RESUME

PATRICK O'KIERSEY
Born: 1944, Chicago, Illinois
Living in Bay Area since 1973
Big Island, Hawaii since 2005

 

 

3240 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, Ca. 94609
(510) 652-3961

patrickmok1@hotmail.com

 

46-3775 Old Mamalahoa Hwy.
Honokaa, Hi. 96727
(808) 775-7185 or 557-6278

2009
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. (solo exhibition)
2008
   Wailoa Art Center, Hilo, Hawaii First Place-Painting Juried Show
    Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.  
2007
   State of Ca., Crafts & Cultural Arts, Oakland, Ca. (solo exhibition)
    Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.  
2006
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. (solo exhibition)
  Thoreau Center Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. (solo exhibition)
    455 Market St., San Francisco, Ca. (solo exhibition)
"A Chicago native, O'Kiersey paints in a manner descended from the Abstract Expressionism of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and local emulators such as Sam Tchakalian and Jack Jefferson." "The obviousness of its ancestry actually enhances the exposed quality of O'Kiersey's work: the way he sets knife- or brushstrokes to churning on hard white grounds that thrust them forward optically. The struggle to keep that drama fresh, despite its anachronism, gives O'Kiersey's pictures a poignancy beyond even what he intends for them." "Very different pictures such Mark Rothko Goes Swimming (2000) -- all brightness, air and speed -- and the dark, magmatic Untitled (Red) (2005) show the freedom and range O'Kiersey has when in his stride."Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle 4/08/06
  Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.  
2005
   Turn of the Century Fine Art, Berkeley, CA  
    Volcano Garden Arts, Volcano, HI  
2004   Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA  
"No wonder that painters such as Oaklander Patrick O'Kiersey still find this mode of work (improvisational abstract painting) fruitful." Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/22/04
  Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkelely, CA
(solo exhibition)
"Most of his paintings are thickly painted abstract compositions that convey moods, not precise landscapes."Robert Taylor, Contra Costa Times, 3/19/04
    Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA  
"O'Kiersey's Near Poison Oak (1986) hovers thrillingly between landscape painting and an all-out exercise in abstract expressionism. It looks as fresh as when Triangle first showed it more than 15 years ago." Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/09/04
2003
   Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA
Volcano Art Center, Volcano, HI
Bamboo Gallery, Honokaa, HI
 
2002
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA  
2001
   Alice Art Center, Oakland, CA
(solo exhibition)
2000
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA  
1999
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
   455 Market St., San Francisco, CA
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(solo exhibition)
1997
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
 
1995
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(solo exhibition)
"In the Bay Area, the possibility of painting sincerely as O'Kiersey does is still respected." Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/06/95
1993
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(solo exhibition)
"In O'Kiersey's hands, charcoal takes on astonishing animation." Jamie Brunson, Art Issues, Nov-Dec 1993 "O'Kiersey's best sheets achieve more than description ... so true to the effect of waning light on barren terrain that they are all but reduced to a mute display of charcoal."Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/17/93
1991
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(solo exhibition)
"When you probe these (abstract) paintings for intimations of landscape, they start to flicker with notations of sunlight."Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/20/91
1990
   Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA  
"When his color clicks as in Near Poison Oak, his painting discovers a parity of beauty as abstraction and as image that is really something to see."Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/29/90
1989
   Torsiello Gallery, Oakland, CA
(solo exhibition)
"This is generous, committed painting that prizes energy over resolution: O'Kiersey is a painter to watch."Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/26/89
1987
   Weir Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Alumae Invitational Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA 		 
1986
   Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum  
1985
   Pro-Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, Oakland, CA
M.F.A. Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA
 
1983
   Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA  


EDUCATION
1985
   M.F.A. Mills College, Oakland, CA  
1969
   B.A., Roosevelt University, Chicago, Ill.
Additional postgraduate study at:
• San Francisco Art Institute, 1982-83
• California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, 1980-83
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967-70


AWARDS
1998
   Best of Drawing, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA  
1996
   Best of Painting, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA  
1984
   Trefethen Fellowship, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Mills College Alumnae Scholarship
 


TRAVELS
1992
  - to present- Big Island of Hawaii:
        Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Kilauea-Pele; the elemental power of the volcano. Home...
1991
 , 94, 2000, 2001, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado:
        Arches, Neeedles, Islands in the Sky, Capitol Reef, Dinosaur, Santa Fe, Grand Canyon and the Colorado         Rockies--exquisite beauty and vast ages.
1989
   Italy:
Firenze, Siena and the Tuscan countryside--a flowering of culture, a wealth of art.
1973
   Northern California:
Surpassing beauty--a new home.
1972
   Ireland:
Dublin, Cork and Donegal--pilgrimage to the land of my father.
1969
 , 70, 71, Mexico:
South of the border; Maya, Toltec--things not taken for granted.
1964
 -73 Chicago:
Young adulthood--the life of the mind; a feast for the eye.
   


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