Paul Davies | Laguna Art Museum
September 2018Paul Davies work "Landscape in Open-plan" has been acquired by the Laguna Art Museum in California.
ALAN JONES | TATTERSALLS ART PRIZE
August 2018OLSEN Gallery wishes to congratulate Alan Jones for his work Painting 233 (The Fire Trail) that has been selected as a finalist in the Tattersalls Art Prize. Painting 233 was recently on display at the Olsen Gallery stall at Melbourne Art Fair.Â
Working to Scale
LALA MagazineCourtney Coffman
Spring Issue 2018
From objects to buildings Honora Shea and Danielle Rago of This X That help emerging designers and architects think big - and small.
The Watermill Center Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary With TIME BOMB, A Creative Explosion
ForbesBettina Zilkha
August 2, 2018
The Watermill Center held its 25th Annual Gala, TIME BOMB, at its headquarters Saturday night. Presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and honoring the late Pierre Berge, the aptly named evening featured an explosion of creativity. Over 1,000 guests strolled through the site, where the colorful theme, in tribute to Berge and the Jardins Majorelle, abounded. The evening raised $2.2 million for the center...
There were exciting works to be had at the silent auction, including recent pieces by Rachel Hovnanian, Leila Jeffreys, Hadieh Shafie, and many more. The live auction featured a trio of Keith Haring prints courtesy of the Tony Shafrazi Foundation, and works by Peter Beard, Nan Goldin, Roy Lichtenstein, Masako Miki, Duke Riley, Tseng Kwong Chi, as well as a Robert Wilson video.
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Soho House MagazineKate Bryan
July 2018
Australian born artist Paul Davies investigates the relationship between built and natural environments in his atmospheric pantings, which often draw on historic modernist masterpieces. This painting, which mirrors nature with architecture, is a key work at DUMBO House, where the collection reflects the site's own staggering setting - specifically, its skyline views.
Nicholas Harding | Art of Music
June 2018ART OF MUSIC is one of the most talked about fundraisers on the Sydney event circuit. There is no other like it.
Presented by Jenny Morris, ART OF MUSIC combines both visual arts and music. Held every two years, a group of Australia's top artists come together to create an original exhibition where each artist chooses an iconic Australian/NZ song to inspire a piece of artwork. The artwork is then auctioned during a gala dinner in the spectacular Grand Court of the Art Gallery of NSW. All proceeds go to Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, an inspirational charity that use the power of music to transform lives.
Congratulations to Nicholas Harding on his participation in the event with his work : Private Universe (Neil Finn) 2018 oil on linen 112x107cm (featured)
Southampton Welcomes Fine Art Photographer Leila Jeffreys
PuristCarole Reed
July 25, 2018
Ornithologists and art aficionados alike find delight in Leila Jeffreys' winged works.
Conservationist, world traveller and fine art photographer, Leila Jeffreys, grew up in Perth, Australia. She experienced all the boundless travel and exposure to exotic wildlife required for an artist with her particular level of visual acuity. Among the many celebrities, who have taken her under their wing, Jonathan Adler, smartly featured the work of this emerging artist in 20 North American stores in 2010. As both a curator and interior designer, I adore the clean graphic quality of her work, and appreciate the memorable, emotional charge her subjects emit to their viewers.
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Photographer Leila Jeffries Exhibits Exotic Wildlife Works In New Salon Series
KDHamptonsJuly 25, 2018
“I was walking down 5th Ave one evening and in the window of Bergdorfs was the most magical display of a photographers work with brightly festooned mannequins I had ever seen,” shares Carole Reed. “Searching up the artist immediatley I suddenly found myself obsessed by these bird portraits on Instagram, then they appeared behind the shoulder of Brooke Shields in a recent InStyle shoot, it seemed they were everywhere. As both a curator and interior designer I adore the clean graphic quality of her work while also appreciating the memorable emotional charge her subjects emit to their viewers.”
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So Fine Contemporary Women Artists make Australian history
National Portrait GalleryFiona McMonagle
July 2018
Fiona McMonagle
Contributing artists /
Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland Works: Melbourne
So Fine exhibition showing from Friday 29 June until Monday 1 October 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimaging elements of Australian history.
Artist statement
Under Britain's child migrant scheme - operating from the 1920s through to the late 1960s - over 130,000 children were forcibly sent to ‘a better life' in former colonies, mainly Australia and Canada. Many were children of single mothers who had been forced to give them up for adoption, or had left them temporarily in British orphanages until they were fit to reclaim them.
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ART COLLECTOR GLOBAL: Q&A WITH TIM OLSEN
Art CollectorEmily Cones-Browne
11 July 2018
With
New York Gallery Olsen Gruin hitting the 18-months open mark, Emily
Cones-Browne talks to Australian dealer and co-director Tim Olsen about
going international.
Extract:
Olsen
Gruin has hit the 18-month mark since opening its first doors. What are
some of the winning hallmarks the gallery has experienced during the
first 18 months ?
The
surprising thing about the New York experience is that I had no idea it
was going to happen. It was only because my sister was moving her
business that we had the opportunity for a pop-up. What began as an
experiment was such a resounding success, it felt as though we had a
place in the New York art scene.
