Deirdre O'Connell: New Portraits

SEFA Hudson is pleased to announce a solo presentation of new paintings by Deirdre O’Connell. The exhibition is on view from February 12th through April 26th. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, February 14th from 4-6PM with O’Connell at the Gallery.

The series featured include figure studies of O’Connell’s friends and colleagues—the characters within her daily life—writers, producers, actors and more. These people are significant to the artist, who is deeply enmeshed in the New York City theater world. Yet, their decorative qualities endow them with a pure visual pleasure, able to be appreciated by all. In the “Zoom Meeting Portraits,” viewers are met with close-ups of the faces, expressions, gestures and interiors that O’Connell observed through her computer screen, translating these elements through her mixed-media techniques.

Deirdre O'Connell was born in Philadelphia and raised in Pittsfield, MA. She is a self-trained artist, who attended the Studio School, NYC in 2003. Since 2007, O’Connell has been featured in numerous solo, two-person and group exhibitions at SEFA’s New York City and Upstate locations. In 2022, O’Connell won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for the production "Dana H."