Olivia Drusin
Bio: Olivia Drusin is a New York-based painter whose works describe the psychic structure of pedestrian encounters with both urban and domestic space, and how they relate to gender and visual perception. The paintings untangle a banal type of horror in various deadpan forms of thresholds and veiled moments of the quotidian. As reference pictures are flattened in paint, disrupting their legibility, the images transform into vehicles for exploring consciousness. Drusin received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, and has exhibited at Pablo’s Birthday, New York, International Objects, Brooklyn, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, Selenas Mountain, Queens, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, SARDINE, Brooklyn, and Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, among others. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently finishing her MFA at Columbia University.
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Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Here is a moment in time, rendered in paint, of an image projected on a surface from the cavernous mush of the mind. Here is an image of an object creating its own diaph- anous likeness, and here is a magic trick of the light. Here is where her attention drifts, darts and settles. Here is a tool to look at and scrutinize a dislocating scene. There is something about the absurdity of images and image making that I can’t quite look beyond. Nothing makes sense–it never has, and it never will. That nonsensical aberration is insidious, persistent; it lies in the periphery of vision, just out of reach.
Olivia Drusin
Specter, 2024
Oil on canvas
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Black Hole (I’ve Seen This All Before), 2024
Oil on canvas
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Olivia Drusin
Mirrored Scream, 2024
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
First Year Exhibition
Olivia Drusin
Tunnel of Love, 2023
Oil on Canvas
38" x 27" x 1.5"
Courtesy the artist
