Billyo O'Donnell
Billyo O'Donnell
American, b. 1956
(American/Missouri b. 1956)
"Pure colorful thick paint, rich in texture to liven up your digs"
I am focused on the visual experience working from life and in the studio to develop the surface quality of a painting that is rich in texture. I often play with how the two relate or struggle for the viewers attention, how the surface language takes you from the image and into the paint and brings about a language all its own in structure and abstraction through the marks.
Education: Missouri State University, BFA.
Awards Honors: Voted into PAPA, Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational - Best in Show, Missouri Arts Councils “Independent Artist Award presented in the Rotunda of State Capital, Maui Plein Air Invitational - Best in Show. Judge of Awards; Brush of Spring - New Harmony, IN Door County Plein Air Festival - Door County, WI, Arts Advocacy Award - Missouri Citizens for the Arts.
Selected Publications: Featured, The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis, Plein Air magazine, Lines and Colors (art blog), Art Of the West, “Sea to Shinning Sea”, “Painting Missouri”.
Selected Exhibitions: Irvine Musuem, Steamboat Art Musuem, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Mercantile Library St. Louis, MO, Margaret Harwell Museum of Art, Stock Farm Club, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Kansas City Library, Haggin Museum of Art, “Sea to Shinning Sea”.
Selected Collections: Margaret Harwell Art Musuem, Mercantile Library, Dunnegan Gallery of Art.
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