Patti OLEON
Shifting Ground
October 28, 2021 - January 15, 2022
Reception for the artist Thursday, October 28, 2021, 5:30-8pm. Proof of vaccine required.
Summary
Patti Oleon works from photos she takes in public spaces (lobbies, etc) contrived to look habitable, but empty of human presence. She digitally manipulates her photographs, creating a composite image that she then makes the painting from. Her paintings are faithful renditions of that final worked image, painted in a traditional manner in oil, but clearly derived from a camera. Oleon is interested in presenting realistically rendered spaces while simultaneously creating and undermining expectations of what these environments are. She achieves this by warping perspective and shifting perceptions through the utilization of overlays of digitally altered renditions of the same scene, and by the dramatic use of light to illuminate sections of the space. The results blur the viewer’s comprehension of the relationships within the space. Oleon's successive reprocessing and layering of the original setting culminates in her paintings presenting what appears to be factual, but which is in fact fictional and confounding. The paintings are an amalgam of things, a real place dislocated in time and space, realistically rendered but on the verge of abstraction.
Modernism is proud to present its eighth one-person exhibition of paintings by Patti OLEON. Oleon received both her B.A. and M.F.A from UCLA, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Guggenheim Foundation, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (twice), the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, Fulbright/DAAD Fellowship, Ford Foundation Grant, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant.
Press
Patti OLEON
Press Release: Patti Oleon - Somewhere Else (2018)
2018-11-08
Patti OLEON
Voyage Houston Interview with Patti Oleon
2018-08-01
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Wall Street International: Patti Oleon
2018-01-30
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USA Art News: Patti Oleon
2018-01-22
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ArtScene Preview: Patti Oleon
2018-01-12
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Visual Art Source: Patti Oleon
2017-03-31
Patti OLEON
Review: Arts & Culture Texas
2014-12-03
Patti OLEON
Review: New American Paintings
2014-09-01
Patti OLEON
Highlight: Art LTD
2012-05-01
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Review: Artslant
2010-04-26
