Caroline O’Grady (b. 1997) is a Chicago-born, New York-based visual artist focused on painting. Prior to beginning her art practice, O’Grady received her Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. She works primarily with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paint. Working between figuration and abstraction, O’Grady deploys figures and forms less as subjects than as conduits for generating momentum within a still image. The figures become structural elements through which the composition oscillates, expands, or gathers force. She draws from the visual language of historical painting and fresco traditions, particularly their capacity to organize narrative, rhythm, and spatial illusion. Yet her process is anchored in gestural immediacy and improvisation, allowing the work to continually reconfigure itself rather than resolve into fixed meaning. Through these layered approaches, O’Grady produces images that feel simultaneously grounded and in motion; spaces where form performs, disrupts, and propels.