John Jerome O’Connor (born 1972) is an American artist primarily known for his large-scale, labor-intensive, abstract works on paper. In these works, O'Connor transforms information through idiosyncratic processes, creating equally idiosyncratic abstract shapes, forms, and patterns. His works draw on relationships between spoken and written language, psychological fallacies, self-experimentation, mathematics, emergence in science and anthropology, and climate prediction and error. O'Connor's works map transformations from one known state into another – those that occur quickly and ferociously, as in a political revolution where a system of beliefs can be upended in an instant, or when an earthquake tears the ground apart in a flash. He's equally interested in how substantive change occurs incrementally, almost imperceptibly. In these phase changes, the exact moment of transformation is virtually imperceptible (the moment when rain becomes ice, or when we turn from a believer into an agnostic). O'Connor explores these phenomena as they exist in diverse aspects of human life - natural, mathematical, social, psychological, and political. His work attempts to visually fix the specific, imperceptible moments of a transformation, from the mundane to the monumental. Early work Influenced by the art and music of John Cage while studying at Pratt Institute, O'Connor created abstractions based on chance operations. In 1998 he made a series of small drawings by dipping jazz brushes in ink before playing them directly on paper. Each drawing represented a specific beat per minute played for a specific duration. In the late 1990s, O'Connor begin to explore systematic approaches to art making through drawing. These works were diagrammatic and process based. Though the compositions were simpler in these and other experimental works made in this period, O'Connor was laying the basic groundwork for his future methods and defining his unique conceptual framework, which he expanded at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. Recent work O'Connor's central works are large-scale drawings on paper made with colored pencil, and graphite. He also makes sculpture, photography, collage, and digital art. O'Connor is a member of the artist collective NonCoreProjector. Their project "Verbolect" is a multi-media work that explores the relationship between AI and human language, emotion, endurance, and computer-based introspection. Drawings O'Connor's drawings are large-scale, detailed, meticulous pieces on paper that bridge text and language with abstraction and pattern. With their integration of information and language with shapes, forms, logos, pop imagery, and patterns, O'Connor's works link the process of