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Christy E. O’Connor (b.1982) is an Interdisciplinary Artist from the NY Metro Area. O’Connor creates immersive installations and narrative bodies of work as story telling devices. Through a combination of 2d mixed media, sculpture, wearable art, and performance, she depicts female archetypes and surreal entities inspired by mythology and literature, historical reference points, and contemporary media.

O'Connor will be featuring her work from her series On Love & Consumption, a body of mixed media works that plays on a kitsch aesthetic and a maximalist approach that critiques higher social classes and gender through satire and dark humor. Using the historical archetype of Marie Antoinette, reimagined with a modern twist, I examine the current state of late stage capitalism and its parallels to the French Revolution in terms of wealth inequality and economic oppression, coupled with the seemingly insatiable appetites of the upper crust.

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