Chaz O'Neil, Terraform_07 AIS.jpg
Chaz O'Neil, Terraform_07.jpg
Chaz O'Neil, Terraform_07 AIS.jpg
Chaz O'Neil, Terraform_07.jpg

$1,000.00

Chaz O’Neil, Terraform_07

Mixed media collage on canvas, 30” x 30”

The artist on the piece: “Inspired by a visit to Terra Mineralia, a museum in Freiberg, Germany housing one of the world’s largest collections of minerals, this work involves a tension between control and chaos. The cut-out shapes that form grids and patterns are mathematical in their precision, while his spray paints, washes, and other use of pigments and resins open the work up to chance.”

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Chaz O’Neil, Terraform_07

Mixed media collage on canvas, 30” x 30”

The artist on the piece: “Inspired by a visit to Terra Mineralia, a museum in Freiberg, Germany housing one of the world’s largest collections of minerals, this work involves a tension between control and chaos. The cut-out shapes that form grids and patterns are mathematical in their precision, while his spray paints, washes, and other use of pigments and resins open the work up to chance.”

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To display this piece in your space, just tell us about your wall

Chaz O’Neil

Fascinated by space exploration, O’Neil’s body of work reflects his interest in the messages that humans have sent into outer space in search of intelligent life. The repeated image in his Messenger Series is taken from the etched plaque designed by renowned astronomer Carl Sagan for NASA’s Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft. The plaque contains informational diagrams about human beings and the location of Earth in the infinitesimal chance that the spacecraft are intercepted by extra-terrestrial life forms.


O’Neil’s process of making these works involves a tension between control and chaos. The cut-out shapes that form regular grids and patterns are mathematical in their precision, while his spray paints, washes, and other use of pigments and resins open the work up to chance.

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