…I think I’m where I am today by a crazy, 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

…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 Olsen

 …she 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

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

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

– Susan Froyd, Art writer for WestWord – Village Voice