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INTRODUCTION “My paintings ARE mirrors - they reflect the person looking at it, they’re in real time and they’re always changing.”
- Jimmy O’ Neal
(September 2021)
In his most recent body of work, All the Worlds, JIMMY O’NEAL sets a stage for the viewer, gazing into his seductive, mirrored panels, to see themselves reflected – engulfed in his opulent representations of the intangible universe. The sights. . . sounds . . . stories and spirits that have remained unseen …..until now.
O’Neal’s paintings
reawaken within us a profound memory of mankind’s highest aspirations for existence and transcendence.
Symbolic prosceniums - or frames – painted to encircle the central plane in latex and pearlescent mica are pulled back, revealing the “stage” and the viewer’s immediate casting at its center. O’Neal explores the relationship between form and shadow, often distorted through lenses of “seeing”, be they physical, mental, emotional, or even digital. Is the lens through which we see the world in fact reality, or have we always been seeing mere mirage of real object, much like Plato’s allegory of the cave?
In today’s society, much of what we perceive as reality has been filtered, distorted, and confined to fit into a frame. In this digital age, there is a new alternative reality of perception and experience. Perhaps, we are all a part of a larger simulation and it begs the question – what, if anything, do you know to be true except for this very moment from your exact position.
7 LBS OF LIGHT IN A
5LB RENDER, 2021 | Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel | 72 x 96 Inches | $100,000
AS YOU LIKE IT, 2021 Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel 72 x 84 Inches $85,000
RAY TRACE, 2021 Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel 72 x 84 Inches $85,000
THREADER OPTIMIZING THE MOMENT | 2021 Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel 60 x 72 Inches $60,000
SIGHING LIKE
E FURNACE | 2021 | Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel | 60 x 78 Inches | $75,000
ALL SIXTEEN DANCES, 2021 Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel 72 x 60 Inches $60,000
XENOMANCY DIVINATION BY STRANGERS | 2021 Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel 60 x 72 Inches $60,000
FUMBLING IN THE CURTAINS | 2021 Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel 72 x 60 Inches $60,000
DOLLSPEAK | 2020 | Acrylic Mirrored Paint on Panel | 84 x 60 Inches | $75,000
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