Stephen Ormandy Only Dancing
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March 5
Stephen Ormandy “Only Dancing”
Olsen Gruin
OPENS: March 7
The Lower East Side gallery presents a collection of new abstract oil on linen paintings and resin sculptures by Australian artist Stephen Ormandy, co-founder/creative designer of Dinosaur Designs.
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Stephen Ormandy Only Dancing
ANNA-WILLI HIGHFIELD | OLSEN GRUIN
http://www.dartmagazine.com/Christopher Hart Chambers
February 2018
Christopher Hart Chambers reviews Anna-Willi Highfield‘s exhibition Spirit Faces at Olsen Gruin Gallery in New York City.
Up front by the gallery's storefront window on the Orchange Street strip on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which is now perhaps the premier location for current fine art, stands a construction of sheet brass shards, with straight, think brass rods projecting outwards in all directions, extending like rays of light or exclamation points.
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Anna-Wili Highfield Spirit Faces
Spirit Faces: Anna-Wili Highfield's First Show at Olsen Gruin Gallery NYC
Yellowtrace (www.yellowtrace.com.au)19 February 2018
After a 10-plus year hiatus, Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield has
returned with a collection of mixed media sculptures. Titled ‘Spirit
Faces’, the sculptures are currently being shown at Olsen Gallery’s New
York City outpost, Olsen Gruin.
The show is Anna’s first fully
conceived body of work in over a decade and follows on from the
gallery’s calendar of other strong shows representing some pretty
excellent Australian artists: Stephen Ormandy, George Byrne, Leila
Jeffreys, and the super cool TV Moore.
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Anna-Wili Highfield Spirit Faces
Anna-Wili Highfield: Spirit Faces at Olsen Gruin Gallery
Arts Summary - A Visual JournalFebruary 1, 2018
"Olsen Gruin is pleased to present Spirit Faces, an installational exhibition of new sculptures by Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield (b. 1980, Sydney). Highfield's first fully conceived body of work in a decade, Spirit Faces gathers a celebratory mélange of animals, body parts, and self-portraits. Virtuosic and playful, Highfield's mixed media sculptures reach new heights of exuberance and material imagination.
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Anna-Wili Highfield Spirit Faces
Anna-Wili Highfield's Spirit Faces
www.gessato.comFebruary 1, 2018
A selection of thought-provoking, mixed media sculptures.
After the clean and minimal photographs of sunny LA which provided a vibrant glimpse into the urban landscape of California, New York-based gallery Olsen Gruin presents the work of a strikingly different artist. Anna-Wili Highfield‘s Spirit Faces exhibition features mixed media sculptures that create an intriguing collection. Made of a blend of glamorous materials, brass, and spray painting finishes, the intricate artworks draw the viewer closer. Animals and body parts combine in carefully shaped sculptures that often remind of a self-portrait.
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'Jens Einhorn: Raw Vision' at Olsen Gruin, New York
Blouinartinfo.comBlouinartinfo
January 30, 2018
Olsen Gruin is currently hosting a solo exhibition by Jens Einhorn, titled "Raw Vision."
The exhibition presents a collection of new collage-paintings by the German artist. Einhorn's body of work reveals his interest in channeling the assertive energy of the urban periphery. His new works incorporate shapes cut from tarpaper, layered starkly above a vibrant collage of fabric, acrylic, and spray paint. Similar to how associating our personal memories gives meaning to others' discarded objects, Einhorn's collages are full of suggestion and opportunity.
Born in 1980, Jens Einhorn graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a Master Student with Professor Tal R. The artist currently lives and works in Berlin.
The exhibition will be on view through February 5, 2018 at Olsen Gruin, 30 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002, USA.
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Butt Naked Salon: art, music and nudity collide in deeply moving performance
www.theguardian.comClarissa Sebag-Montefiore
December 1, 2017
A string quartet plays and a nude model poses as an artist paints the walls, in an ephemeral happening in Sydney inspired by the Parisian Belle Époque
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an Jones – the artist, not the shock jock – squeezes paint out of a tube, mixes it with water, and lifts a fat, unwieldy brush to the wall. We are in Potts Point, Sydney, and Jones is making a mural inside the hallowed Yellow House.
He is not alone. Generating music that feeds his rhythm is a live quartet; watching him is a small audience; and, arched over a black plinth, long dark hair cascading down her bare back, is a naked muse.
I am at the opening night of the Sydney Art Quartet’s Butt Naked Salon II, a re-working of the same concept first launched last year, inspired by the salons in the Belle Époque period in Paris.
Image: ‘The night is a blank canvas – anything can go,’ says artist Alan Jones. Photograph: Barnaby Wilshier
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The rebirth of coo: reconsidering the pigeon - in pictures
www.theguardian.com26 October 2017
Australian photographer Leila Jeffreys focuses on diversity within bird species, and these wildly colourful portraits belie the lowly reputation of the pigeon.
Nicobar Pigeon These striking portraits of the pigeons and doves of New Guinea and Australia form part of Leila Jeffreys’ current exhibition, Ornithurae Volume 1, at Olsen Gruin, New York, until 12 November. The captions below are from an accompanying essay, Reconsider the Pigeon, by biologist Tim Low. All photographs: Leila Jeffreys
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Leila Jeffreys Ornithurae Volume 1
Leila Jeffreys - Ornithurae
the360mag.com11 October 2017
OLSEN GRUIN is pleased to present “Ornithurae” a new selection of work by the Australian artist, photographer and environmentalist Leila Jeffreys.
