Garrison Art Center is pleased to announce ‘Shift’, an exhibition by M Pettee Olsen
Garrison Art Center (GAC) is pleased to announce ‘Shift,’ an exhibition of paintings by artist M Pettee Olsen. The exhibition will run from April 13 – May 5, 2024, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 13, 2024, from 5-7 pm. The luminous surface and vitality in mark-making have become increasingly important to M Pettee Olsen’s work. Drawn to color and movement to reference art histories in abstraction, motion, disruption, and the slippery nature of reality, she seeks not to obliterate or erase histories but rather to reference them obliquely. For Pettee Olsen, color and light are very much a part of that slippery sense of the world. She uses this as her guide as she adds, removes, and moves paint by diverse methods, like gravity, embracing its effects on the paint. Color and the quoted gesture are essential to her concerns in art – they are instrumental in addressing the changeable nature of perception and the subversion of absolutist narratives.In addition to the exhibition, there will be an Artist Talk on April 14 with Meg Hitchcock at 3 – 4 pm. This event will be free and open to the public.
Apr 13, 2024 – May 05, 2024 5:00 pm Until 7: 00 pm GARRISON ART CENTER 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 12508 845.424.3960 gallery@garrisonartcenter.org
RELAY – Paintings by Margaret Pettee Olsen, curated by art historian Stephanie Grilli, Yale PhD
808 Projects, Denver, Colorado
M. (Margaret) Pettee Olsen is included in renowned artist Allan McCollum’s project 1001 MODERN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW, an edifying collectors’ list of ‘Who’s Who The Art World” — and female. Allan McCollum is included in the list, hiding his ‘signature’ in plain sight — immersive installations concerned with the nature of the unique vs the mass-produced and materiality vs value.