Art Basel
How did this happen? A second ago it was summer, I blinked, and now here we are on the verge of winter!
Art Basel Miami is always hectic, but so satisfying and filled with more art than one person can see. If you will be in town for the mayhem this year, I hope you'll visit one of the events in which I'm a participant.
Miami, Littlest Sister group show at Anthony Spinello Gallery , running until December 10th. A micro art fair that is a refreshing change from the standard format. The work in this show is smaller format, and more affordable to assist enthusiastic collectors at this rough economic time.
Miami, Aqua Art Fair, Booth 11, Harold Golen Gallery, December 3 - 6: New World Order group show presented by Harold Golen. www.aquaartmiami.com. Harold Golen presents artwork around this popular theme.
Miami, Multiversal group show American Legion Building, December 3 - 6: www.multiversalgroupshow.com. 6445 NE 7th Ave in the Miami Modern District. Several international galleries join forces to display work by over 150 artists.
Shows outside of Miami:
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Bear & Bird Gallery, Small Stuff group show, running until January 9th: www.bearandbird.com. This exciting little gallery perched atop of Tate's Comics presents its annual group show of small format paintings at extremely reasonable prices.
Hollywood, FL, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, TIME + TEMP: Surveying the Shifting Climate of Painting in South Florida group show, running until January 10th. On display: "work by over 50 artists who are in different ways investigating and pushing prevailing definitions of painting." Check it out here.
And more good stuff coming up in a future bulletin -- stay tuned!
Recent Past:
Miami New Times presented me with a "Mastermind Award" on November 16th. My thanks to the New Times team for the award and a fantastic event full of art, fashion, skateboarding and fun. Event synopsis
Sean Piccoli interviewed me for a piece he wrote on the Norman Rockwell exhibit that arrived in Fort Lauderdale in early November. I'm honored to be mentioned in an article with an artist I have admired so much. "Olsen . . . [takes] part in the festivities surrounding Art Basel, the contemporary art-world expo that comes to Miami Beach every December. And Art Basel is not a Norman Rockwell kind of event. It favors the post-modern visual vocabulary advanced by the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: abstraction, ambiguity, irony, quotation." The full article can be found here
The Early Show on CBS used one of my paintings to illustrate "Stingy Jack" in their November 1st story about Jack-O-Lanterns. It's a cool story and fun to see an old painting from 2003. Check it out here.