An Artist Dialogue - Morgan O'Hara and Stephen Maine

In her LIVE TRANSMISSION series of works in graphite on paper, Morgan O’Hara tracks the movement in real time of a subject/collaborator, compressing into a single image a record of prolonged activity. Her approach to drawing as a mode of performance situates her within the current discussion around drawing’s more unconventional manifestations. Artist and critic Stephen Maine joins O’Hara to discuss her exhibitions LIVE TRANSMISSION: New Yorkers Reading as part of Art in the Windows and Art Wall on Third exhibition series at Mid-Manhattan Library, and the uses to which drawing may be put as a form of research into the visible world, inquiry into the invisible, and communication between the two realms.