Join us for a conversation with artist Maureen O'Leary, historian Miriam Nyhan Grey, and curator Pamela Jean Tinnen as they discuss the history and impact of Ireland's Easter Rising through the lens of O'Leary's series Portraits of Ireland's Easter Rising Leaders on view in Schwartz Plaza Vitrines through June 17, 2022.
Artist Maureen O'Leary paints at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. By experimenting with garish colors and rapid brushstrokes, she creates portraits that emanate emotion and presence. A first-generation Irish American and New Yorker, she began to contemplate how history is passed on generationally and in the Irish-American diaspora. In an exercise of interrogation of her own ethnic and family history she created American Portraits of Ireland's Easter Rising Leaders.
