For today's Fresh Art Friday, we're going to look at the work of Robyn O'Neil.
O'Neil is an American born artist primarily doing works on paper in graphite. Despite how small the works look on this blog, the scale of her work is LARGE and very labor intensive. O'Neil's series discussed below uses the smallest .3 CM mechanical pencil and the largest commercially available sheets of paper at over 6.5 feet high, creating unique challenges to transferring her vision.
A falling stump, 2006
The Disruption, 2007
This place in the world, 2007
O'Neil recently concluded a roughly 7 year long project narrating the end of the world through her unique perspective. Focusing on middle-aged men sporting sweatsuits and chuck taylor like shoes, O'Neil's series explores the fate of this invented population.
A birth in grief and ashes, 2007
A fracture, 2007
As ye the sinister creep and fein, those once held become now those slain, 2004
The resulting images are elaborate, bizarre fairytale scenes that involve complex narratives (1). O'Neil has previously stated that while she knew the end was inevitable, she was just as surprised at the series ending images as her viewers were. Often pulling from epic writings, poems or songs, O'Neil's images hold their own in a world of beautiful prose.
These final hours embrace at last; this is our ending, this is our past, 2007 (this is the Modern's piece!)
O'Neil lives and works in Houston and will be visiting the Modern this coming Tuesday for a free lecture at 7. If you plan on attending feel free to email me and we'll meet up. Enjoy!
Wanna learn more?
I adore this interview with Robyn.
You can catch her on twitter here.
You can chat with her on FB here.
I hope you enjoyed Robyn's work!
-DBC
Fresh Art Friday posts are intended for the sole purpose of promoting excellence in the arts community. The author of these posts is honored to share interesting, innovative and high quality art with Almond Milk & Honey readers. The author in no way intends to deprive the originating artist of his or her copyright status and readers are encouraged to respect the copyright status of all works posted.
O'Neil is an American born artist primarily doing works on paper in graphite. Despite how small the works look on this blog, the scale of her work is LARGE and very labor intensive. O'Neil's series discussed below uses the smallest .3 CM mechanical pencil and the largest commercially available sheets of paper at over 6.5 feet high, creating unique challenges to transferring her vision.
A falling stump, 2006
The Disruption, 2007
This place in the world, 2007
O'Neil recently concluded a roughly 7 year long project narrating the end of the world through her unique perspective. Focusing on middle-aged men sporting sweatsuits and chuck taylor like shoes, O'Neil's series explores the fate of this invented population.
A birth in grief and ashes, 2007
A fracture, 2007
As ye the sinister creep and fein, those once held become now those slain, 2004
The resulting images are elaborate, bizarre fairytale scenes that involve complex narratives (1). O'Neil has previously stated that while she knew the end was inevitable, she was just as surprised at the series ending images as her viewers were. Often pulling from epic writings, poems or songs, O'Neil's images hold their own in a world of beautiful prose.
These final hours embrace at last; this is our ending, this is our past, 2007 (this is the Modern's piece!)
O'Neil lives and works in Houston and will be visiting the Modern this coming Tuesday for a free lecture at 7. If you plan on attending feel free to email me and we'll meet up. Enjoy!
Wanna learn more?
I adore this interview with Robyn.
You can catch her on twitter here.
You can chat with her on FB here.
I hope you enjoyed Robyn's work!
-DBC
Fresh Art Friday posts are intended for the sole purpose of promoting excellence in the arts community. The author of these posts is honored to share interesting, innovative and high quality art with Almond Milk & Honey readers. The author in no way intends to deprive the originating artist of his or her copyright status and readers are encouraged to respect the copyright status of all works posted.
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