Florida Artists Group

  Area V Member

Kathy O'Meara— Mixed Media

HIgh Desert

HB I
10x10


Red Dragon 

Marsh Land Triump
12x12


 
Poetry In Motion

What Lies Beneath
12x12

Jungle Symphony

HB II
10x10


Kathy's Web Site

Contact Email Address

Member of Flag since:
2014

FLAG Positions Served:
Vice President:
2021-Present

 

FLAG Positions Served:

Artist Statement:

My work alludes to the erosion of time and its alterations of memory. My experiences have profoundly affected me and have created a vast storehouse of memories that, through the passage of time, have been fractured, veiled, distilled, altered, and recontextualized into new memories that color everything that I create. I draw on my experiences of many different cultures and mythologies to create my own personal mythology. I have created my own visual language to express my personal mythology. I mine these memories to create collaged, assembled and painted art objects, sometimes two-dimensional, sometimes three. I often create objects that are somewhat veiled or non -representational, as of dreams and memories vaguely remembered. I am on a journey of exploration, taking objects endowed with spirituality and combining them with spiritually vacant human-made objects to form new and different images that are full of mystery and irony and that speak to a personal as well as a universal experience in hopes that the viewer will engage with the work and see something of their own story.

Kathy's Bio:

Education:                   Bachelor of Science, Cleveland State University, OH,  
                                      various post graduate art studies
Published in:                The Art of Layering: Making Connections
Signature Member:     ISEA -NF
                                       (International Society of Experimental Artist - Nautilus Fellow)
Public Collections:       Florida School of the Arts
Lived In:                       Africa, Latin America
Travels:                        About 40 countries around the world
Goals:                            To continue to create and promote my art work

Exhibitions:

Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL              11/13*
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL              10/13*           
Big Art Center                                        Sanibel Island, FL                09/13*
Art Center                                               Sarasota, FL                          06/13
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL              06/13*
Artist Workshop                                    New Smyrna Beach, FL      04/13*
Beaux Arts                                              Palm Coast, FL                     04/13            
Ridgeart                                                  Winterhaven, FL                  04/13*
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL              04/13
Artist Workshop                                    New Smyrna Beach, FL      03/04
Art Leagu                                                Daytona Beach, FL              01/13
Beaux Arts                                              Daytona Beach, FL              12/12*
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL              09/12*
North Shore Art Assn                          Gloucester, MA                     09/12*           
Gateway Center for the Arts               Deltona, FL                           05/12
Artist Workshop                                   New Smyrna Beach, FL      04/12*           
Osceola Art Center                               Osceola, FL                           04/12
Ridgeart Association                            Winterhaven, FL                 04/12*
Daytona Beach Art League                  Daytona Beach, FL             02/12
DeBary City Hall                                   DeBary, FL                           02/12***solo
Florida Museum of Women Artists  DeLand,FL                            01/12
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL             12/11*
The Casements                                      Ormond Beach, FL             11/11
Fifth Avenue Gallery                            Melbourne, FL                     08/11
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL             07/11*
GDP Studios                                           Shelton, WA                        06/11*
Cigar Factory/WTCA                            Tampa, FL                           01/11
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL             01/11*
Avalon Gallery                                       Orlando, FL                         01/11*
Avalon Gallery                                       Orlando, FL                         12/10*
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL             12/10
Artist Workshop                                    New Smyrna Beach, FL    10/10
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL            10/10            
Artspace                                                  New Smyrna Beach, FL    09/10***solo
Florida Museum for Women Artists DeLand, FL                         07/10++
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL            07/10*
Artisan Gallery                                       DeLand, FL                        06/10***solo
Ormond Museum                                  Ormond, FL                       06/10
Naples Museum of Art                         Naples, FL                           05/10
Museum of Florida Art                        Deland, FL                          04/10
Maitland Art Center                             Maitland, FL                       01/10
Gateway Ctr for the Arts                     Deltona, FL                         03/10***5
Art League                                              Daytona Beach, FL            02/10***5+
Art League                                             Daytona Beach, FL             01/10++
Maitland Art Center                             Maitland, FL                       09/09
The Banana Factory                             Bethelem, PA                      08/09
Brevard Museum of Art                       Melbourne, FL                   06/09
Gateway Center for the Arts               Deltona, FL                         04/09
Florida School of the Arts                   Palatka, FL                         10/08***solo
Brevard Museum of Art                      Melbourne, FL                   07/08
Ridge Art Association                         Winter Haven, FL              03/08*
New York Times Nat’l Show              Tampa, FL                           01/08*
St. Augustine Art Assn                        St. Augustine, FL                01/08*
Ridge Art Association                         Winter Haven, FL              12/07*
Bascom-Louise Gallery                       Highlands, NC                   10/07
St Augustine Art Assn                         St. Augustine, FL               10/07*
Ridge Art Association                         Winter Haven, FL              09/07*
St Augustine Art Assn                         St. Augustine, FL               06/07*
Art League                                             Daytona Beach , FL           04/07***2
De Vos Museum                                   Marquette, MI                    06/06*
St. Augustine Art Assn                        St .Augustine, FL               02/06*
Mt Dora Art Center                             Mt Dora, FL                         02/06*
St. Augustine Art Assn                        St. Augustine, FL               02/06*
Triad Show                                            New Smyrna Beach, FL    10/05***3
Catch 22 Gallery                                   St. Augustine, FL               07/05***3
Peninsula Fine Arts Center                Newport News, VA            06/05
Abbott Tract Artists                             St. Augustine, FL               05/05***solo
Artist Workshop                                   New Smyrna Beach, FL    04/05*
Ridge Art Assn                                      Winterhaven, FL               02/05*
Art League                                             Daytona Beach, FL            02/05***2
Artist Workshop                                  New Smyrna Beach, FL    01/05*
Int'l Society Experimental Artists    Fort Myers, FL                   10/04*
New Smyrna Beach Gallery               New Smyrna Beach, FL    08/04***solo
Comma Gallery                                    Orlando, FL                         07/04***3
Eustis Museum of Art                         Eustis, FL                            06/04***solo
           
            *  award received
            ***  small group show with number in show
            ++ installation