Beyond The Veil
curated by Adam Knight
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.
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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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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
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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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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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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.
BEYOND THE VEIL CURATED BY ADAM KNIGHT
May 16 ?? July 8, 2018
OLSEN GRUIN NY
-Jonathan Goodman
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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.
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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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Blouin ArtInfoMay 29, 2018
Olsen Gruin is currently hosting a group exhibition titled "Beyond The Veil."
Until July 8, 2018, Olsen Gruin will host an exhibition that celebrates Aboriginal Australian artistic practices. ??Beyond the Veil? features a group of contemporary Australian artists. It has been made possible by the gallery??s collaboration with the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia. The group show will be on view at the gallery??s New York venue.
This group exhibition of Central Desert Paintings has been curated by the President of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia, Adam Knight. The anticipated show features select works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Evelyn Pultara, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Gayla Pwerle, Polly Ngale, and the Women??s Collaborative comprising Beverly Cameron, Kathy Marinkga, Imitjala Curley, and Tjangili George.
Featured: Untitled 1993 Emily Kame Kngwarreye Synthetic polymer paints on Belgian linen 23.6 x 35 inches (59.9 x 88.9 cm)
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www.artweek.comEmerald Gruin
13 May 2018
Olsen Gruin is pleased to present Beyond the Veil, a group exhibition of Central Desert Paintings curated by the President of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia, Adam Knight. The anticipated show features select works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Evelyn Pultara, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Gayla Pwerle, Polly Ngale, and the Women’s Collaborative comprising Beverly Cameron; Kathy Marinkga, Imitjala Curley, and Tjangili George, and will be on view from May 16 – July 8, 2018.
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