- http://denverarts.org/other_exhibits/margaret_pettee_olsen_at_the_ucf_center_for_emerging_media Nov 1, 2015
Fun inclusion: 1001 MODERN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW is an anonymous list (though likely developed by conceptual artist: Allan McCollum) of artists that are considered noteworthy today. All the artists on the list appear to be women, save McCollum. Allan McCollum creates installations that address ideas of uniqueness amidst large numbers. For the complete list of artists, please visit the following link: http://artarchives.net/artists/modern_artists.html?fbclid=IwAR05Fo6NJFqSLlppuSzzAn4D2pi7ExdGuZHf859ubfXZrkjBxLaYouLWMOw
“When First Friday collides with Denver Arts Week on Friday, November 2, it will create an explosion of exhibition openings, $52.80 art deals at galleries all over town and, as it happens, Día de los Muertos street celebrations connected to artwalks in the Santa Fe Drive and 40 West arts districts. On Saturday, November 3, take advantage of DAW’s Night at the Museums to visit the Denver Art Museum, the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, the Clyfford Still Museum and the Byers-Evans House Museum gallery in the Golden Triangle, as well as the close-by Museo de las Americas, all for free. You’ll also find plenty of art to explore in RiNo and other regional art districts. But just in case you’re still confused about where you want to land this weekend, here are some standout stops.”
– Susan Froyd,–Westword, A Village Voice magazine covering the west, Nov 1, 2018
“Margaret Pettee Olsen, an abstract painter with a background in limited-edition lithography, brings a printmaker’s ethos into her work, which consists of polymer-layered canvases that are painted in broadly brushed swaths of organic tangles, drips and markings she calls “edits.” See Pettee Olsen’s latest at this exhibition curated by Denver art writer Stephanie Grilli. ” –Susan Froyd, Art critic, WestWord –A Village Voice publicaton
…Stand out two-venue exhibit, Made In Colorado features artists who have working studios in the state. Pictured below on opening night is internationally renowned curator, Olga Viso and Artist/Publisher Cameron Keith Gainer, in front of, “TMI with Red Edits”. The two created the survey that celebrates “the best contemporary art in the state”. Jeff Lambson of Emmanuel Gallery, and Wayne Rogers of 808 Projects, are directors of the participating venues respectively. “TMI with Red Edits” (below), installed at 808 Projects in the arts district in downtown Denver. June 7th – July 30th
Pictured here: Opening night with Olga Viso and Cameron Keith Gainer with Margaret Pettee Olsen’s, painting, “TMI with Red Edits” installed on the north wall of the gallery.
— 808 Projects
“Pettee Olsen’s series of large scale canvases mimic the vacancy of digital overlays using only paint and the incredibly emotive hands of the painter herself.”— Elizabeth Lee, Arts writer, Art New England, Nov, 2016
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Courtesy of the Center for Visual Art/MSUD Margaret Pettee Olsen,”Vortex.”
“Women artists, long victims of the grip of critical subjugation, are beginning to get their due, thanks in part to groundbreaking exhibitions like Gwen Chanzit’s Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum. With a national show of that scope on the local lineup, Cecily Cullen of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art decided to do something similar for Colorado’s healthy contingent of female abstractionists, and Westword critic Michael Paglia, a scholar of abstract art with a unique knowledge of who’s who in the state, was the clear choice to curate the CVA’s satellite exhibit. The result, Colorado Women in Abstraction, opens with a reception at 6 p.m. on July 15.” — Susan Froyd, Art critic, WestWord –A Village Voice publicatoin http://www.westword.com/event/colorado-women-in-abstraction-7923758
Margaret Pettee Olsen at the UCF Center for Emerging Media
“File Not Found, Gallery EOSS, “Pettee Olsen is an accomplished painter whose brushwork offers much to contemplate and absorb. Her large canvases are blatantly abstract but so rich in color, texture and gesture that one finds traces of the figurative. Her mark-making evokes image-editing software with graphic overlays, howling blank space, and chaotic trails of paint that weave sometimes fluidly, sometimes jarringly, through one another…. Pettee Olsen layers paint until it achieves a kind of controlled chaos, eventually approximating the feeling of what she calls a “media-driven version of experience.”
“… In this intriguing show, Kane and Pettee Olsen search for new forms to host the wild hordes of zeroes and ones we encounter in our daily lives.” — Alexander Castro freelance journalist and arts writer, Attleboro, Mass.
“…Margaret seems to draw from art history itself…from the caves of Lascaux to the canvases of Pollock. You can also trace her roots as a one-time dancer and print maker (for the likes of Motherwell, De Kooning and Stella). She builds intriguing surfaces by impregnating the work with metal pigment, creating pieces that are deep, light reactive, lush and rich, with a commanding scale and color range.” — Patrick J Hamilton, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th Street, New York, New York
“Pettee Olsen’s abstractions use reflective pigments, creating color-shifting surfaces which change depending on the light and the viewer’s perspective. …the artist records entries and departures of movement through these worlds through her handling of the paint with brush and other, more discreet methods of application, inviting the viewer to enter in.” — Published on October 27, 2010, for UCF – Center for Emerging Media – Studio Art and Computer Gallery, 500 West Livingston Street, Orlando, FL
© Margaret Pettee Olsen 2019