Billyo O’Donnell
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Work
Billyo O’Donnell
Above the Junction, Canyon de Chelly, 2023
Oil on panel
24 x 30 inches
$ 6,500
Crisp Light, Canyon de Chelly, 2023
Oil on panel
12 x 16 inches
$ 2,500
Colorful Valley, Canyon de Chelly, 2023
Oil on panel
16 x 12 inches
$ 2,500
Quiet Valley, Antelope House, 2023
Oil on panel
9 x 12 inches
$ 1,500
Experience
Background & Education
Received his BFA from Missouri State University.
Artist Statement
I am focused on the visual experience working from life and in the studio to develop the surface quality of a painting that is rich in texture. I often play with how the two relate or struggle for the viewers attention, how the surface language takes you from the image and into the paint and brings about a language all its own in structure and abstraction through the marks.
Bibliography
Jackson, Devon. “Sophy Brown, Horse Play,” Southwest Art magazine, January 1970. LINK
Kolpas, Norman. “Sophy Brown,” Western Art & Architecture, July 2022. LINK
Denison, Jennifer. “Straight Up,” Western Horseman, October 2016. LINK
Editors. “27th Coors Western Art Exhibit Names Sophy Brown Featured Artist,” Fine Art Connoisseur, December 2019. LINK
Wenzel, John. “Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale a million-dollar, career-making event at National Western Stock Show,” Denver Post, January 19, 2019. LINK
Teichert, Gina. “Horse Power: Sophy Brown’s Western paintings capture the energy and unpredictable nature of the horse,” Western Art Collector, LINK
Wolf, Stephanie. “Artist Sophy Brown’s Obsession With Horses Fits Right In At The National Western Stock Show,” Colorado Public Radio, January 20, 2020. LINK
Featured, The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis, Plein Air magazine, Lines and Colors (art blog), Art Of the West, “Sea to Shinning Sea”, “Painting Missouri”.
Selected Exhibitions: Irvine Musuem, Steamboat Art Musuem, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Mercantile Library St. Louis, MO, Margaret Harwell Museum of Art, Stock Farm Club, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Kansas City Library, Haggin Museum of Art, “Sea to Shinning Sea”.
Awards
Best in Show, Voted into PAPA, Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational
Independent Artist Award, Missouri Arts Councils, presented in the Rotunda of State Capital
Best in Show, Maui Plein Air Invitational
Judge of Awards, Brush of Spring – New Harmony
IN & Door County Plein Air Festival – Door County, WI.
Arts Advocacy Award, Missouri Citizens for the Arts.
Address
2200 S University Blvd.
Denver, Colorado 80210
Open Hours
Tuesday – Friday: 11am – 5pm
Saturday: 12 – 4pm
Holidays: Closed