Artist Talk at the Innovation Studio + Store: Danni O'Brien

Friday, October 25, 2024 / 6PM

Join us for a conversation with current Innovation Studio Artist in Residence, , and MoCA Arlington Curator of Exhibitions, Blair Murphy.

Hear more about the development, process, and practice of O'Brien's work in the artist talk beginning at 6:15pm. Free.

Available to livestream on either MoCA Arlington's Facebook or YouTube page. Follow the link to tune in at the event time!

About the Artist

(she/they), b. 1992 in Falls Church, Virginia, is a Baltimore based, interdisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice is rooted in irreverence, tinkering, and owned queerness. Through scavenging and collecting, O’Brien assembles a reservoir of images, objects, and material from which to concoct enigmatic assemblages. In the studio, they cycle through continuous acts of deconstruction and reconstruction, and employ assemblage, cyanotype, ceramic handbuilding, paper making, mold making and casting, CNC routing, and woodworking, to concoct amalgamated sculptures and reliefs. O’Brien exhibits these works at venues such as Current Space, Hamiltonian Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. She has been awarded residencies with PLOP, The Wassaic Project, Byrdcliffe Colony, Art Farm, Baltimore Clayworks, and Stove Works. They are the recipient of a 2022 Individual Artist Grant from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development and a 2024 Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. O’Brien recently completed a semester-long artist in residency with Furman University in Greenville, SC and the alumni residency at Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and is looking towards a solo exhibition in the winter of 2025 with Stove Works Gallery.

Work Pictured: Danni O'Brien. Low Hanging Fruit

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

MoCA Arlington Innovation Studio + Store, 525 14th Street South, Arlington, United States