25 1/4 x 32 3/4 in (64.1 x 83.2 cm) framed
Inman Gallery is pleased to present Fences Go Falling, a solo exhibition by Robyn O'Neil, on view November 7, 2026–January 9, 2027. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, November 6 from 5:00–7:00pm. This is the artist's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Robyn O’Neil (b. 1977, Omaha, Nebraska) creates meticulously precise works on paper whose monumental narratives and epic landscapes straddle the line between comedy and tragedy. Fences Go Falling features a selection of drawings from 2006–2018. Excitingly, the exhibition offers a more experimental angle on O’Neil’s practice, introducing color and looser mark making within O’Neil’s otherwise pristine, grey-scale drawings, and manipulating the substrate with sandpaper, folds, moisture, and heat to rough up the surface of the paper.
Drawing influence from self-taught artist James Castle to early modern artists Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and Milton Avery, O'Neil references clouds, weather, creation myths, and land formation, orienting us towards towards forces more grand and ancient than our own.
Robyn O'Neil (b. 1977, Omaha, Nebraska) received her BFA from Texas A&M Commerce, and she has been the subject of solo exhibitions at major institutions, including at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. In fall 2019, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented a twenty-year survey featuring the artist's acclaimed film, WE, THE MASSES, which she conceived of at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School in Los Angeles. She has been included in many prestigious group museum exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Further, O'Neil is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, an Artadia grant, and the Hunting Prize. She also hosts the popular podcast, "Me Reading Stuff."
