Join my Facebook Fan PageWORLD WITHOUT A HEADA collaboration between Sarah Olson and members of the Wendy Osserman Dance Company Thursday, Oct 15th
7:30pm The Mazer Theater at The Education Alliance Utilizing a freestanding set as both scrim and canvas, Olson and dancers, Cori Kresge and Cara Heerdt create illusions of shadow, movement, sound and painted line. more...
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 Cori Kresge and Sarah Olson - Photos by Jeremy Tressler 2009. |
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July 8 - Aug 16th Fresh Asphalt Curated by Eun Young Choi Group show at Gallery Satori Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 7-9pm Gallery SATORI is pleased to present Fresh Asphalt, a group show featuring works by Sandra Bermudez, CJ Collins, Amy Finkbeiner, Ethan Greenbaum, Joyce Kim, Pei-yu Lai, Sky Kim, Margaret Lanzetta, Jisoo Lee, Sarah Olson, Sandra Eula Lee, David Packer, and Nathlie Provosty. Like the freshly poured steaming asphalt in the middle of a hot and sticky summer the artwork in the show all share a rich dark black element. However in contrast to this dark façade they put forth a cool crisp presence that breaths slowly and meditatively. Beginning with material realism, the works in this exhibition deal with the transformation of our notions of the familiar. Some portray organic forms that mysteriously emerge out of darkness while others introduce minimalist shapes that are stripped of all evocative elements except their own luminous presence. From an organic gestural large-scale charcoal drawing to shiny computer manipulated nightscapes of Shanghai and Tokyo, the show presents a wide array of media including Sintra and melamine paintings, ceramic automobiles, and mixed media leather sculptures. |
Rise of the Soul, 2005. Charcoal and ink on paper. 90 x 150 inches (detail). |
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more is more is more or less A collaborative performance of dance, visual art and music by Sarah Olson, May 21st - 24th 8pm General Admission seating for all performances: $20; $15 seniors/students. Iva Bittová has created songs using text by Gertrude Stein, which she will perform live while four dancers trade identities, avoid narrative and embody paintings by Stein’s friends, Picasso and Matisse. Almost a hundred years later, Stein’s writing continues to sound avant-garde; Osserman and the other performers explore how this can be. Visual artist Sarah Olson will draw in real time, accompanying and merging with the performers. This is the second collaboration between Osserman and Bittová. Osserman’s choreography for their 2008 production, Out of Place was described as “provocative precisely because it feels like a new amalgam of some indefinable kind.” (Roslyn Sulcas, NEW YORK TIMES, 3/29/08). <Continue Press Release> |
Sarah Olson and Iva Bittová performing "Crying" from "more is more is more or less"  |
I exaggerate and combine forms -- distended tree limbs, distorted insects and birds, intestines, breasts, bellies, feet, genitals-- in order to question the origin of every living thing and show the interconnected web and relationship between creatures we consider separate from ourselves. Exploring the fragile and intimate quality of line and the explosive quality of color, I examine how the natural world is constantly being damaged and consumed, as well as how it in turn, is consuming us. My latest work challenges the destructive nature of human assumptions of superiority. It combines features from different life forms, to show inevitable links within earthly existence. 
