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I'm Olivia.

My art is not simply painting, but diaries and portraits. As an artist, I am a product of my surroundings, and with my art I want to discuss how I experience society around me; the people of my generation and the technological world. The dynamics of society, interpersonal relationships such as friends, lovers, strangers, and the complex natures of these relationships. Human psychology; the way we cultivate different relationships and our feelings towards others, interests me because of its ephemeral and essentially invisible nature, yet it is palpable and experienced by all.

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So, through my art I try to capture this phenomena in paintings with color, composition and form. My paintings express through pictorial space a psychological feeling, and human dynamics rather than a concrete place in time, they reflect human dynamics: crossovers of love and hate, love and lust, inclusion and exclusion.​ They beg the viewer to fill in blanks that are intentionally left, to finish the painting the viewer must insert themselves. Psychological paintings that depict emotions with color, and feeling with the motion of paint. It attempts to call upon memory of feeling that is never fully complete, but is vibrant with remembered emotion. I try to make my art in a way that viewers can relate to, through emotion. My main concern is color, using color to show emotion and connect with the viewer, color to inform meaning. I paint to convey feeling, and whatever form manifests the feeling is the form that comes into being. I paint not what I see in literal existence, but how I experience existence, and my feelings about the society that I live in.

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Everyone in society can understand interpersonal dynamics, it's a common thread that spans through all humans: isolation, love, closeness in a group and ostracization. I use what I see around me to create meaning, I see the way technology affects relationships, platonic and romantic, social interactions that lack depth of connection. This manifests in my work with figures who are on the same picture plane, but in reality are worlds apart. We put out images, edited and cropped, for the world to view the specific parts of ourselves we want to highlight. Therefore, with my art, I try to draw this curtain, shine the light on these absurdities and paint with the most uncut realism. I paint not with traditional realism, but they are realistic in an emotional and psychological sense.

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