PLATYPUS BLACK LIGHT FULL

Exhibit, sell, buy, create and discover incredible creativity in painting, illustration, design, sculpture, drawing, photography, 3d, fashion and more.From left: visible light, ultraviolet light, and yellow-filtered UV light. Best modern and contemporary art platform featuring artworks by international artists.Other selected group exhibitions include University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Blue Projects, London Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow Public Fiction, Los Angeles Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles and Wallspace, New York. She has shown in group exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Los Angeles County Museum of Art Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and her works are included in their respective public collections. Olson has had solo and two-person exhibitions at 12.26, Dallas Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles Laura Bartlett Gallery, London and Lisa Cooley, New York. In 2008 she received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and in 2001 her BA from Harvard University.

PLATYPUS BLACK LIGHT FULL

Whether partially revealed, hinted at, or otherwise resisting full literal consumption, the text components embedded in OlsonвЂ™s new paintings dance just outside the grip of the legible, leaving us in a perpetually contemplative state, ever-hovering amongst the aesthetics of decipherability.ДЄlex Olson was born in 1978 in Boston, and she lives and works in Los Angeles. Text-based elements like jotted show notes, calligraphic scrawl and the Roman alphabet primer, seem to be attempting to reaffirm their own legitimacy or permanence by carving into the surface, only to be wryly obscured by the artist both materially and conceptually. An example of this is the subtle dialogue between separate works, Page and Cover, both of which contain layers of painted effects that physically obscure a ground layer inscribed with carved marks, resembling notations and scribbles from OlsonвЂ™s sketchbook. Her mark-making pushes and pulls from both historical abstraction and contemporary design.ДЄnother strategic yet playful recurring element in OlsonвЂ™s practice is cross-referential nods between works. Layers appear to peel away to reveal peaks at other layers, suggesting several paintings imbedded in one, some of which remain forever concealed, at least in part, like a Russian doll. Through the use of color, layering, and texture (both in terms of three-dimensional impasto and in terms of implied textures within visual patterning), she controls surface tensions in a manner simultaneously meticulous and playful. Within OlsonвЂ™s new painted works her mastery of surface is evident. A Platypus Glows Under Blacklight marks the artistвЂ™s second solo exhibition with Altman Siegel. The selection of new works, while consistent with OlsonвЂ™s signature controlled materiality, mark-making, and collage-like approach, introduces a new element of script patterning and вЂњtextвЂќ components. Embedded in this process is the question: what if these texts were taken apart and then rewritten in other visual forms, or with another choreography? Perhaps they could give way to a looser, more generative alphabet: a concrete script would become a calligraphic pattern, still telling but more open, expanding further into an array of potential logics without set conclusions.ДЄltman Siegel is pleased to announce A Platypus Glows Under Blacklight, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Olson. It considers our reliance on text to summarize and solidify at the risk of eliminating complexity and nuance. This show focuses specifically on the role of written text as external signage or as inscribed layers beneath veneers, obscured but still affecting. Before and now, the paintings revolve around surface: how surfaces are read perceptually but also socially, as a text. The possession of these seemingly contradictory traits along with this newfound surface attribute, which has yet to be codified into purpose, metaphorically describe much of what IвЂ™ve been thinking about in making this show.

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