Jeffreys has photographed native birds in her home country and the US (she was personally invited to shoot at Ojai Raptor Center, a sanctuary for wounded birds in California). Her unique work has featured everything from budgies to eagles; wrens to pigeons; cockatoos to hawks.
Olsen Gruin and Brooke Shields invite you to the opening of
LEILA JEFFREYS
ORNITHURAE VOLUME 1
Opening: Friday 13 October, 5–8pm
Exhibition continues until 12th November
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George Byrnes New Order Photographs Idealize LA Light
Observer.comAlina Cohen
September 13, 2017
The clean lines and colorful, minimal shapes in George Byrne’s photographs belie the busy, messy time in Los Angeles that led to their making. The Australian-born Byrne arrived in the city in 2010, after years of traveling. “I was personally in a very strange place when I got here,” he says. “No idea what I was doing with my life.”
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George Byrne New Order
Art Talk | George Byrnes
My Design AlleyHande Renshaw
Sep 13, 2017
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George Byrne's photographic work makes my heart skip a beat. Using the urban Los Angeles landscape as his canvas, George captures forms and colour into unique compositions so they have an incredible alchemy and depth. His latest exhibition, NEW ORDER, includes twelve new works, capturing new compositions of color and geometric forms on the streets of LA - once again taking the ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary.
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George Byrne New Order
Art Talk | Stephen Ormandy
My Design AlleyHande Renshaw
Sep 9, 2017
Stephen Ormandy has a way with colour. His bold and graphic paintings are strongly influenced by the natural world with a focus on colour and organic forms. His large scale oil paintings and cultural work are a synergy of line, shape and surface all working beautifully in harmony. For Stephen, colour is ''pure joy'' and his latest exhibition at the Olsen Gruin gallery is no exception.
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Stephen Ormandy
Stephen Ormandy
Goings On About Town, The New YorkerArt: Galleries-Downtown
September 2017
OLSEN GRUIN NEW YORK
Six hard-edged paintings of curvy forms by the Australian artist and designer, who is making his New York solo début, evoke otherworldly figures and landscapes.
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Wesley Martin Berg and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
ArtforumTausif Noor
August 2017
The sad-clown painting functions as a sort of postmodern joke: an ironic gesture that dives into bad taste while subtly nodding to art history—the clown’s origins can be traced back to the stock character Pierrot of the commedia dell’arte, after all. Wesley Martin Berg’s paintings of clowns are informed by this tradition, but he also imbues his subjects with a solemn grace.
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Wesley Martin Berg & Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri On view (Summer Show)
Sharing Country
Wall Street International MagazineJuly 15, 2017
Olsen Gruin is pleased to present “Sharing Country” curated by Adam Knight. "Sharing Country" show cases works by leading contemporary Aboriginal artists from the most remote desert communities. Featured artists include Sandy Brumby, Tommy Watson, Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, Iluwanti Ken, Puna Yanima, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, Womens Collaborative, Barbara Moore, Tiger Palpatja, Witjiti George, Minnie Pwerle, Kudditji Kngwarreye, Kathy Maringka and Liddy Napanangka Walker.
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SHARING COUNTRY curated by Adam Knight
Art Break: A Down Under Group Show at Olsen Gruin Gallery
Zealnyc.comA. E. Colas, Contributing Writer
July 3, 2017
This weekâ??s Art Break takes groups as its theme. Group shows are a great way to learn about a culture, an art movement, a topic, or a new way to bring art to people. Our downtown pick this week is the full experience in one place: a brilliant display of Australian modern art created by Aboriginal artists. Visit this and our other picks for free â?? youâ??ll have a great time and come away with a new understanding of the power of art.
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SHARING COUNTRY curated by Adam Knight
The 30 Hottest Group Shows to see in New York this Summer
https://news.artnet.comSarah Cascone
July 3, 2017
Group show season is upon us. That annual rite of summer, the group exhibition, has hit galleries all
over New York. If the wide selection seems overwhelming, rest easy.
We’ve scoured shows across the city to provide this helpful guide to the
best of the bunch. Enjoy!
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STEPHEN BIRD | TOYING WITH CONVENTION
Ceramic ReviewInga Walton
MAY/JUNE 2017
Stephen Bird’s upcoming exhibition Bastard Son of Royal Doulton is currently featured in the MAY/JUNE issue of the Ceramic Review. Inga Walton reviews the launch of of the show in Australia before it heads to the UK.
“Bastard Son of Royal Doulton represents the wry, irreverent and sometimes pugnacious output of Stephen Bird.”
TV Moore at Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York
Blouinartinfo.comApril 07, 2017
Olsen Gruin Gallery in New York is hosting an exhibition “April Fools” by artist TV Moore that will be on view through May 7, 2017.
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Julian Meagher - There is Hope to the Last Flower
The Design FilesElle Murrell
21 February 2017
Today we highlight the latest exhibition by Sydney artist Julian Meagher, which opens tomorrow at Olsen Gallery.
‘There is Hope to the Last Flower' confronts poignant issues, from the global to the personal, through unique compositions and unexpected, yet somehow beautiful symbols. Though they are depicted in a cool, muted palette, Julian's artworks are underpinned with luminous optimism.
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Julian Meagher There is hope to the last flower