- Oliver Arms
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Oliver Arms (born 1970) is an American painter based in Los Angeles.
Arms is primarily known for his labor intensive oil paintings which are created by repeatedly building up then sanding down multiple layers of oil paint on canvas over the course of many months.
He held his first solo exhibition at Western Project in Los Angeles in 2005,[1] following with a show at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York in 2007.[2]
David Pagel, in his Los Angeles Times review for Arms's third exhibition in 2008 at Western Project, states Arms's work is an "eloquent essay on the most elemental aspects of the organic materiality of oil paint. Simultaneously fluid, crusty and ethereal, his primal pictures have one foot firmly planted in the primordial ooze and the other in the cultivated world of modernist abstraction. It's a feat that balances furious energy and strange serenity."[3]
Arms claims his work deals with information as pollutant and the inability of society to parlay information with considered discernment. In an interview with Price Latimer Agah in 2009, Arms says his work is about "eradicating the presence of me as an artist, and what I’m left with is an inundation because of so many layers sanded down, an inundation that in some pale fashion tries to compete, in terms of information overload, back to the thing that stimulated it."[4]
Most recently Arms presented his paintings in a solo exhibition at Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe in New York in 2010.[5]
References
- ^ "Dramatic in any language". Los Angeles Times. 1989-11-23. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/08/entertainment/et-galleries8/2. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ http://www.cowlesgallery.com/archive/pressreleases/Arms07pr.pdf
- ^ "Karen Liebowitz Artist In La | Realism, with a dose of whimsy". Los Angeles Times. 2008-01-11. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/11/entertainment/et-galleries11/2. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "Price Latimer Agah". Pricelatimer.com. http://pricelatimer.com/the-contributing-editor/. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "Exhibitions - Oliver Arms - Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe". Amy-nyc.com. 2010-03-06. http://www.amy-nyc.com/exhibitions/oliver-arms/. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
External links
Categories:- Artist stubs
- American painters
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Abstract painters
- People from Los Angeles, California
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