Micaela O'Herlihy
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Multimedia artist
Multimedia artists are contemporary artists who use a wide range of media to communicate their art. Multimedia art includes, by definition, more than one medium, therefore multimedia artists use visual art in combination with sound art, moving images and other media...
best known for her short experimental film A Thunderperfect Mind which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
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Micaela likes to paint and draw on paper, cloth and film. She works in sound, paint, paper, trash, 16 and 8 mm film, burlap, DV and cardboard. She ventured into film when she realized she was constantly trying to make her paintings move. Her sole collaborator is her small son Thurman Fionn. Her grandfather is Dan O'Herlihy and her siblings are Colin O'Herlihy and Eilis O'Herlihy.
In 1999 she received a BFA in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
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and in 2003 an MFA from UW-Milwaukee. Her recent day jobs have included adjunct professor, translator for people with severe speech impediments, farm laborer, urology
Urology
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technician, and paranormal videographer.
Andrew Martinez
Andrew Martinez
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was O'Herlihy's first boyfriend.
Recent film screenings
- Periwinkle Cinema San Francisco 2011
- Grand Arts Missouri 2007
- Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Nationwide 2004
- Sundance Film Festival Utah 2004
- Consolidated Works Seattle 2003
- Women in the Directors Chair Chicago 2003
- Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles 2002