Drawn to Sound in New York

O’Hara is largely associated with performance and music and her art reflects various kinds of movement, energy, sounds, and sensations. For Drawn to Sound in New York, she worked from a drawing made during a live performance by the New York-based band Drawn to Sound. Using a pencil, she drew the movement of the hands of the three musicians (one on trombone, one on laptop, and one on percussion) on ten different sheets of tracing paper, each of which would correspond to a different screen. Her marks are rendered with various tones of grey ranging from pale to dark graphite. The irregularity and scratchy quality of her lines correspond to the sensation of her drawing, the movement of the musicians, and the sound of the music itself. While she was drawing, a microphone recorded the sound of O'Hara's mark making and her flipping through sheets of paper, as well as that of the musicians performing, thus memorializing the performance as well as O'Hara's response.