OPENING RECEPTION “Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: BLUE” & “O’Neil: Fences Go Falling” at Inman Gallery

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026 | 5–7 PM: Inman Gallery presents Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: BLUE and Robyn O’Neil: Fences Go Falling.

Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson creates image-based fiber works that document the distinctive phenomena and evolving landscape of her native Iceland. She spends a significant part of each year in her native country, observing her surroundings and collecting imagery. Her chosen source material is often photographic, but she also engages in a regular practice of painting watercolors of her country’s dynamic and extreme landscape.

Returning to her studio in Cleveland, Ohio, Jónsson references the imagery she has collected for her final compositions, meticulously painting onto silk. Her hand-painted warp threads are woven with their horizontal weft counterparts to produce vibrant and visually shifting scenes. Existing in the space between painting and textile-making, Jónsson blurs the boundaries of both, creating works that move between representation and abstraction.

Robyn O’Neil’s (born 1977, Omaha, NE) prodigious career places her in the company of some of the great landscape artists in the history of art. Known for her detailed narrative drawings that often contain art historical references, her drawings in dry media range from intimate landscapes to large-scale, multi-panel works. Often surreal or symbolic, her drawings reference personal narratives and art historical allusions, and deal with themes of memory, identity and climate crises.

Robyn O’Neil 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.”

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