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.

Her work resides in private collections in the USA, Australia and UK, and in the permanent collection of MOCA Jacksonville, FL.

 

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.”

 

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ASH KEATING

'GRAVITY SYSTEM RESPONSE'

 

BRIONY BARR

'EYE MUSIC'

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MAX PRESNEILL

'MOMENTS IN TIME'

 

BETH GILFILEN

'ECHO UNDER'

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RILEY BEAUMONT

'IF I WERE A RACEHORSE THEY'D HAVE SHOT ME BY NOW'

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HABIB FARAJABADI

'MERELY STAND UP IN THE CROWD'

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SEBASTIAN HELLING

'GODSPEED FOR PETE'S SAKE'

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FRAN O'NEILL

'SUBLIMINAL'

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MATT SHERIDAN

'SCHEMATTITUDES' 

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UNLEARN, RELEARN.. REPEAT 

Ricardo Passaporte, Jorge Galindo, Sami Korkiakoski, Taylor A. White, Jonni Cheatwood, Michael Scoggins

July 13 - August 9, 2019

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CHRIS TRUEMAN 

'TROPICAL INDUSTRIAL' 

June 7 - July 12, 2019

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CLAY MAHN  

'MOTION PICTURES'

 April 18 – May 31, 2019

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JORDAN KERWICK  

'Micro | Macro: Paintings of Love and Hate'

March 7th - April 7th, 2019

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MARCUS BOELEN 

Savage

February 7 - March 6, 2019

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EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT

Marcus Boelen, Fran O'Neill, Riley Beaumont, Kim Guthrie, Skye Jamieson

November 29 - January 31, 2019

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MICHAEL WEIßKÖPPEL

Unseen Landscapes/Sepacsdnal Neesnu

October 12 - November 20, 2018

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BRYAN RICCI

Harmony In the Key of Linen

September 6 - October 6, 2018

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SEBASTIAN HELLING

Then Play On

August 3 - September 5, 2018

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KIMBERLY ROWE

Finding Grace

June 14 - July 1, 2018

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TAYLOR ANTON WHITE

Who Ain't Got Time for Hickies

May 4 - June 3, 2018

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THE POST DIGITAL MARK

Chris Trueman, Fran O'Neill, Carlson Hatton

April 4 - April 30, 2018

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JONNI CHEATWOOD

Same Hero, New Boots

February 28 - April 4, 2018

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DISTILLED DE STIJL

Clay Mahn | Oil Epp | Jenny Brosinski | Elizabeth Gilfilen | Jeffrey Cortland Jones | Kimberly Rowe | Sebastian Helling  

January 2 - February 14, 2018 

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FRESH AF / ABSTRACT FIGURATION 

Samuel Bassett | George Raftopoulos | Jordan Kerwick | Taylor A. White | Jonni Cheatwood 

November 24 - January 1, 2017

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MAX MANNING

Language Games

October 14 - November 7, 2017

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SATELLITE ONE / DURDEN & RAY

Los Angeles group show

September 10 - October 14, 2017 

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FRAN O'NEILL

Next Move

August 10 - September 10, 2017  

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CHRIS TRUEMAN

Entangled

July 21 - August 11, 2017

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MATT SHERIDAN TAKE OVER

Exchanges

June 29 - July 1, 2017

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TOM SAVAGE

Love Notes From The West

June 14 - July 12, 2017

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MAX PRESNEILL

Cont-Exis

May 11 - June 9, 2017

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BRIONY BARR

Forking Paths

March 31 -April 30, 2017

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MARCUS BOELEN

Dirty Attraction

February 23 - March 30, 2017 

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KIMBERLY ROWE + PAUL OWEN WEINER

In The Balance 

January 20 - February 22, 2017 

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MICHAEL WEISSKOEPPEL

Erase & Refresh

November 14 - January 14, 2017 

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CLAY MAHN

Left | Right | Left

October 13 - November 13, 2016

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MAX PRESNEILL 

Reused + Reimagined 

August 5 - September 18, 2016 

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BRYAN RICCI

Chromophilia 

July 30 - August 18, 2016 

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JUAN LEVYA

All That Glitters

July 15 - July 23, 2016 

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CHRIS TRUEMAN 

LA - BNE

June 3 - July 14, 2016 

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MATT SHERIDAN 

Elegant Brutality 

April 28 - May 30, 2016

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