{"id":1265,"date":"2009-11-09T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T02:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/jennifer_zwick_on_robyn_oneil\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T02:47:43","slug":"jennifer_zwick_on_robyn_oneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/jennifer_zwick_on_robyn_oneil.html","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Zwick on Robyn O&#8217;Neil, wordlessly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, when Robyn O&#8217;Neil was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fryemuseum.org\/exhibition\/74\/\">Frye<\/a>, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Houston&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clementine-gallery.com\/ro\/\">Robyn O&#8217;Neil<\/a><br \/>\ndraws dense, dainty tableaus that make light work of heavy symbolism.<br \/>\nHer heart&#8217;s in the radical scale shifts and hallucinated oddities of<br \/>\nart history: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights\">Hieronymous Bosch<\/a> without his silky spatial connectives, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder\">Pieter Brueghel<\/a><br \/>\nwithout his interest in community. Her humans are loners and her<br \/>\nanimals lost causes. Even when she crowds her space, nobody&#8217;s home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>O&#8217;Neil, <i>The Passing<\/i><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robyno'neilThePassing.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/Robyno%27neilThePassing.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"457\" width=\"450\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jenniferzwick.com\/index.php?p=VW_RoN_wallText&amp;w=VW_wallText\">Jennifer Zwick<\/a> managed to convey the same thing at the same time, wordlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Zwick, <i>Robyn O&#8217;Neil, Wall Text, 2006<\/p>\n<p><\/i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JenniferZwickoneiltxt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/JenniferZwickoneiltxt.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"347\" width=\"451\" \/>Zwick, <i>Robyn O&#8217;Neil,<\/i> <i>Oh, How the Heartless Haunt Us All, 2006<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jenniferzwickoneil.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jenniferzwickoneil.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"354\" width=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, when Robyn O&#8217;Neil was at the Frye, I wrote: Houston&#8217;s Robyn O&#8217;Neil draws dense, dainty tableaus that make light work of heavy symbolism. Her heart&#8217;s in the radical scale shifts and hallucinated oddities of art history: Hieronymous Bosch without his silky spatial connectives, or Pieter Brueghel without his interest in community. Her humans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}