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SUMMARY:Tina Olsen | Landscapes & Visages
DESCRIPTION:OPENING – Friday May 7 4pm-8pm   Rain date Saturday May 8\nTo be held outside with distanced small group viewing of work inside \nEXHIBIT runs May 7 – May 31 Fridays from 4pm-8pm or by appointment \n \n			 \n				\n				\n				View Tina’s website at  https://www.tinakolsen.com/  Contact her: tinakolsen@aol.com  917-860-5749 \n \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				WHEN DID I KNOW I WAS AN ARTIST \nI was a lonely child\, bored with what adults said and did. I found refuge in nature\, animals and occasionally my twin sisters.They were a year younger than I was. My schizophrenic /autistic brother\, 5 years my junior\, was often left in my care – and was part of the reason\, as an adult \, I would work as an arts therapist. But back in grade school with 40 children in a class\, desks nailed to the floor all in a row\, I would look out the window\, draw and write poetry. We used pen and ink and I remember writing once over and over\,”I will not talk.” \nBut talk I did\, and mostly I was not understood. In college I would loose sight of the topic in stories and metaphors\, never knowing why I was not understood. I would become overwhelmed with my passion for the subject\, and see other relationships to it. I could not understand how the subject wouldn’t be related to all the other things I thought of. \nThe only subject that made any sense to me was art. \nI could never understand how every subject didn’t have to do with every other subject. I didn’t see the point in math or history\, which seemed to be only the history of killing and its dates. I was finding my way.  I looked out the school window\, drawing and writing poetry to pass the time. \nArt put it all together for me. I first fell in love with the abstract expressionist work of sculptor Peter Voulkas. It was emotional and natural looking and I had never seen anything like it. Inspired by him\, I made pots out of rough black clay that looked like big organic rocks. Looking back I see them as expressions of despair as if I were looking to go home into a cave. \nI was born in 1943 just before the war ended and nowhere – not in my family nor any where else – did anyone ever talk openly about fear\, despair\, beauty or anything deeply personal. I remember wondering about that and why no one ever looked at me directly in the eyes. This was New England and people then were very emotionally reticent. \nSo making art became a way for me to find within myself a connection or communion with the world that was otherwise missing. \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				VANCOUVER\, CANADA Series\n			 \n				\n				\n				I painted this series – Vancouver\, Canada – from the window of the overnight train crossing Canada from Toronto to Vancouver just before Covid broke out. It was four days and nights – no distractions but the vibrating of the train\, the penetrating light\, and the endless wilderness that is most of Canada. Throughout my life I have stared at landscapes – especially drawn to neglected urban landscapes and the wilderness. Shaken free by the constant movement and vibrations of the train I was able to condense a sense of the light\, space\, pine tree forests and occasional box like buildings that would appear randomly along the journey. In Pine Tree with Boxes\, I am probably the little light green square in the middle of the tree. \nAs is the case with all of my work\, I recognize in this painting a connection to my childhood that feels timeless – though the images may be disturbing they are beautiful to me. I would come home from school\, which I disliked\, and walk along the railroad tracks beside our house in Springfield\, Massachusetts where I grew up. There were no adults\, the tracks went on and on\, the sand was everywhere and there were red scrub pine trees which I loved and would sit in for long periods of time. I sang to the birds and they answered me. \n \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				Vancouver Boatyard  (2020) Watercolor\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				Flying Canoe (2020)  Watercolor 10″ x 14″\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				TRANSITIONS Series\n			 \n				\n				\n				Painted in 2020-2021 during the years of Covid19\, these paintings are about transition – into winter and solitude. They are inspired by the snow on the Vermont landscape\, as well as a chronicle of my move from an urban environment to a rural one – from Red Hook\, Brooklyn to Brattleboro\,VT. I spent this time studying the snow over the fields and forests of Vermont and adjusting to a rural environment from an urban one. After growing up in New England\, I lived in the New York City area for 40 years\,  and then relocated again to Brattleboro\,VT . I loved New York\, where I’d found a community of artists and a career as an Arts Therapist. I worked as a social worker using the arts at South Beach Psychiatric Center on Staten Island\, NYC.\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				Transition #1 (2020) Oil 24″ x 24″\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				Transition #2 (2020) Oil 36″ x 36″\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				RED HOOK (BROOKLYN) IN GRAY Series\n			 \n				\n				\n				I painted these paintings from 1996-2009 while living in Red Hook\, Brooklyn \, which was an abandoned urban environment near the sea 20 and minutes from NYC. In the winter the warehouses\, water towers\, backyards\, granary and bridges were gray\, stark and monumental with fog and snow. The effect I try to achieve is one of a mysterious space.\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				Red Hook Gray #1 (1996) Watercolor 18″ x 24″\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				Red Hook Gray #2 (2000) Watercolor  18″x24″
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