Flowers for Minnie Virtual Opening

ABXY is pleased to announce Flowers for Minnie, a solo exhibition by artist Vernon O’Meally. Flowers for Minnie marks the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. It will be on view (by appointment) from June 4 through September 4, 2020 and include exhibition essays by Jasmine Weber and David C. Hunt.

In the dusk of the strangest spring ever, artist Vernon O’Meally presents a collection of contemporary still life paintings composed entirely in black and white. The artist began work on this exhibition’s grey gardens months before the pandemic’s outbreak, but they so beautifully anticipate our sadness for the season of sirens and song-birds that it seems worth disclaiming: they signal preexisting conditions. Gone are the electrified rainbow palettes of past exhibitions. Here, the artist’s signature linear abstractions have been bleached like the coral reefs and assembled into salt and pepper floral arrangements, which together feel as alive and full as the spectrum of human emotion, or all the notes on a grand piano, played in a minor key.