(East Williamsburg, New York) - What The Poet Said To The Painter is a solo presentation of works by Emilia Olsen, featuring a collaboration with the poet Jamie Hood.
This exhibition is a love letter to Olsen’s community, and the artists and writers who inspire her practice. The show is centered around Le Tableaux, a painting of a party with no people. A table at golden hour is set with artist ephemera: Asp and Hand glasses, food cravings, cigarettes, shells, sketchbooks, painting materials, a bird—a scrubjay—named Nufrank1, and a corner of Hood’s 2020 book how to be a good girl which features paintings by Olsen on the cover.
Other paintings in the show linger on a dreamlike, intimate portrait of Olsen’s day to day, while borrowing narratives from mythology, fairy tales and poetry, signaled in the paintings’ titles.
The exhibition also ruminates on the contextual and mutual understanding between poets and painters, via an animated reading of Hood’s poem “Mourning Doves.” The animation (2021) is comprised of over 1,300 hand printed oil monotypes.
What The Poet Said... will be accompanied by a limited edition artist book featuring select monotypes from the animation, a catalogue of paintings from the show, and new poems by Hood.
These works show us the tender underbelly of what joy means up close during this strange new spring, and encourages us to show gratitude for it: the whatever gets you through the day.
i think tonight i should moon
-bathe utter secret names to the stamens of a thousand
thousand cornflowers they wild their bloom-ears
toward my voice i siren but i let them live
Emilia Olsen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989, and grew up in Wisconsin. In 2011, she received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC. She has exhibited her work nationally, with solo shows at Arts & Leisure (NY) and Doppelganger |Studio (Queens) and notable recent group exhibitions at the Spring Break Art Show (NY), Freight & Volume (NY), Gallery Also (LA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville), Greenpoint Terminal Gallery (Brooklyn), and Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary (NJ). She has been artist-in-residence at DNA Residency (Provincetown, MA); New York Studio Residency Program (Brooklyn, NY); Starry Nights (Truth Or Consequences, NM); Hotel Belmar (Costa Rica) and the Horse and Art Research Program (Hungary). Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Vogue, Art Maze, Hyperallergic, Maake Magazine, the podcast Sound & Vision and others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
(East Williamsburg, New York) - What The Poet Said To The Painter is a solo presentation of works by Emilia Olsen, featuring a collaboration with the poet Jamie Hood.
This exhibition is a love letter to Olsen’s community, and the artists and writers who inspire her practice. The show is centered around Le Tableaux, a painting of a party with no people. A table at golden hour is set with artist ephemera: Asp and Hand glasses, food cravings, cigarettes, shells, sketchbooks, painting materials, a bird—a scrubjay—named Nufrank1, and a corner of Hood’s 2020 book how to be a good girl which features paintings by Olsen on the cover.
Other paintings in the show linger on a dreamlike, intimate portrait of Olsen’s day to day, while borrowing narratives from mythology, fairy tales and poetry, signaled in the paintings’ titles.
The exhibition also ruminates on the contextual and mutual understanding between poets and painters, via an animated reading of Hood’s poem “Mourning Doves.” The animation (2021) is comprised of over 1,300 hand printed oil monotypes.
What The Poet Said... will be accompanied by a limited edition artist book featuring select monotypes from the animation, a catalogue of paintings from the show, and new poems by Hood.
These works show us the tender underbelly of what joy means up close during this strange new spring, and encourages us to show gratitude for it: the whatever gets you through the day.
i think tonight i should moon
-bathe utter secret names to the stamens of a thousand
thousand cornflowers they wild their bloom-ears
toward my voice i siren but i let them live
Emilia Olsen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989, and grew up in Wisconsin. In 2011, she received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC. She has exhibited her work nationally, with solo shows at Arts & Leisure (NY) and Doppelganger |Studio (Queens) and notable recent group exhibitions at the Spring Break Art Show (NY), Freight & Volume (NY), Gallery Also (LA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville), Greenpoint Terminal Gallery (Brooklyn), and Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary (NJ). She has been artist-in-residence at DNA Residency (Provincetown, MA); New York Studio Residency Program (Brooklyn, NY); Starry Nights (Truth Or Consequences, NM); Hotel Belmar (Costa Rica) and the Horse and Art Research Program (Hungary). Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Vogue, Art Maze, Hyperallergic, Maake Magazine, the podcast Sound & Vision and others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
(East Williamsburg, New York) - What The Poet Said To The Painter is a solo presentation of works by Emilia Olsen, featuring a collaboration with the poet Jamie Hood.
This exhibition is a love letter to Olsen’s community, and the artists and writers who inspire her practice. The show is centered around Le Tableaux, a painting of a party with no people. A table at golden hour is set with artist ephemera: Asp and Hand glasses, food cravings, cigarettes, shells, sketchbooks, painting materials, a bird—a scrubjay—named Nufrank1, and a corner of Hood’s 2020 book how to be a good girl which features paintings by Olsen on the cover.
Other paintings in the show linger on a dreamlike, intimate portrait of Olsen’s day to day, while borrowing narratives from mythology, fairy tales and poetry, signaled in the paintings’ titles.
The exhibition also ruminates on the contextual and mutual understanding between poets and painters, via an animated reading of Hood’s poem “Mourning Doves.” The animation (2021) is comprised of over 1,300 hand printed oil monotypes.
What The Poet Said... will be accompanied by a limited edition artist book featuring select monotypes from the animation, a catalogue of paintings from the show, and new poems by Hood.
These works show us the tender underbelly of what joy means up close during this strange new spring, and encourages us to show gratitude for it: the whatever gets you through the day.
i think tonight i should moon
-bathe utter secret names to the stamens of a thousand
thousand cornflowers they wild their bloom-ears
toward my voice i siren but i let them live
Emilia Olsen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989, and grew up in Wisconsin. In 2011, she received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC. She has exhibited her work nationally, with solo shows at Arts & Leisure (NY) and Doppelganger |Studio (Queens) and notable recent group exhibitions at the Spring Break Art Show (NY), Freight & Volume (NY), Gallery Also (LA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville), Greenpoint Terminal Gallery (Brooklyn), and Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary (NJ). She has been artist-in-residence at DNA Residency (Provincetown, MA); New York Studio Residency Program (Brooklyn, NY); Starry Nights (Truth Or Consequences, NM); Hotel Belmar (Costa Rica) and the Horse and Art Research Program (Hungary). Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Vogue, Art Maze, Hyperallergic, Maake Magazine, the podcast Sound & Vision and others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
