EAVAN O'NEIL

Eavan O'Neil lives and operates out of Saint Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE); receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting, a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, and a minor in art history. Eavan is a mixed-media painter experimenting with large-scale layered compositions combining drawing, painting, and textiles. ​

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Concentrating on themes of community and representing multiple perspectives within group portraiture, Eavan's duplicated information can obscure, confuse, and muddle reality, or even contradict itself–just as multiple perspectives are often sincere while still being at odds. These works embody the notion of paradox and contradiction by paying tribute to the love, admiration, and wholeness experienced within relationships while saving space to wrestle with the impossibility of being known by and knowing other people.