The Stranger

(ART) In art school in Texas, Robyn O'Neil made brightly colored abstract paintings, and she kept at it when she moved to Chicago. But in 2000, the Nebraska native started making plain graphite drawings that gave her an escape from the "art people," drawings modeled on her sweatsuit-clad father and his beer-swilling regular-guy friends. Ironically, those snowy, ambiguous, enormous landscapes with epic titles became her entrée into galleries in New York; her assumed hometown, Houston; and the Whitney Biennial 2004. Now they visit the Frye. (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250. 10 am–5 pm, free.) by Jen Graves

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