The art of avoidance

“Conspiracy Shape” (graphite and colored pencil on paper), by John O’Connor, in his show "John O’Connor: Self Avoiding Walks’’, at Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, Providence, through Dec. 10.

The gallery explains that Mr. O’Connor “combines text, sketch, and musings reminiscent of field journals with influence and undertones that show what ultimately cannot be avoided. His drawings evolve incrementally over long spans of time, as O’Connor absorbs, plots, and transforms information into vibrantly colored pieces that straddle an aesthetic line between diagrams and fully articulated structures, forms, and spaces.”

Based in the New York City area, he’s originally from Westfield, Mass.

Downtown Westfield and Park Square