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Patrick O'Brien

Georgetown, Texas, United States •
Artist (Photography, Digital Arts) •
Born 1953 •
"Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange." Rene Magritte

W. Patrick O’Brien was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After his parents gifted him with a Kodak Hawkeye camera on his 10th birthday, Patrick developed a fascination with viewing the world through the window of a camera viewfinder. However, it was his love of music that introduced him to album cover graphics, especially with the psychedelic art of that time, which changed how he looked at graphic content.  After graduating with a degree in Multimedia, Patrick has worked as a darkroom technician, commercial photographer, and retired after 24 years as an audio/video producer and forensic investigator. The motivation for his images and the desire to create them is a philosophy he shares with one of his greater influences, the surrealist Rene Magritte, whose motive was to "restore the familiar to the strange."

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Digital Arts titled "Light Painting 442" by Patrick O'Brien, Original Artwork, Light Painting
Light Painting 442 - Digital Arts ©2022 by Patrick O'Brien - Surrealism, surrealism-627, Geometric, light, camera, action, monochrome, long exposure, painting, photography
"Light Painting 442"

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Digital Arts titled "Light Painting 445" by Patrick O'Brien, Original Artwork, Light Painting
Light Painting 445 - Digital Arts ©2022 by Patrick O'Brien - Surrealism, surrealism-627, Geometric, light, camera, action, monochrome, abstract, long exposure, painting
"Light Painting 445"

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Digital Arts titled "Light Painting 412" by Patrick O'Brien, Original Artwork, Light Painting
Light Painting 412 - Digital Arts ©2022 by Patrick O'Brien - Surrealism, surrealism-627, Geometric, light, monochrome, painting, abstract, surreal, long exposure, camera, action
"Light Painting 412"

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Digital Arts titled "Light Painting 406" by Patrick O'Brien, Original Artwork, Light Painting
Light Painting 406 - Digital Arts ©2022 by Patrick O'Brien - Surrealism, surrealism-627, Geometric, light, camera, action, monochrome, painting, long exposure
"Light Painting 406"

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W. Patrick O’Brien was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After his parents gifted him with a Kodak Hawkeye camera on his 10th birthday, Patrick developed a fascination with viewing the world through the window of a camera viewfinder. However, it was his love of music that introduced him to album cover graphics, especially with the psychedelic art of that time, which changed how he looked at graphic content.  After graduating with a degree in Multimedia, Patrick has worked as a darkroom technician, commercial photographer, and retired after 24 years as an audio/video producer and forensic investigator. The motivation for his images and the desire to create them is a philosophy he shares with one of his greater influences, the surrealist Rene Magritte, whose motive was to "restore the familiar to the strange."

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Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Jerry Uelsmann, Rene Magritte, Aaron Siskind

Education

1971 - 1976 Bachelor of Arts Houston, TX, United States

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2019 "15Th Annual Peoples Gallery Exhibition", Austin City Hall, Austin, TX, United States
2019 "32Nd Annual Members' Only Show", Cain Arts Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
2018 "14Th Annual Peoples Gallery Exhibition", Austin City Hall, Austin, TX, United States
2018 "Imagine 2018", Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, United States
2018 "Macro Photography", Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, United States
2018 "Foto Texas 2", Museum Of Big Bend, Alpine, TX, United States
2018 "Artists Choice", Fusion.com Online Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, United States
2018 "Art Hop", Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, United States
2018 "Abstractions", Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, United States
2017 "Imagine 2017", Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, United States
2017 "Artists Interpret Blue", Artspace, Round Rock, TX, United States
2017 "Annual Fall Photography Show", Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, United States
2017 "Art Hop", Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, United States
2017 "Vistas", A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, United States
2017 "Quarterly Group Art Exposition", Fusion.com Online Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, United States
2017 "Response", A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, United States
2016 "Imagine", Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, United States
2016 "Reds", A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, United States
2016 "Abstracted", Artspace, Round Rock, TX, United States
2016 "Animals", Artspace, Round Rock, TX, United States
2016 "Third Coast 2016", K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
2016 "Annual Fall Photography Show", Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, United States
2016 "Light", A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, United States
2016 "Visions 2016", Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA, United States
2016 "Celebration And Remembrance", Artspace, Round Rock, TX, United States
2016 "Trees", A. Smith Gallery Johnson City, TX, United States

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