Birds of a Feather
Art / EditStephanie Vigilante
September 2019
Leila Jeffreys has dedicated her practice to capturing our feathered friends on film. She talks to Stephanie Vigilante about the power of the portrait.
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Focus on Photography: 7 Not-To-Be-Missed Solo Shows in New York
Galerie MagazinePaul Laster
September 18, 2019
Contemporary photography is a major focus of the city??s September shows.
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George Byrne EXIT VISION 3D Tour
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Something Isn't Quite Right in George Byrne's Photographs
SurfaceRyan Waddoups
September 11, 2019
The Australian artist??s latest photo series, on display at Olsen Gruin in New York City, stitches together scenic collages of Los Angeles, Miami, and Sydney to create radiant, semi-fictional landscapes that feel slightly off.
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The Imagined Architecture of George Byrne's
WhitewallKaty Donoghue
September 5, 2019
George Byrne's "Exit Vision" opens this week at Olsen Gruin in New York. The new series of work includes pastel photo-collages of images captured in Miami, Los Angeles, and Sydney - inspired by architecture, color, and culture.
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Artist You Need to Know: George Byrne
Art ZealousCaitlin Confort
September 4, 2019
Art Zealous' Caitlin Confort sits down with artist George Byrne to discuss his photography practice, his collaborations with Soho House, and his newest exhibition at Olsen Gruin, Exit Vision.
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21 Gallery Shows You Won't Want to Miss in New York This Fall, From Amy Sherald's Star Turn to a Historic Cuban Artist's US Debut
Artnet NewsCaroline Goldstein & Sarah Cascone
September 3, 2019
Artnet News highlights George Byrne: Exit Vision as a must see show this fall.
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Creatures 3D Tour
August 20193D Tour of 'Creatures' 2019 Group Summer exhibition
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Drawn to Dusk - Artist Paul Davies puts his crafted LA work on show at Sydney
Australian Financial ReviewHelen O'Neil
3 October 2015
Paul Davies cuts his stencils with the same kind of scalpel blade his ophthalmologist father uses to slice into eyes. The results are different of course. Davies junior's use of the scalpel is potentially far less messy and brings forth images that are apparently serene and seemingly two-dimensional. Yet the issue of redefining vision is the same. That is a theme that has defined this 36-year-old artist's career to this date. Born in Sydney, now living in Los Angeles, he often uses mid-20th-century modern architecture in his work yet says what is there is not what it seems.
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Paradise Lost: Paul Davies' Fictive California
HyperallergicLouis Bury
Saturday, June 8
The painter's depiction of breezy palm trees and picturesque mountain ranges contain eccentric, discordant details.
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Paul Davies: The Roaring Daze at Olsen Gruin
Whitehot MagazineKurt McVey
June 1, 2019
Davies, a Sydney, Australia native now living in Los Angeles, pulls his visual references heavily from legendary if not infamous architectural structures, which he personally documents using digital photography and later (often years later) renders up in his large-scale, pulpy (in the full Tarantino version of the word) acrylic on canvas paintings. The show also features one-off, sunset-pastel, long-exposure photograms as well as his minimal, hand-painted, laser cut sculptures.
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Step Into Australian Desert Dreamtime at Olsen Gruin Gallery
LA WeeklyJordan Riefe
May 10, 2019
Walk into Olsen Gruin Gallery in Culver City and step into another place and time. Surrounding viewers are what look like large-scale abstract expressionist paintings from the mid-century by mavericks who drank, cursed and smoked too much. But titles like "Mamungari ‘nya," "Ngura Pilti" and "Ngayuka mamaku ngura ini Makiri," all painted in 2018, are the first hint these might not be what they look like. In fact, they are figurative paintings by indigenous artists from Central Australia that constitute the dazzling new show, APY Lands LA: Central Desert Painters of Australia, through May 30 in Culver City. Presented in partnership with the Australian Consulate-General Los Angeles, it is the largest collection of Australian indigenous art ever shown in the Southland.
Featured image: Taylor Cooper, "Malara: 1 Wanampi Tjukurpa" 2018. acrylic on linen, 59.8 x 48 inches
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Exhibition 3D Tour
April 2019View 3D Tour of the APY Lands exhibition at Olsen Gruin
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YARITJI YOUNG + TJALA ARTS: APY LANDS
The Brooklyn RailJonathan Goodman
April 12, 2019
Jonathan Goodman's Brooklyn Rail review of APY Lands explores Dreamtime paintings by Central Desert painters of Australia Yaritji Young, The Mitakiki Women's Collaborative and Sylvia Ken. These artists' aesthetic voice renders an ancient artistic tradition anew through exuberance and a freely expressed hand and holds an important place in the global artistic continuum. The energies and vibrancy of the paintings echo throughout the exhibition.
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Surfacing: The art of Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy
Art Monthly, Issue 313Michael Fitzgerald
Summer 2018-19
The oozing amoebic forms, fashioned from resin, that have become signature pieces from Sydney's Dinosaur Designs since the mid-1980s, always seemed to signal a desire to transform into something else. As have their City Art Institute-trained creators, Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, who established the iconic brand with Liane Rossler in 1985. Now the pair's lesser-known artistic oeuvre, drawn from a shared 30-year studio practice and on display at the Newscastle Art Gallery until 17 February 2019, reveals a modernith aesthetic as seemingly simple and slippery as those early resin forms, moving from intimate and ethereal studies in watercolour and oil (Olsen) to tumescent totemic sculpture and three-dimensional collage (Ormandy).
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2018 Art Basel Guide To The Best Events You Won't Easily Find
The Aspiring GentlemanAndrew Nackton
December 3, 2018
Miami??s 2018 Art Basel festival is upon us this starting this week which just so happens to be where we live. That makes us self-proclaimed ??Art Basel Experts? and now it??s time to listen up. We??re not going to send you to anything not worthy of an ??Aspiring Gentleman??. Take notes and fill up you 2018 Art Basel schedule wisely.
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Rhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound
The Brooklyn RailJonathan Goodman
November 19, 2018
In these two shows gallery visitors have the opportunity to view two very different, but very gifted artists. Rhys Lee is an Australian artist in his early forties; this show examples a series of paintings based on a 1970s New York City subway cartoon, made by graffiti artist Mitch 77, of an orange Pluto (the cartoon dog) wearing white gloves and a blue bowtie. Kevin Bourgeois is a New York-based, musically oriented artist whose work here consists of record jackets assembled with pieces taken from different covers.
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A Good Boy and a Wall of Sound at Olsen Gruin Gallery
Quiet LunchKurt McVey
November 14, 2018
There isn’t much time left to catch one of the best two-person shows on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, or more accurately, two unique, but not so disparate exhibitions; Kevin Bourgeois’ Wall of Sound and Rhys Lee’s Good Boy, both seamlessly coexisting inside Olsen Gruin Gallery and coming down Sunday, November 18th.
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"Wall of Sound" by Kevin Bourgeois at Olsen Gruin, New York
BLOUIN ARTINFOOctober 24, 2018
Self-taught artist Kevin Bourgeois' solo exhibition, "Wall of Sound" features a curated selection of conceptual record jacket collages that present visuals inspired by Phil Spector's philosophies on sound mixing.
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'Rhys Lee: Good Boy' at Olsen Gruin, New York
BLOUIN ARTINFOOctober 24, 2018
Melbourne-based painter Rhys Lee comes from a background of street art. His latest, vibrant oil paintings featuring abstracted graffiti-inspired figures in sumptuous "gelato colors" grace the walls of Olsen Gruin in the current solo exhibition, "Good Boy," on view through November 18.
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