Irean Olier Oakley at The Brigham Galleries

Irean Olier Oakley

Irean Olier Oakley is a New England native who now lives and works on Nantucket Island. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in 1991 and has been working and exhibiting her representational sculpture in bronze, wood and marble ever since.

She has studied with several important sculptors of international renown and has spent many summers studying art in Pietrasanta, Italy and most recently at “The Center for American Sculpture” in Brookgreen Gardens, S.C. focusing on the challenging difficulties of base relief.

Since creating her first sculptures in 1985, she has sought to convey the many roles of modern woman. Her works, whether it be sculpture in the round, base relief or portraiture, seem to capture a reflective “moment in time”. Her figures are delicately modeled, yet have a strong sense of volume, rhythm and surface animation. The pensive female figures convey an inner state of woman and a depth of relationships between mother and child.


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Jan Brough	Paul Brown	Stubbs & Brown	John Caggiano	Robert Caputo
Neilson Carlin	Dennis Cheaney	James Childs	Tim Coote	Kamille Corry
Paul Dougherty	Hunter Eddy	John Evans	Giacomo Favretto	Sean Forester
Samuel L. Gerry	Laurie Goddard	James Jeffrey Grant	Daniel Graves	Daniel Greene
Emile A. Gruppe	Richard Halstead	Alexander T. Harrison	Gundula Jacobs	Ted Seth Jacobs
Curtis Jaunsen	Susan Ricker Knox	Urban Larsson	William F. Macy	Leo Mancini-Hresko
Jennifer Marlow	Bryan Maycock	Evelyn McFarlane	Stan Moeller	Yuki Murata
Andrea Nutt	Irean Olier Oakley	Todd Reifers	Marguerite S. Pearson	Carolyn Pyfrom
Linda H. Reynolds	Adam Rhude	Volney A. Richardson	Laura Robb	Charles D. Robinson
Paula Rubino	Ramiro Sanchez	Henry Sandham	Sallie Scruggs	Eric Sloane
Jordan Sokol	Brandon Soloff	Helena Sturtevant	Martine Vaugel	Leah Waichulis
Jerry Weiss	Joyce Washor	William Whitaker	Nelson White	Toby Wright
	Charles H. Woodbury		HongNian Zhang

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Irean Olier Oakley Irean Olier Oakley is a New England native who now lives and works on Nantucket Island. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in 1991 and has been working and exhibiting her representational sculpture in bronze, wood and marble ever since. She has studied with several important sculptors of international renown and has spent many summers studying art in Pietrasanta, Italy and most recently at “The Center for American Sculpture” in Brookgreen Gardens, S.C. focusing on the challenging difficulties of base relief. Since creating her first sculptures in 1985, she has sought to convey the many roles of modern woman. Her works, whether it be sculpture in the round, base relief or portraiture, seem to capture a reflective “moment in time”. Her figures are delicately modeled, yet have a strong sense of volume, rhythm and surface animation. The pensive female figures convey an inner state of woman and a depth of relationships between mother and child.