DISGUISE THE LIMIT
Curated by John Yau
M. David & Co. / Art Cake
September 2025
Disguise The Limit, curated by John Yau, Selections from John Yau’s Symposia! at M. David & Co. / Art Cake, Brooklyn, New York
M. Pettee Olsen
SHIFT
Curated by Meg Hitchcock
Garrison Art Center
April 13- May 4, 2024
M. Pettee Olsen SHIFT, curated by Meg Hitchcock, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
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…
—Meg Hitchcock
IMPLODING MEANING
Curated by Monica Church
The James Palmer Gallery, Vassar College
January 2023
Palmer Gallery Exhibit Explores the Importance of Abstraction by Ganesh Pillai
.. Another particularly striking painting is M. Pettee Olsen’s “Red Turn (with Value Scale),” … Embodying the abstractness of “Imploding Meaning.”
— Ganesh Pillai, Vassar review, Miscellany News
Thingly Affinities, an invitational online symposium directed by Taney Roniger, 2020
THINGLY AFFINITIES – A symposium directed by Taney Roniger
… Pettee Olsen works with refraction, dissimilar actions and strategies, as well as 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
WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION
William Havu Gallery
July 14 — July 27, 2019
WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION
Striking and beautifully conceived.
—Michael Paglia, WestWord
Coalesce
Goodwin F/A
November 2018
The show also reveals Goodwin’s interest in contemporary abstraction… Among the artists in this group are Margaret Pettee Olsen…
—Michael Paglia, WestWord
RELAY
Paintings by Margaret Pettee Olsen
Curated by Stephanie Grilli
808 Projects
November 2018
THE REALITY OF ABSTRACTION — Paintings by MARGARET PETTEE OLSEN
Her gestures recall the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism, but 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 and curator PhD Yale
polymer-layered canvases that are painted in broadly brushed swaths of organic tangles, drips, and markings she calls “edits.”
—Susan Froyd, WestWord
Made In Colorado
Emmanuel Gallery + 808 Projects — The College of Arts and Media at CU Denver
June 7 — August 10, 2018
Made In Colorado Emmanuel Gallery + 808 Projects, Denver, CO June 7 – August 10, 2018, juried by Olga Viso, former director of the Walker Art Center and the Hirshhorn Museum, and Cameron Gainer.