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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TV Moore April Fools
Australian artist John Olsen - A larrikin legend still breaking all the rules
Australian Womens WeeklySusan Chenery
April 2017
Living the artistic life sounds romantic, but there have been some dark and difficult moments in the life of the irrepressible artist John Olsen and his family. Susan Chenery meets a living legend and his talented offspring.
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John Olsen New works
"Hello my lovelies": Artist John Olsen greets his past at the Art Gallery of NSW Retrospective
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
10 March 2017
"Hello, my lovelies, you are still here," the artist John Olsen exclaims as if approaching old friends. On the wall of the Art Gallery of NSW are a series of oils painted in the early 1960s from which the new retrospective, John Olsen: the you beaut country, borrows its laconic title.
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How art helped John Olsen through heartbreak
The Daily TelegraphElizabeth Fortescue
9 March 2017
ARTISTS often talk about their studios as locations of solitude and retreat. But John Olsen's beautiful Southern Highlands workspace took on an even deeper dimension late last year.
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Julian Meagher
Art GuideVaria Karipoff
2 March 2017
His story has been told numerous times across media – often with just a lingering hint of incredulity. Julian Meagher completed a medical degree before embarking on a career as a painter. Though in truth his interest in art never waned, somehow finding time to undertake a classical education in portrait painting at Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence, midway through his medical studies.
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Julian Meagher There is hope to the last flower
Laura Jones - Bleached
The Design FilesLucy Feagins
2 March 2017
Best known in recent years for her distinctive flower paintings, this year Sydney artist Laura Jones explores emotive new territory.
With an urge to learn more about the Great Barrier Reef's devastating mass bleaching event of 2016, Laura sought out a residency on Lizard Island, and then more recently on Heron Island. Painting in close proximity to the reef, and meeting the dedicated scientists who study it, has inspired a spectacular new series of paintings for Laura.
We talked with Laura ahead of her upcoming exhibition ‘Bleached‘ at Olsen Gallery in Sydney, opening mid-May.
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Laura Jones Bleached
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
Powerful Australia: TV Moore
Vogue ItaliaFrancesco Spampinato
March 2014
A 40-year-old from Canberra, Timothy Vernon Moore is one of the stars of the imminent Sydney Biennale, “You imagine what you desire” (21/03 - 9/06), with a retrospective at the Campbelltown Art Centre. Despite the fact that he has lived in New York for some time, Australia remains one of his points of reference.
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Tim Olsen takes the leap into the cut-throat New York art world
Sydney Morning HeraldAndrew Hornery
27 January 2017
Sydney art dealer Tim Olsen is about to open the doors on one of his most ambitious projects yet: his own gallery in the thick of New York's cut-throat contemporary art gallery scene.
Located on Elizabeth Street in Soho's established gallery enclave, Olsen told PS he was confident the move would be a success, with a long list of Australian and international artists set to grace its walls.
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Artist John Olsen celebrates 89th birthday at Newcastle Art Gallery
Newcastle HeraldSam Rigney
22 January 2017
ABOUT a year ago, iconic Australian artist John Olsen agreed to create an iconic painting that would capture the essence of his birthplace.
It was a deeply personal work, a reflection on his beginnings.
Unfortunately, illness meant he couldn’t be there when the exhibition opened in November last year.
But on Saturday at Newcastle Art Gallery – just a short distance from his childhood home – Olsen got to share a piece of that work, a slice of the Hunter, with hundreds of other art lovers.
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Step inside the world of extraordinary bird photographer Leila Jeffreys
The Sydney Morning HeraldMark Dapin
7 January 2017
The Herald's photographer Peter Rae is thrilled to meet my lunch date, Leila Jeffreys.
"This is great," he gushes. "I've seen your work for ages and ages. I want to stand here and just go 'Wow', it's so gorgeous'."
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A great Australian artist John Olsen
John Olsen, is a lover of many things: people, food, literature, and the
natural world. Above all, Olsen is a lover of art and life. Listen in
as Olsen tells stories of his life, work and an enduring passion for
capturing the spirit of the Australian landscape.
Related exhibition:
The You Beaut Country, National Gallery of Victoria
John Olsen: The You Beaut Country offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine Olsen?s consummate place in Australian art history. His You beaut country series, which followed his return to Australia in 1960 after three years travelling in Europe, began what would be a lifelong interest in representing the landscape and Australian identity. These works are presented alongside his more recent paintings, prints and watercolours, including those inspired by the filling of Lake Eyre. The exhibition reveals an artist who at 88 years of age has lost none of his passion for his subject matter, nor his creative vitality and retains a unique ability to capture the spirit of the Australian landscape.
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Bleached: Laura Jones
The GuardianMichael Slezak
30 December 2016
The artist says her undeniably sad portraits of bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef are about resilience: ‘It’s not a fragile delicate flower … it’s so important to be optimistic and do what we can to protect it’
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Laura Jones Bleached
The Metaphysical erotic art of Alphachannelling
Juztapoz.comNovember 2016
Alphachanneling is a Swiss-born American artist based out of Oakland, California whose erotic artwork is a testament to the metaphysical plane of sexuality, exploring the more unseen facets of sex rather than the physical. He refers to his own artwork as a "devotional prayer to the feminine principal."
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Alphachanneling (Summer Show)
SON OF THE BRUSH
Vogue AustraliaTim Olsen
October 2016
John Olsen is one of Australia's greatest living artists. Here, his son, gallerist Tim Olsen, who helped curate a new retrospective, reflects on his bohemian childhood and gives a rare insight into his father's powerful ability and influence
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John Olsen retrospective: Brimming with life and love
The Sydney Morning HeraldHannah Francis
14 September 2016
If painting is dead, as some art critics say, nobody told John Olsen. "I'd like to know the time of death," he says with the brightest of glints in his eye. "I'm alive. So painting isn't dead."
At 88 years old and widely considered Australia's greatest living painter, Olsen is about to launch his largest ever retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria.
The Sun King
The Weekend AustralianAshleigh Wilson
10 - 11 September 2016
John Olsen's second major retrospective, 25 years after the first, is a landmark for our greatest living artist
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John Olsen: at home with the Australian artist
The Sydney Morning HeraldAmanda Hooton
3 September 2016
Over lunch at his home in the NSW southern highlands, John Olsen shares with Amanda Hooton a lifetime of insights into landscape, poetry and painting.
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How gallery owner Tim Olsen found out who he really was
The Australian Financial ReviewSally Patten
27 August 2016
I had hoped that by asking Tim Olsen to have Lunch with the AFR, we might discuss the state of the contemporary art market, the amusing and less amusing side of life as an art dealer and growing up as the son of one of Australia's most successful painters.
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German Expressionist Prints: haunting images of war and decay
The AustralianChristopher Allen
11 August 2016
One of the best exhibitions in Sydney at the moment is to be found not in the big museums but at the Olsen/Irwin Gallery in a quiet street in Woollahra. It is the work of Rex Irwin and reminds us of the loss his imminent retirement will represent: apart from anything else, he has been one of the only Sydney dealers with the expertise and contacts to present fine prints and drawings from the baroque to the modernist periods....
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