Peep Show

'Pink Peep Show' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Pink Peep Show', 2016, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage on canvas, 30 x 24"
'Pinkie 1' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Pinkie 1', 2016, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage on linen, 14 x 10"
'Pinkie 2' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Pinkie 2', 2016, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage on linen, 14 x 10"
'Pinkie 3' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Pinkie 3', 2016, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage on linen, 14 x 10"
'Peep Show Salmon' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Peep Show Salmon', 2016, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage, tape on panel
'Peep Show Aqua' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Peep Show Aqua', 2015, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage, tape on panel, 20 x 16"
'First Peep Show' - Kathleen O’Hara
'First Peep Show', 2015, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage on canvas, 48 x 36"
'First Peep Show' - Kathleen O’Hara
'First Peep Show', 2015, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage on canvas, 48 x 36"
'Second Peep Show' - Kathleen O’Hara
'Second Peep Show', 2016, latex, acrylic, pencil, collage, tape on canvas, 48 x 36"

Statement

…similarly, when the comfortable iconic wood paneling of a typical TV room grows surrealist human eyes, the ease of charming becomes the eek of creepy. Yet it’s not textbook horror here, it’s its own language that balances scary with witty. Like a Louise Bourgeois spider, simultaneously a mother and a terror and absurdly charming, both of these artists love contradiction. Whether it’s the creepiness of the uncanny or the terror of sublime power, O’Hara’s work asks us to look below the surface to the psychological or parallel universe lurking behind the veil. These unseen forces are conceptually knit between object and mind, real or perceived, both creating the anxiety of the unknown, that familiar beast of our times.
 
Kate James
Executive Director, Concord Art