JOHN O'CONNOR

John O’Connor’s work is the result of his immersion in processes, systems, and subjects, both real and invented. He transforms seemingly unrelated and often idiosyncratic systems into highly intricate and nuanced visual manifestations; the result is quirky, complex, and often large-scale drawings on paper rendered primarily in colored pencil and graphite.


Through idiosyncratic and entirely invented systems, he converts what is ordinarily invisible—spoken and written language, chance events, chaos theory—into visual representations that reveal patterns of speech and events. ESCAPEINTOLIFE