ARTIST TALK
Join Helen O’Toole and J. Rinehart Gallery for our in person Artist Talk. Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 1:00pm.
Of her work O’Toole states: “I am an abstract painter. My paintings relate my experiences and observations of growing up in the west of Ireland in the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. The traces of time evidenced in the landscape of my youth are a repository for our collective memories of the past and its persistent influences on the present: boundaries, control, oppression, trauma, and the insidious rumors surrounding the people I heard about or knew. My paintings consider the often-unspoken harshness of rural life, the people displaced from their homes and land by injustices and cruelty at the hands of an oppressor, and the implications of a post-colonial condition contributing to a generational sense of inadequacy.”
Helen O’Toole is best known for her large-scale abstract oil paintings. O’Toole received numerous other awards and research grants, including a Contemporary Northwest Art Award, a Pollock Krasner Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
This in-person event will take place at J. Rinehart Gallery located at 319 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98104, Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM.
Join us for an afternoon full of art.
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