Art

Jack O’Hearn was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1982. Upon graduating from the Art Institute of Boston in 2005, he began exhibiting his work in major cities across the U.S. He is most known for his urban, tromp l’oeil paintings, usually containing a subtle surrealism. People have described his work by saying that he “muses over the mundane objects of the everyday,” or that he “salutes to the lowbrow and the overlooked.” Jack O’Hearn spent 2007 living and working in Albuquerque, NM, then moved back to his home state of Massachusetts, where in 2008 he received a Fellowship for painting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He currently resides in Madison, WI and is an MFA candidate at UW Madison. He is also a member of The International Guild of Realism.