual Arts Workshop, for advanced high school art students, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2005-2007 Drawing and Sculpture Instructor (ages 8-14), Community Education Program, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2004-2006 Teaching Assistant (sculpture/drawing), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2002-2004 Hospital Audiences, Inc., Workshop Artist (Designed and led drawing, painting, and sculpture workshops at various facilities in New York dedicated to the education and well being of high-functioning mentally ill individuals) 2000-2002 Departmental Assistant, Fine Arts department, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania Fellowships, Lectures and Discussions: 2016 Artist Talk for Michael O’Keefe: In Medias Res, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2014 Artist Talk for Michael O’Keefe: Sculpture and Drawings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2012 Artist Talk for Michael O'Keefe: Continuum, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2010 Artist Talk for Michael O'Keefe: Lady Classical, Mother Metamorphosis, and other Holy Fables (Sculpture and Drawings), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2010 Artist Talk, hosted by Arlington Visual Arts Association at Bob Duncan Community Center, Vandergriff Park, Arlington, Texas 2009 Visiting Artist, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 2009 Member of the selection jury, 2009 Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition, American Institute of Architects 2009 Member of the selection jury, Young Masters Exhibit, Dallas Museum of Art, The O'Donnell Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2008 – Present Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas - working artist, Part of the First Saturdays programming, demonstrating various processes for making sculpture 2005 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas Π8 session demonstration of Alberto Giacometti's working techniques and artistic philosophies 2004 Visiting Artist, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 2003-2004 Visiting Artist, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 2001-2004 Assistant to sculptor Christopher Cairns Corporate Collections: Fishman Jackson, Dallas, Texas Norton Rose Fulbright, Dallas, Texas

Creator:
Michael O'Keefe (1977, American)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 36.82 in (93.53 cm)Width: 8.13 in (20.66 cm)Depth: 5.75 in (14.61 cm)
Medium:
Plaster,Paint
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: 224701stDibs: LU2578043072

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