Gumball Machine with Red Floral with Dots Painting

Born Herkimer, New York Maureen O'Connor has been called "a masterful painter of our favorite things" by Randi Hopkins, Associate Curator at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. Her work is in the collections of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Very Fine Juices, Boston Medical Center, . O'Connor's work has appeared in the David Mamet film Lipservice, filmed in Boston. She is represented by the Jack Meier Gallery of Houston, Texas A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, O’Connor has been exhibiting in Boston since the early 1980s, and her work held in numerous public and private collections, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Goodwin and Proctor, and Fidelity Investments. She is known for her playful still lifes of so-called tchotchke’s -- miscellaneous objects collected around the home -- and candy, often paired with floral or polka dot wallpaper. Lively and bright, her paintings are tinged with nostalgia, recalling 1970s interiors with their fun patterns and decidedly analog subjects. Her favorite subject: a pair of ceramic ducks given to her by her former roommate’s Parisian mother. These small inanimate knick knacks find new life under O’Connor’s brush, turning their seemingly quizzical expressions on gumball machines, rubber ducky toys, flowers, and each other. Each work allows the artist the opportunity to explore interactions of light and shadow, color and pattern, and a variety of surfaces. Education Diploma, Painting & Printmaking, Art Institute of Boston, 1979 BFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, 1981