Traveling Vicariously: The High Line

Solo Exhibition at Wall Space Gallery

Through painting, O’Neill studies urban spaces in transition. Travelling Vicariously: The High Line draws attention to the transformation of the New York’s High Line Park system into its contemporary identity as a rail trail and greenway. Historically, rail trails are created from the removal of old rail tracks subsequently transformed by pedestrian traffic into community passageways for running, walking, and enjoying nature and urban vistas. The protection and reimagining of the High Line, which opened to the public as a park in 2009, foregrounds the ways in which historical architecture can be re-valued to grow with a city in service of its community.