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February 8th 2008 02:36
Robyn O Neil
Robyn O Neil with her Art
Robyn O Neil is an intensely private visual artist who recently lifted the calibre of discussion on the Howard Stern show. Articulate and physically attractive, these are the qualities that may well have resulted in the shock jock saying yes to an interview.
Robyn has a new exhibition scheduled for later this month at New York’s Clementine Gallery. Titled “This is a Descending World” O Neil’s striking imagery tackles themes of “Man versus Nature. Nature Wins” according to a recent interview she did with Boston.com
Our Earth, Our Bodies and Our Decline
Here is part of an essay written by Shamim Momima describing Robyn’s latest show from clementine-gallery.com
“Robyn O'Neil's graphite on paper drawings, alternately epic and intimate, always intricate and precise, have cumulatively imagined a realm characterized by pervasive anxiety and melancholy beauty, where the threat (or promise?) of death may be the most powerful constant across her oeuvre. This is a descending world. makes explicit from its titular selection forward that this ongoing struggle between, at its simplest, good and evil is pushing for final resolution. The apocalypse has arrived, and it may offer some strange relief to the relentless, anxious current of fear and judgment that streams through all of O'Neil's work.”
Forgetting
Naturally I decided to post on Robyn’s work because I find it captivating but beyond that hearing the self confessed recluse showing an uncharacteristic extroverted side on the Howard Stern radio program clinched my fascination.
Looking at her illustrations I see a lot of details that commands closer observation. The sombre tone, raw shading and texture is emotive and appeals to my aesthetic tastes, another artist who’s work I hope makes it down under sometime.
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