Visualizing Urban Transformation: Solo Exhibition
Visualizing Urban Transformation is a series of paintings that examines the overlooked objects and spaces that emerge during periods of urban change. Temporary barriers, traffic cones, construction fencing, and industrial containers are designed for utility rather than attention, yet they shape how pedestrians move through streets, construction zones, and transitional landscapes. In these paintings, such elements shift from peripheral infrastructure to central subjects. By isolating these objects, the work invites viewers to reconsider the visual and spatial impact of everyday urban materials. Wall Space Gallery
Artist Talk: Saturday June 6th / 3-5pm
Traveling Vicariously: The High Line
Traveling Vicariously: The High Line
Solo Exhibition at Wall Space Gallery
Through painting, O’Neill studies urban spaces in transition. Travelling Vicariously: The High Line draws attention to the transformation of the New York’s High Line Park system into its contemporary identity as a rail trail and greenway. Historically, rail trails are created from the removal of old rail tracks subsequently transformed by pedestrian traffic into community passageways for running, walking, and enjoying nature and urban vistas. The protection and reimagining of the High Line, which opened to the public as a park in 2009, foregrounds the ways in which historical architecture can be re-valued to grow with a city in service of its community.