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A Button of Every Person

I have made a button of every person I have met and remember.  I have made over 500 unique buttons that were sold in vending machines for 25 cents each. To make a button, I had to remember bot the...

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Pep Talk Squad

The Pep Talk Squad is a two-person DIY operation and collaboration between Christina Amini and myself. Simply put, we wear jackets with the words “Pep Talk Squad” on the back and we like listening to...

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San Jose Artist-in-Residency

I have always been fascinated by the strangeness and beauty of the manicured yards, lawns and hedges of the homes in the neighborhood where I grew up. I put flyers in each mailbox on Lansford Ave. in...

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3 Chances

three chances from Susan O’Malley on Vimeo.

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Desire To Fly

Desire to Fly from Alex Clausen & Susan O’Malley on Vimeo. When artist Alex Clausen and I met Alexander La Riviere, proprietor of Faber’s Cyclery and bicycle accident investigator of San Jose, CA,...

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How To Be an Artist-in-Residence

How To Be An Aritst in Residence, San Jose, CA from Susan O’Malley on Vimeo.  

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A Few Yards in San Jose

A Few Yards in San Jose from Susan O’Malley on Vimeo.

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Survival Flags

These Survival Flags are made out of old tablecloths and sheets screen and printed with glow-in-the dark paints for the Survival Annex at the Curiosity Shoppe, San Francisco. Perfect for any survival...

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Inspirational Signs

   A room filled with inspirational phrases saying things like: You Are Exactly Where You Need To Be or Be Here Now were installed at the Ping Pong Gallery in San Francisco. I also made inspirational...

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My Healing Garden is Green

With a strained hand my mom wrote My Healing Garden is Green after she was diagnosed with a rare and terminal neurological disease called Multiple Systems Atrophy. Her handwriting was just one part of...

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Community Advice

     I interviewed a few shy of 100 people in Palo Alto for this project. I asked: What advice would you give your 8-year-old self? What advice would you give your 80-year-old self? Using the words of...

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A Healing Walk

A Healing Walk, 2012, Wood, paint and hardware   A Healing Walk (This Beautiful Moment), 2013, Wood, paint and hardware   A Healing Walk (You Look Up), 2013, Wood, paint and hardware   Nine signs...

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One Minute Smile

(This is where you smile and time yourself for one minute). I originally performed this with a generous audience as part of a conversation about happiness at Montalvo Arts Center on February 20, 2013....

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A Space (for you)

This project was supported by Lucas Artist Program at the Montalvo Arts Center for the exhibition Happiness Is… In addition to creating a space for visitors to sit down and relax, I organized several...

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Happiness Is…

Installation views of a group exhibition Happiness Is… with Christine Wong Yap and Leah Rosenberg. Christine Wong Yap, Irrational Exuberance Flags; Leah Rosenberg, Striped Benches and Illuminated...

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Mantras for the Urban Dweller (Moment to Moment)

I am thrilled my work is included in Moment to Moment, a magazine happening in real time, through various media outlets, and in cities around the world throughout the summer and fall of 2013. This...

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Finding Your Center

Photo Credit: John Wlson White, Courtesy of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Listen to track one Finding Your Center is a self-help audio tour and distributed sculptural installation that playfully...

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Your Body is The Architecture

A series of signs inviting visitors at the Parthenon Museum in Nashville, TN to playfully engage with the architecture of the building. The project was commissioned by the Parthenon Museum for Flex...

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