Joseph O’Neal
Born 1983 North Carolina
Bio:
Joseph O’Neal (born.1983 in North Carolina) paints non-objective imagery in conjunction with words, names, and dates to prompt an ambiguous field of opportunities. Living and working in Easton, Pennsylvania, O’Neal has participated in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Mexico. These include three iterations of A Sunday in Soho; a notable large-scale two person exhibition held in Basel, Switzerland in 2011, 2015, and Zürich in 2018. O’Neal’s work has appeared in publications such as The Basler Zeitung, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Art Rated, Still Developing: A Story of Instant Gratification, Lula Japan, as well as interview features with Telebasel, and NPR.
Statement:
I paint non-objective imagery in conjunction with words, names, and dates to prompt an ambiguous field of opportunities. I compose colors in organic shapes and lines bringing awareness and urgency to the spaces between text and form, suggesting textual interpretation from a place beyond verbal or written language. My work reflects an in-between state of expressionism, and the relationship between ambiguity and memory.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 - scattered poems, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, Germany
2022 - Letters from the Earth, Cabin Contemporary, Pottsville, PA
2021 - Soil Grows Through The Eye, Ressarts Projects, Frenchtown, NJ
2018 - A Sunday in Soho III (w. Joe Strasser) ,Zürich, Switzerland
2018 - de profundis, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ
2017 - World Champs, Ard Bia, Galway, Ireland
2017 - during a time like this, Activate: Market Street, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2016 - Trapping Ghosts, The Road Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - A Sunday in Soho II (w. Joe Strasser), Gimmick Studios, Basel, Switzerland
2011 - A Sunday in Soho (w. Joe Strasser), Fabrikreal Glanzmann Generalunternehmung AG, Basel, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - In Other Words, Kansas City Public Library, Mountain Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2023 - Worry, Soft Machine Gallery, Allentown, PA
2023 - A painting is a painting is a painting, Artport Kingston, Kingston, NY
2023 - Real Estate, Center for Visual Research at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2023 - Quadrivial, Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2022 - Salone Rompone, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, Germany
2022 - Tell Me More About Yourself, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2021 - gelée royale, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, Germany
2021 - a Little Undefined, Lodger Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2021 - Between the Lines, Grove Collective, London, England
2020 - Way Out, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Lés-Reims, France
2020 - Send Help, Levee Contemporary, Princeton, WI
2020 - If You Like This, You’ll Love That, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
2020 - Glimpse, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2020 - People , Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2019 - ‘Okay, Where is The Cake?’, Warbling Collective, online exhibition, London, England
2019 - ‘Of Course, I Haven’t Forgotten’, Warbling Collective, 115A Artists Space, London, England
2019 - A Collection of Lines, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2018 - Intersection 2018, Index gallery, Newark, NJ
2018 - buyers market, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2017 - 200 show, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2017 - Intersection 2017, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ
2017 - Metro 31, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
2017 - The 500 Project, The Road Gallery, New York, NY
2016 - Intersection 2016, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ
2016 - Queen of Angels : When a Church Dies, Art and Artifacts, Newark, NJ
2015 - Grand Opening, Quinientos Cincuenta, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 - ultisols, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ
2015 - Crossing Your own Line, R.Jampol Projects, New York, NY
2015 - Chainlink invitational, Hibbleton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 - Home Tour, The Road Gallery, New York, NY
2014 - New Digs, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ
2014 - Dichotomy, Index Gallery, The Art Factory, Patterson, NJ
2013 - Chapter 237, Index gallery, Newark, NJ
2013 - Cover the Wall, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - Works on Paper, LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ
2013 - Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Woodhull, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
2012 - Put a Bow on it, Kraine Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Amalgamation, Space Womb Contemporary Gallery, Queens, NY
2012 - Imminent Twilight, Space Womb Contemporary Gallery, Queens, NY
2011 - Imaginary Arms, Arch Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - umbilical poetry, Space Womb Contemporary Gallery, Queens, NY
2010 - beginnings, Spice Factory Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - Instant Gratification, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 - Polaroid Party, Hibbleton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Press/Media
“RipRap Issue 42”
RipRap Literary Journal, California State University Long Beach, Number 42
July, 2020
“Sora-Iro: Inside of You”
Lula Japan, number 12, by Matheus Katayama
March, 2020
“Vernissage: A Sunday in Soho II”
Baz Kompakt, by Tamara Wernli
June 4th, 2015
"A Sunday in Soho”
Basler Zeitung
May 28th, 2015
"Poetry Issue”
Sensitive Skin Magazine, number 12
April, 2015
"The Open Solitudes of a Plural Self: Joseph O'Neal on Painting”
Sensitive Skin Magazine, by Erik Noonan
January, 2015
“Artist Interview: Joseph O’Neal”
Art rated, by Lily Koto Olive
November, 2012
”In New York Entdeckt Joseph O’Neal and Joe Strasser”
Telebasel
September 4th, 2011
”Still Developing: A Story of Instant Gratification”
ISM Publishing
2010
”bluetan Collective with Joseph O’Neal and Geoff Henshall”
WFDD NPR Affiliate, Triad Arts Segment, by David Ford
2009
Public Collections
Tokyo Booklet Library
Mona Lisa and Other Notes, acquired in 2011