Known for his deep engagement with the legacies of modernist architecture and the atmospheres of historical places, O’Kane’s latest body of work revisits the studios of iconic artists Edvard Munch at Ekely in Oslo and Claude Monet at Giverny in France. These intimate depictions reflect on the spaces where artistic vision is formed—where the personal, the architectural, and the natural merge.
The exhibition also includes striking new paintings of Eileen Gray’s E-1027, Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa Bo Bardi, Walter Gropius’s office, and the Los Angeles residence of writer Thomas Mann. Each architectural subject is reimagined through O’Kane’s distinctive lens, revealing both the cultural resonance of these spaces and their poetic potential.
Alongside these works, the exhibition features vibrant prints and meditative paintings of trees—a recurring motif in O’Kane’s practice that speaks to time, memory, and environmental consciousness. These botanical studies form a quiet counterpoint to the modernist structures, bridging the organic and the constructed.
The title of one of the works In Dreams Begins Responsibility—borrowed from a poem by W. B. Yeats and later a short story by Delmore Schwartz—hints at the layered interplay of dream, history, and creative obligation that runs through the exhibition. O’Kane invites viewers into spaces where artistic legacy and personal reflection coalesce, offering an immersive journey through the architectures of imagination and the landscapes of remembrance.
Eamon O’Kane is an internationally exhibited artist and professor based in Norway and Denmark. His work has been shown at institutions and galleries across Europe and North America, and he is widely recognized for his multifaceted explorations of architecture, ecology, memory, and pedagogy.