Luke Patrick O'Halloran (born 1991 in

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) is a

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living and working in

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. He is known for his paintings and drawings of ''forever spinning wheels'', detailed portraits of slot machines in motion.

Career

Luke O'Halloran was born in

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and received his BFA from the

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in 2014. He lived in Colorado for seven years before moving to

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, where he worked out of his Brooklyn apartment until 2022. O'Halloran typically paints and draws various subjects in motion including slot machines and casino games, bowling balls, fruits falling from baskets, and free falling cats. Of the cats, O'Halloran notes that felines have both a nonlethal terminal velocity and a righting reflex, adaptations he hopes humans can strive for one day. He is also known for the use of playing cards as a subject, painting them falling through the air, being built into houses of cards, or as tools for magicians' tricks. Influences include early Jasper Johns's number paintings and Vija Celmins. He has shown at galleries including Almioe Rech,

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, Gavlak Gallery, and Kapp Kapp. In 2021, his work was shown alongside Sarah Charlesworth's at the Winter Street Gallery in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:OHalloran, Luke Patrick American artists 1991 births Living people Painters from California