Past
STRIDES
MARCH 27th - MAY 31st
An Australian-American, Fran O’Neill, was born in Wangaratta, Australia, and currently lives and works between Australia and Brooklyn, New York.
O'Neill attended Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, earning a BFA and Post Graduate Degree. Her post-graduate work continued at the New York Studio School's Certificate Program, and her MFA was completed at Brooklyn College. She has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation award. O’Neill’s solo exhibitions include at: Sears Peyton Gallery, NYC; Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; West End Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; David Schweitzer Contemporary, Bushwick, NY; Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; BMG Gallery, Adelaide, Australia; TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia; Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, John Davis Gallery, NY; New York Studio School, NY; and Sussex College, Hastings, UK. In 2016 her work was exhibited at MOCA in Jacksonville, FL in a group exhibition titled Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction, and most recently her work was included in Vital Presence, curated by David Cohen at 1GAPGallery, in Brooklyn and in November 2022; "Left Turn" at Equity Gallery, NYCO’Neill’s work has been included in various group shows throughout the USA and in Australia. She has recently taught at the New York Studio School, Arts Students League and Pratt Institute.
THOUGHT BUBBLE EMOJI
EXHIBITION DATES : March 1st, 2023 UNTIL: March 27th, 2023
A group exhibition with:
- Max Presneill
- Marcus Boelen
- Fran O'Neill
- Briony Barr
- Saxon Quinn
- Paul Owen Weiner
- Clay Mahn
- Michael Weisskoeppel
- Chris Trueman
STRANGE ATTRACTOR
EXHIBITION DATES: December 17th, 2022 – January 31st, 2023
TWFINEART’s unique exhibition ‘Strange Attractor’ has been created by Australian artist Briony Barr in-situation in the gallery over a three-month residency.
Each painting has evolved from a real-time investigation and visual response to the movements and sounds of different figures including musicians Hannah Reardon Smith (flute), Flora Wong (violin), Lisa Tran Kelly (harp), dancer-choreographer Jake McLarnon and artist Tove Langridge.
Strange Attractor will open on Saturday December 17th and feature an artist talk as well as a live drawing-sound performance by Briony, presented in collaboration with flautist Hannah Reardon Smith, Lisa Tran Kelly (harp) and dancer Jake McLarnon. Audiences are invited to witness the three improvise together and gain an insight into the creative process which has been the starting point for most of the works in the show.
ABOUT THE WORK
Drawing is fundamental to Briony's practice and the medium through which she explores her interest in systems and the effect of limitations (rules) and boundaries on a creative process. Here, Briony moves drawing into the realm of painting, playing with scale, material and medium to blur the line between the two disciplines. These works are both drawing and painting simultaneously. They experiment with different ways of responding to a figure in action (playing music, dancing or painting) as a generative starting point.
Some of the pieces have been completed in real-time with the subject present in the gallery. Others use this interaction as a structure to be worked into, developed or abstracted further.
On the title of the exhibition, Briony explains:
“ ‘Strange Attractor’ is a term used in the study of dynamic systems. It refers to a state, pattern or behaviour towards which a mathematically chaotic system trends. I came across the term some time ago through my ongoing art-science project ‘Drawing on Complexity (with physicist Andrew Melatos).
In the context of this exhibition, I think of this term in relation to the synergy/attraction between artist and subject and the huge range of variables that may or may not be incorporated into a painting before we begin collaborating. As the creative exchange occurs, I often think of the artwork as a system which begins to take on a shape or ‘trends’ in a certain aesthetic direction. This direction then becomes the baseline mood or architecture of the piece, something that I keep returning to throughout the whole creative process.”
VIEW EXHIBITION
ASH KEATING
'GRAVITY SYSTEM RESPONSE'
BRIONY BARR
'EYE MUSIC'
MAX PRESNEILL
'MOMENTS IN TIME'
BETH GILFILEN
'ECHO UNDER'
RILEY BEAUMONT
'IF I WERE A RACEHORSE THEY'D HAVE SHOT ME BY NOW'
HABIB FARAJABADI
'MERELY STAND UP IN THE CROWD'
SEBASTIAN HELLING
'GODSPEED FOR PETE'S SAKE'
UNLEARN, RELEARN.. REPEAT
Ricardo Passaporte, Jorge Galindo, Sami Korkiakoski, Taylor A. White, Jonni Cheatwood, Michael Scoggins
July 13 - August 9, 2019
CHRIS TRUEMAN
'TROPICAL INDUSTRIAL'
June 7 - July 12, 2019
CLAY MAHN
'MOTION PICTURES'
April 18 – May 31, 2019
JORDAN KERWICK
'Micro | Macro: Paintings of Love and Hate'
March 7th - April 7th, 2019
MARCUS BOELEN
Savage
February 7 - March 6, 2019
EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT
Marcus Boelen, Fran O'Neill, Riley Beaumont, Kim Guthrie, Skye Jamieson
November 29 - January 31, 2019
MICHAEL WEIßKÖPPEL
Unseen Landscapes/Sepacsdnal Neesnu
October 12 - November 20, 2018
BRYAN RICCI
Harmony In the Key of Linen
September 6 - October 6, 2018
SEBASTIAN HELLING
Then Play On
August 3 - September 5, 2018
KIMBERLY ROWE
Finding Grace
June 14 - July 1, 2018
TAYLOR ANTON WHITE
Who Ain't Got Time for Hickies
May 4 - June 3, 2018
THE POST DIGITAL MARK
Chris Trueman, Fran O'Neill, Carlson Hatton
April 4 - April 30, 2018
JONNI CHEATWOOD
Same Hero, New Boots
February 28 - April 4, 2018
DISTILLED DE STIJL
Clay Mahn | Oil Epp | Jenny Brosinski | Elizabeth Gilfilen | Jeffrey Cortland Jones | Kimberly Rowe | Sebastian Helling
January 2 - February 14, 2018
FRESH AF / ABSTRACT FIGURATION
Samuel Bassett | George Raftopoulos | Jordan Kerwick | Taylor A. White | Jonni Cheatwood
November 24 - January 1, 2017
MAX MANNING
Language Games
October 14 - November 7, 2017
SATELLITE ONE / DURDEN & RAY
Los Angeles group show
September 10 - October 14, 2017
FRAN O'NEILL
Next Move
August 10 - September 10, 2017
CHRIS TRUEMAN
Entangled
July 21 - August 11, 2017
MATT SHERIDAN TAKE OVER
Exchanges
June 29 - July 1, 2017
TOM SAVAGE
Love Notes From The West
June 14 - July 12, 2017
MAX PRESNEILL
Cont-Exis
May 11 - June 9, 2017
BRIONY BARR
Forking Paths
March 31 -April 30, 2017
MARCUS BOELEN
Dirty Attraction
February 23 - March 30, 2017
KIMBERLY ROWE + PAUL OWEN WEINER
In The Balance
January 20 - February 22, 2017
MICHAEL WEISSKOEPPEL
Erase & Refresh
November 14 - January 14, 2017
CLAY MAHN
Left | Right | Left
October 13 - November 13, 2016
MAX PRESNEILL
Reused + Reimagined
August 5 - September 18, 2016
BRYAN RICCI
Chromophilia
July 30 - August 18, 2016
JUAN LEVYA
All That Glitters
July 15 - July 23, 2016
CHRIS TRUEMAN
LA - BNE
June 3 - July 14, 2016
MATT SHERIDAN
Elegant Brutality
April 28 - May 30, 2016