“Technique is the Consequence of Concept.”

 For me, art is a human response and a human experience. My art is alive and it needs to exhibit human traits. Some of my paintings have aggressive players where shapes and colors jockey for the front position. I also make paintings that are more reserved. They stand quietly watching the other paintings bounce off of the walls.

 When I am creating my art, I may not know exactly where I am heading but I do know how to get there.  I follow a working path of expected surprises and fearless exploration to create unique visual experiences. Collaborating with my partners, the material and the surface, I often relinquish control to their nuances and idiosyncrasies. During the construction process, the three of us engage in real and complicated conversations. We allow technique to be the consequence of concept.

I venture with curiosity and some trepidation but, seldom am I afraid of that which I might not know. Similar to peeking, I adjust as I go.

Yes, in the making of that which is art, I find it tolerable to simply create unique visual experiences – juicy and gooey visual experiences.

Bio:   Indiana artist, Phil O’Malley lived his first decade about forty miles west of Cape Cod. “I was born an artist. It is part of my constitution.” From strokes of fate, he lived the next four decades painting in the Midwest. Phil studied Interior Design in the Purdue School of Engineering and, with continued education, earned a BFA from the Herron School of Art and Design. He is a professional studio artist and designer located at The Stutz Business Center, Indianapolis, IN.

As a professional, Phil has concocted two and three dimensional works in fine art, culinary art, interior design, architectural design, graphic design, and event design. All of these endeavors have symbiotically fed his art to maturity. “I have wielded a brush since as long as anything that I can remember. I must have always conducted my productions with assistance from a real or imagined bristled-baton.”

My recent endeavors embrace a body of work respecting art and physics; creativity is coupled with gravity and motion.   I create both linear and cylindrical visual journeys where one steps into the painting or travels around, back, and forth while watching them change perpetually.