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Email PageClimbing the Giant
September 9, 2006- October 14, 2006
Reception: September 9, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
ACA Galleries
529 W 20th St Irene Hardwicke Olivieri Beloved and bewildered (2006) |  Irene Hardwicke Olivieri Climbing the giant (2006) |  Irene Hardwicke Olivieri No small agony (2006) |
 Irene Hardwicke Olivieri Ten thousand kisses (2006) |
In the painting Like milk for a kitten somber advice is given about how to avoid being eaten by a cougar or attacked by various other animals while hiking out in the wilderness.
Some paintings are shouts of outrage over the senseless abuse of our environment and its beautiful creatures. In Nature’s cleanup crew she expresses her solution for the leaders of our country who have been irresponsible in their policies; the ravens, vultures and necrophorous beetles make a meal of them.
The central figure in How dare you asks that question of the tiny hunters laying in their coffins as she intently protects the alluring animals with her braided embrace.
The painting, Beloved and bewildered tells the story of her niece who was kidnapped as a child and 15 years later reunited with her family.
In Ten thousand kisses, the artist explains why she is a good wife because of all the non-traditional activities (raven feeding, skull collecting, caterpillar rearing), which she joyfully shares, with her husband.
Born in Texas, she was deeply influenced by her travels in Central and South America. She studied art in Mexico and received her BFA from the University of Texas, Austin. While attending New York University she worked as a gardener and lecturer at the Cloisters. Soon after she worked at the New York Botanical Garden making drawings of neo tropical palms.
She currently lives off grid in a solar powered house in the high desert of central Oregon sharing the land with badgers, bobcats, bushy tailed woodrats, black tailed jackrabbits, Jerusalem crickets, ravens, western fence lizards, pygmy horned toads, mountain lions, mule deer and magpies, many of which find themselves in her paintings.
Her artwork is included in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, where she was the subject of a solo exhibition in 2004.
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Opening reception: Saturday, September 9, 3-6 pm
Gallery Talk with the Artist, Saturday, September 16, 2-4 pm
529 Arts Building Open House: Thursday, September 21, 6-8 pm
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