Harry Roberts
April 2018
A brush with nature lead Julian Meagher to widen his world view as seen in his luminous new work.
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Butt Naked Salon
November 2017At the end of November of 2017 Alan Jones performed an evocation of a bohemian art salon that merges music, live drawing and painting. He painted the walls of Yellow House while the Sydney Art Quartet performed Schubert, Sculthorpe & Finzi with Musings from Tim Olsen.
Liquitex Australia has released a clip on their youtube summarising the event.
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Is Damien Hirst's Latest Series a Ripoff of an Aboriginal Australian Artist? See the Works Side-by-Side
Artnet.comSarah Cascone
March 30, 2018
Damien Hirst's new work looks a lot like the paintings of famed Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
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Damien Hirst Denies Ripping Off Female Aboriginal Artists Was "Unaware" of Their Work
ObserverDaniel Grant
March 29, 2018
Lots of art looks (and sounds and reads) like other art, which is why fine artists and musicians and authors periodically lob accusations of “stealing” at one another.
View works by Kathy Maringka "Tali Ngura - Sandhill Country " and "Tjulpuntjulpunpa " featured in the Olsen Gruin 2017 exhibition "Sharing Country ".
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Stephen Ormandy Only Dancing
SURFACE MAGAZINE Weekend Cheat SheetSurface Editors
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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The Fitzpartick-Leland House
Paul Davies talks about The Fitzpatrick-Leland House.
Mak Centre for Art and Architecture 2017.
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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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ZOE YOUNG
In/OutArtent & Pyke
February 2018
Zoe Young has been featured on IN/OUT by Arent & Pyke after her very successful show at Olsen's Annexe gallery.
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Julian Meagher | Inlet Outlet
https://gallery.begavalley.nsw.gov.auFebruary 2018
In April 2017 Bega Valley Regional Gallery welcomed prominent Sydney artist Julian Meagher as inaugural artist in residence. A pilot project for a long term partnership between the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the BVRG, the residency offered the opportunity for visual artists to draw from the unique natural environment of the local region, whilst connecting with regional communities and expanding their practice outside of metropolitan studios.
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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'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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Mark Reddie ABC News Breakfast "Robert Klippel exhibition"
Mark Reddie interviewing Tim Olsen on ABC News Breakfast about the upcoming Robert Klippel exhibition at Sydney Contemporary 2017.
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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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Hayley Megan-French
Jan 2018
There is much competition for the grant and artist-in-redisnce opportunities in Australia and beyone. We take a look at two artists who have met with the approval of the institutions responsible for administering these opportunities.
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Elena Goukassian
12 January 2018
Don’t focus on the closings. Three cheers for new galleries!
Image: OLSEN GRUIN installed with its summer show, Wesley Martin Berg and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (courtesy OLSEN GRIUIN)
Art galleries are kind of like restaurants. It’s a hard business, and although it’s always sad when one closes (especially after many years serving the neighborhood), when a new one opens, it brings new promise. While 2017 saw the closing of venues like Envoy Enterprises, CRG Gallery, and Sandra Gering Inc., it also witnessed the opening of several brand new galleries in New York City. Here are a few of them [extract]
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AUSTRALIAN STORY: Adrenaline Brush: Sophie Cape
2017Described as more like a “rock star” than a painter, Sophie Cape never wanted to be an artist.
A former elite athlete, she was destined for the Olympic Games in two separate sports — first as a downhill ski racer and then as a track cyclist — but her sporting career was shattered after suffering catastrophic injury and undergoing controversial “experimental” body-modification surgery intended to ease her pain and help her performance.
Left physically and psychologically traumatised, Sophie Cape then transformed herself into one of Australia’s most celebrated young artists. It’s a profession she has long resisted, as both her mother Ann Cape and her grandmother the late Gwenna Welch are highly regarded artists. But now Sophie Cape has no doubt about becoming the third generation artist in her family: “Art saved me.”
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Laura Jones in Conversation
Talking art education with Laura Jones, Steven Alderton and Andrew Frost. James Valentine interviews them on his ABC TV series The Mix.
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TV Moore - Double Take: Anne Landa Award 2009
2009TV Moore - Double Take: Anne Landa Award 2009
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Interview: Paul Davies (Hong Kong Tatler, 2013)
The Australian artist shares his story behind the graphic nature of his architectural masterpiece.
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