Lovie Olivia Explained

Lovie Olivia
Birth Name:Lovie Olivia Nolan
Nationality:American
Education:Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

Lovie Olivia (born Lovie Olivia Nolan[1]) is an American multidisciplinary visual artist. She uses the media of printmaking, painting, and installations to explore themes of gender, sexuality, race, class and power.[2] [3]

Early life and education

Olivia is a native of Houston, Texas and attended Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA).[4] She frequently works on large wood panels covered in multiple layers of plaster which are manipulated and completed with fresco paintings.[5]

Work

As a multidisciplinary artist, Olivia works across various media including printmaking, painting, fresco, digital and graphic design, and audiovisual and sculptural installation. Olivia's work revolves around a number of interrelated issues important for a number underrepresented communities that all connect back to her own identity and life experience under the labeled categories of: "Female, Black, Gay, etc." The press release for Olivia's 2010 solo exhibition Thrice Removed at Spacetaker ARC Gallery in Houston, Texas, characterizes the show as:

A play on the phrase “twice removed” denoting familial relations through a system of “removals,” Olivia re-contextualizes this terminology to imply separation from African traditions and customs, male authority, and heterosexual privilege in this new solo show. Her work explores the multi-dimensionality of women of African Diaspora in light of the challenges and joy associated with a hybridized presence. Part autobiographical-part objective, Olivia zeroes in on the complex histories of racism, sexism, and classism in America, which intersect for ‘thrice’ the barrier to equal opportunity. Her exhibition, influenced by recorded conversations, video footage, folklore, and ancestral documents, redefines these selves outside conventional depictions in a celebration of identity.
In these four sentences alone, readers are made aware of a number of hinge-points for Olivia's work: the ways in which privilege, power, and tradition are shaped and overwritten by monolithic discourses of race, sex, and class. In Thrice Removed, working against the potential to flatten or reduce underrepresented identities, Olivia complicates and expands identity through numerous media and "documents" that emphasize the "truth" of such identity, and yet she also allows space for the discomfort, tensions, and contradictions inherent to such a kind of "hybridized presence." Painting and carving into plaster and pigment, Olivia's "contemporary frescoes" for this exhibition marked a departure in her work to that point.[6]

Career

Olivia is the recipient of the Individual Artist Grant Award 2009 and 2014 offered by Houston Arts Alliance and funded by the City of Houston.[7] In 2018 she was on a panel assembled by the City of Houston to select artists to create 40 new mini-murals for the city.[8] She is a member of the ROUX artist collective alongside Ann Johnson, Rabéa Ballin, and Delita Martin.[9] She has participated in exhibitions, including:

Notes and References

  1. https://fristartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/Multiplicity-Audio-Tour-Script.pdf Frist Art Museum
  2. Web site: ABOUT. LOVIE OLIVIA. en-US. 2017-03-11.
  3. Web site: LOVIE OLIVIA OPEN THE DOOR . openthedoor-houston.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130215071156/http://openthedoor-houston.com/portfolio/lovie-olivia/ . 2013-02-15.
  4. Web site: Interview: Lovie Olivia. Art League Houston. en-US. 2017-03-11.
  5. Web site: Interview: Lovie Olivia. Art League Houston. en-US. 2018-03-26.
  6. News: Artist Quotes: Lovie Olivia. Schulze. Troy. 2010-08-10. Houston Press. 2018-04-21.
  7. Web site: Houston Arts Alliance.
  8. News: New mini murals by new artists coming to Houston neighborhoods. KHOU. 2018-04-15. en-US.
  9. Web site: Interview: Lovie Olivia. Art League Houston. en-US. 2019-03-22.
  10. Web site: Hays . Jodi . 2023-10-24 . Lovie Olivia's Interdisciplinary Work Pushes Boundaries by Ignoring Them . 2024-02-19 . Nashville Scene . en.
  11. Web site: Why this new Frist Art Museum exhibit made the New York Times list of must-see exhibits this fall . 2024-02-19 . The Tennessean . en-US.
  12. Web site: Schiche . Ericka . 2023-05-19 . Lovie Olivia Celebrates Black Culture, Womanhood In Montrose Art Exhibition — This Artist Tells Intelligent Stories . 2024-02-19 . PaperCity Magazine . en-US.
  13. Web site: Civic TV Presents: 9 Sawyer Yards Houston, TX. 2020-06-13. www.sawyeryards.com.
  14. Web site: The Wright Gallery Presents "She Matters" Exhibit. www.austinmonthly.com. en. 2019-03-22.
  15. Web site: Anarchival Impulse. 2019-03-22.
  16. Web site: February 2019. Presa House Gallery. en-US. 2019-03-22.
  17. Web site: Lovie Olivia's 'Tuft & Facet' at Lawndale. 2018-11-09. Glasstire. en-US. 2019-03-22.
  18. Web site: 20th International Open Woman Made Gallery. womanmade.org. 2019-03-22.
  19. Web site: Mirrored Migration. Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. en. 2019-03-22.
  20. Web site: Exhibitions. Galveston Arts Center. en-US. 2019-03-22.
  21. Web site: In Art League Houston Exhibit, Women Artists of Color Grapple with Police Violence. 2017-03-30. The Texas Observer. en-US. 2019-03-22.
  22. News: Art Exhibit by Lovia. VU Calendar. 2017-03-11. en-us.
  23. Web site: FRIENDLY FIRE: Houston Sculpture – Station Museum of Contemporary Art. stationmuseum.com. en-US. 2017-03-11.
  24. Web site: DaMask by Lovie Olivia FreshArts.org. www.fresharts.org. 2017-03-11.
  25. Web site: University Museum at Texas Southern University. University Museum at Texas Southern University. 2017-03-11.
  26. News: Round 39. Project Row Houses. 2017-03-11. en-US.
  27. Web site: Project Row Houses draws from past, looks to the future - HoustonChronicle.com. 2014-01-23. www.houstonchronicle.com. en-US. 2019-03-20.
  28. Web site: University Museum at Texas Southern University. University Museum at Texas Southern University. 2017-03-11.
  29. Web site: Stir – Glasstire. glasstire.com. en-US. 2017-03-11.
  30. News: Printmatters Houston Spices Things Up with The Roux. Osborne. Altamese. 2011-05-24. Houston Press. 2017-03-11.
  31. Web site: Spacetaker ARC Exhibition: "Thrice Removed" by Lovie Olivia - Opening Reception. Eventful. en. 2017-03-11.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Lovie Olivia".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.