GALLERY 2
Material Presence:
Jilaine Jones + Fran O’Neill
Curated by Karen Wilkin
4 Mar. – 24 Apr. 2022
Brooklyn-based artist Fran O’Neill creates vibrant, swirling paintings in myriad, intensely hued colors. While O’Neill pays homage to the great abstract painters of the 20th century, her aesthetic is also based on personal experience. She utilizes unexpected moments from her past as the jumping off point for artistic explorations that look to recreate her perceptions rather than actual events. Movement—of the hand, brush, and paint—is integral to O’Neill’s work, as evidenced by her gestural style and the kinetic energy she captures on the canvas.
http://www.franoneill.com
Jilaine Jones is a sculptor. Her work contains ideas based on the phenomena of landscape, architecture, and the body, as well as being generated by the ideas in the structures themselves. She has been on the New York Studio School faculty since 2002. Solo exhibitions include New York Studio School, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries and Paul Mellon Art Center. Her work was included in the 2016 DeCordova Biennial and outdoor sculpture exhibitions at Chesterwood. Jones has received a Connecticut Commission Fellowship for Sculpture and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant. She has participated in residency fellowships including Triangle Arts Association, Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Edward Albee Foundation, Haystack School of Crafts, and Yaddo.
https://nyss.org/faculty/jilaine-jones
