Untitled Pastoral

Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor (American, b. 1963)
Untitled Pastoral, 2006
Work on paper
24 × 23 in.
Framed.

O'Connor received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Fellowship and an artist residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum and featured at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Teaching faculty at UC Davis.

A teeming cast of figures — gas-masked wanderers, animals, hybrid forms packed into a landscape that's somewhere between pastoral and post-apocalyptic. O'Connor builds her compositions from found textile scraps and layered mark-making. The drawing has the density of her large-scale sculptural assemblages, compressed onto a single sheet.