Luke Patrick O'Halloran (born 1991 in Thousand Oaks, California) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. [1] He is known for his paintings and drawings of forever spinning wheels, detailed portraits of slot machines in motion. [2] [3]
Luke O'Halloran was born in California and received his BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014. [3] He lived in Colorado for seven years before moving to New York, where he worked out of his Brooklyn apartment until 2022. [4] [5] 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. [6] 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. [5] 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. [1] Influences include early Jasper Johns's number paintings and Vija Celmins. [2] He has shown at galleries including Almioe Rech, OCDChinatown, Gavlak Gallery, and Kapp Kapp. [6] In 2021, his work was shown alongside Sarah Charlesworth's at the Winter Street Gallery in Martha's Vineyard. [7]