Nancy Olivier - Non-Specific Gravity

Nancy Olivier - Non-Specific Gravity
  • Title: Nancy Olivier - Non-Specific Gravity
  • Dimensions: 72 x 132
  • Materials: Acrylic and ink on wall
  • Primary Medium: ink drawing
  • Year Created: 2011
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Artwork Description


My entry is a drawing made directly on the wall at the Painting Center, NYC, this Spring in a show called "Wall Works", curated by Stephen Maine. It is liquid acrylic and ink, applied with a calligrapher's dip-pen, 72" high x 132" wide. The layers of the distorted grids twist and curl around each other, sometimes echoing the shapes on top of and beneath them. This interaction produces a disorienting, almost 3D effect, which serves to locate the drawing in space, floating in front of the wall.

Nancy Olivier

Nancy Olivier

In my latest series of drawings, I am working with a warped and flattened matrix, and have loosened the hierarchical x/y lattice to the point of collapse. Lines combine to suggest loose ‘grids’, or a type of track, that through repetition produces a sense of ‘pattern recognition’, proffering literalness without pinning itself to representation. This exchange between metaphor and object sets up a dialectic tension of ontological identity. The drawings are made on paper, and also directly on the wall. I have been making wall works since 1993, and the entry I am submitting was in "Wall Works" at the Painting Center, this year. My abstract drawings and paintings have been featured in many venues, including The Painting Center, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Robert Pardo Gallery, Kim Foster Gallery, White Columns, PS 122, Marymount Manhattan College, and 55 Mercer. Among my awards are grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, NYFA, and ArtistsSpace, as well as artist-in-residence fellowships at the Manhattan Graphics Center, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Altos De Chavon in the Dominican Republic.

Website: www.nancyolivier.com

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