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Display of 'Skullptures' shatters
conceptions of childhood, reality
By Julie Decker
Emerald Contributor
Portland artist Dennis O'Connor's
"Skullptures." < urrently on displa\ .it the l-.Ml
Gallery, -ire as haunting as the name implies
This exhibit is not for the weak, nor for those
who lack imagination. It is not tor those with a
fragile view of reality O’Connor's sculpture's
challenge the viewer to he shocked
O'Connor's art background ini hides a year of
study at the Oregon Art Institute in Portland His
work has previously been shown in Portland at
Pullian Nugent. Blue Gallery. Artquake and most
recently at the Northwest Artist Workshop
The "Skullptures'' currently on display are
made up of work done in the past two years
They are a fusion of rough hewn, severed and
displaced found ohjei ts that are fashioned into
towering totems
One can only guess yvhether the fabrii ot the
sculptures equals the fabric of the artist s mind II
so. O'Connor's mind may he a dark place, fore
boding, vet daring the rvayyvard traveler to he
i nine trapped in its mysterious compartments
caught in the mechanized rveb of its intensity
If O'Connor’s images are descriptive of reali
tv. then the world may he full of nameless shape
less faces faces which are filled with horror
and morbidity The machinery and technology ot
today are not merely signs ol advancement, but
rather symbols of control, representations of lives
being thrown together, proi essed and produi ing
a cloned society ol mindless dolls
The exhibit includes several sculptures, eai h
with a different touch, but still maintaining a
continuous flow ot strong, subjective mental im
ages Heads of dolls, wooden spoons, c rah i layy.s
and bright geometru shapes all re-occur through
out the exhibit. included as part ol the network ot
machinery
Throughout the exhibit the viewer is pulled
in. becoming part ot the process, sloyy ly relormu
I outlet Pholti
Dennis O'Connor's "Skullpturvs" .irr totrm
poles of a different reality. They are on dis
play until ()< t t> in the t.SII hallery
lilting realitv <tn<l shattnring the emu ept of inm>
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Bound figures hang from .1 rei klesslv lull
anted mass made up of svmhols of vsar The
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