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

In Their Studios – In conversation with M Pettee Olsen

sweeping brushstrokes are at once spontaneous and choreographed, suggesting a painter who confidently engages her whole body in the creative process… She uses a variety of paint media, including some with reflective properties, to play with luminosity, depth, and perception. Indeed, Pettee Olsen is interested in how we perceive the world, how we interpret it through our respective lenses, and finally, how we form narratives around our subjective experiences.

-Meg Hitchcock

ART CURIOUS-CONTEMPORARY – IMPLODING MEANING – A Reflection by M Pettee Olsen

SHOUTOUT MIAMI – Interview with M Pettee Olsen by Sofia Ramirez

…unrelenting curiosity about what paint can suggest and where it can take us – perceptually, emotionally, and intellectually.

– M Pettee Olsen in conversation for SHOUTOUT MIAMI

Palmer Gallery Exhibit Explores the Importance of Abstraction by Ganesh Pillai

IMPLODING MEANING, curated by Monica Church

The James Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

…the majority of the painting feels entirely random, unable to be described or put in a box. Embodying the abstractness of “Imploding Meaning,” … with the only undeniable quality being the talent and care put into the piece.

-Arts Editor Ganesh Pillai, Miscellany News, Vassar
— on the paintings of M. Pettee Olse

ELEMENTAL FICTIONS

Elemental Fictions, A group exhibition curated by Jessica Nissen and Lowell Boyers

The Coral Door, New York, New York

THINGLY AFFINITIES – Symposium by Taney Roniger

THINGLY AFFINITIES, Rethinking Aesthetic Form for a Posthumanist Future – An online symposium directed by Taney Roniger, New York, New York

with invited commentary by Art Historian Stephanie Grilli, Yale PhD

 …Pettee Olsen works with refraction, dissimilar actions and strategies, as well color bars and floaters that partake of  boundlessness, and sensation. With reconfiguring planes and light-reflective media, the paintings resist any coherent reading and are insistently perceptually interactive…

-Stephanie Grilli, art historian, PhD Yale – Thingly Affinities symposium, conducted by Taney Roniger, New York, New York

…polymer-layered canvases that are painted in broadly brushed swaths of organic tangles, drips and markings she calls “edits.”

– Susan Froyd, Arts writer for WestWord – Village Voice

WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION

William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado

 Striking and beautifully conceived.
All of Pettee Olsen’s paintings have an ethereal glow, almost glistening.

-Michael Paglia, WestWord review of WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION,
William Havu Gallery

COALESCE | Group Exhibition

Coalesce, Goodwin F/A , Denver Colorado

The Galleries Last Show

The show also reveals Goodwin’s interest in contemporary abstraction, especially paintings and works on paper that are expressive but often non-objective. Among the artists in this group are Margaret Pettee Olsen…

-Michael Paglia, WestWord review of Goodwin F/A Presents Final Show – Coalesce

THE REALITY OF ABSTRACTION — Paintings by MARGARET PETTEE OLSEN

CO Yale Association Artist-Curator-Talk

MUTUAL ART, M PETTEE OLSEN – RELAY, curated by Stephanie Grilli

RELAY – Paintings by Margaret Pettee Olsen, curated by art historian Stephanie Grilli, Yale PhD

808 Projects, Denver, Colorado

Insistently interactive, Pettee Olsen’s canvases are mutable perceptual events that partake of ambiguity, boundlessness, and sensation.

Stephanie Grilli, Art Historian and curator

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.