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Beyond The Veil curated by Adam Knight
Review - Unmasking the portraiture of McLean Edwards
www.andrewmcilroy.comAndrew McIlroy
July 9, 2018
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize judge, Wendy Sharpe, described Tim Storrier's 2017 winning painting of fellow Australian artist McLean Edwards as "an arresting, intriguing image at once both disturbing and playful". Storrier's portrait of his friend in The Lunar Savant (Portrait of McLean Edwards) indeed presents such a contrast.
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McLean Edwards Marsupials
ZOE YOUNG | WINNER OF PIRTEK PRIZE FOR STILL LIFE PAINTING
June 2018Congratulations to Zoe Young who has been awarded the Pirtek Prize for Still Life Painting at the Bowral Art Gallery for her work Apples for tea, which will be a part of her upcoming show Winter Soundtrack at Olsen Gallery.Â
What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
The New York TimesMartha Schwendener, Jason Farago, Will Heinrich and Jillian Steinhauer
June 20, 2018
Extract: 'Beyond the Veil’
Through July 8. Olsen Gruin, 30 Orchard St., Manhattan; 646-613-7011, olsengruin.com
Who gets to narrate history? Who gets to represent whom? These questions have been roiling the American art world lately, but they are nothing new in Australia — especially in regard to its indigenous population, who faced official efforts to erase their culture well into the 20th century through forced assimilation. Visual art has provided a crucial tool to help redress these erasures, and at this New York outpost of a Sydney gallery, the paintings by five women from central Australia, and one collaborative group, testify to the vibrancy of Aboriginal Australian art and the necessity of speaking for yourself.
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Beyond The Veil curated by Adam Knight
The Approval Matrix
New York MagazineJune 2018
The Approval Matrix - Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies...
BRILLIANT - The breathtaking small survey of Aboriginal art "Beyond the Veil" at Olsen Gruin gallery.
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Beyond The Veil curated by Adam Knight
Beyond the Veil at Olsen Gruin
Arte FuseJonathan Goodman
9 June 2018
So, there is something that holds true in a show like this, which presupposes a different way of looking at society because of the long reach of the West's current obsession with money. Clearly, affluence is not a major interest of the women in this show, who live in the central desert of Australia and who work on paintings that, despite their abstraction, remain close to their lives. This is a different cry by far from the recent dot paintings of Damien Hirst, whose probable appropriation-we are not certain this is true-looks like very much like the theft of a venerable art coming from a culture some 100,000 years old. Hirst's borrowings do tend to look facile in light of the greater gravitas of the indigenous women's works, which can be understood by Western viewers-albeit on a level likely more superficial than the paintings themselves. In any case, the controversy raises real issues about the appropriation of other cultures-a hallmark of Western art practice since the beginnings of modernism, when Picasso made use of African masks for his work Les demoiselles d'Avignon.
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BEYOND THE VEIL CURATED BY ADAM KNIGHT
May 16 â?? July 8, 2018
OLSEN GRUIN NY
-Jonathan Goodman
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Beyond The Veil curated by Adam Knight
Experience Dramartistry with Mclean Edwards as presented by the Sydney Art Quartet at Yellow House. Deep, rich & stormy music fuses with psychological portraiture when Mclean Edwards joins the Art Quartet. Sink deep into sound while McLean Edwards depicts an inner world - all in his darkly humorous & magnetic style. Your own sketch kit is welcome to add to the drama for these unique concert experiences.
Yellow House Sydney 57-59 Macleay St Potts Point NSW 2011
Julian Meagher | Art with Heart
June 2018Very Special Kids' presents the Art with Heart auction. Very Special Kids is a children's charity that helps more than 900 families across Victoria who have a child with a life threatening condition with on going support from diagnosis all the way through bereavement. Julian Meagher will be participating in the charities Art exhibition and auction for exceptional fine paintings and sculptures from leading contemporary artists. See Julian's featured work below.
Laura Jones | Art with Heart
June 2018Andrew Taylor & Matthew Johnson | Art with Heart
June 2018Very Special Kids presents Art With Heart auction. Andrew Taylor? and Matthew Johnson will? be participating in the charities Art exhibition and auction for exceptional fine paintings and sculptures from leading contemporary artists. See Andrew and Matthews featured works below.
Three Sentence Reviews of Marlene Dumas, Dan Colen, and 11 Other Art-World Big Shots
Vulture.comJerry Saltz
May 31, 2018
To coincide with several big art fairs and last week’s massive auctions, many larger galleries mounted shows of their bigger artists. So let’s read the tea leaves on the upper end of the food chain.
Extract:
Beyond the Veil
Curated by Adam Knight
Olsen Gruin
No doubt many of the bigwigs in town for all the art stars, megagalleries and super-auctions, missed maybe the best secret show in New York at the moment, this six-artist exhibition of Australian Aboriginal women painters curated by the president of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia — a show that gives us a breathtaking small survey of what critic Robert Hughes (who in almost every case except this I disagreed with) called “the last great art movement of the twentieth century.”
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Beyond The Veil curated by Adam Knight