Supper for the spotted skunk
35 x 32 inches
Oil on panel
One hundred bright smiles
72 x 48 inches
Oil on clayboard
Some kind of wilderness
57 x 57 inches
Oil on panel
Breakfast in the forest
16 x 20 inches
Oil on clayboard
Coaxing a better me
30 x 20 inches
Oil on vintage metal top
Tsunami
12.5 x 36 inches
Oil on wood
Family secrets too heavy to fly
20 x 36 inches
Oil on wood
My favorite paintbrush
30 x 36 inches
Oil on linen
Putting forth your paws
29 x 29 inches
Oil on wood
Ravenous
32 x 32 inches
Oil on ponderosa pine
Not a minute too soon
39 x 24 inches
Oil on canvas
Making your appearance
8 x 10 inches
Oil on clayboard
Little house in my heart
35 x 14 inches
Oil on rising wood bowl
Unexpected tide
29 x 24 inches
Oil on canva
Satisfaction
24 x 15 inches
Oil on wood
Four braids and a squirrel
23 x 12 inches
bones in a rising wood bowl
Paleocat
38 x 14 inches
Bones in a rising wood bowl
Encantada
29.5 x 29.5 inches
Bones and porcupine quills on copper tray
Never going back
12 x 10 inches
Mineral pigments on porcelain
Head to tail
14.5 x 12 inches
Mineral pigments on porcelain
Restoration
17 x 14 inches
Watercolor on paper
A certain panic
15.5 x 18.5 inches
watercolor on paper
Outshining my demons
14 x 17 inches
Watercolor and ink on paper
Retreat
17 x 14 inches
Watercolor on paper
The obliterator
14.5 x 17.5 inches
Watercolor on paper
You have big wings
why aren’t you flying?
15 x 21 inches
Watercolor/ink on paper
What makes you fly?
8 x 11 inches
Watercolor and ink on paper
Irene Hardiwicke Olivieri
Bio Info
General:
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri was born and raised in southern Texas. After living in Latin America and New York, she has lived for the past ten years in a solar powered house in the high desert of Oregon, where she raises moths, water lilies, beetles and succulents. Irene spends her time painting, exploring the wilderness and working to protect wildlife.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 A Collection for Zopilote, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Breakfast in the Forest, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Some Kind of Wilderness, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
2006 Climbing the Giant, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
2005 Light Seeking Eyes, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 New/Now, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2003 Thousand Acre Swamp, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Paintings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Love Feathers Fur, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1999 Pleasure Gardens, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 To Have and to Hold, Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Paintings, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 New Paintings, Bridges and Bodell Gallery, New York, NY
1992 White Room, White Columns, New York, NY
1983 New Paintings, Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 ArtExpo SD, Wonderbread Factory, San Diego, CA
2012 Reflections from a Looking Glass, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lucid Dreams, Noel Baza Fine Art, San Diego, CA
2011 Women Artists at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,
Connecticut
Lucid Dreams, Noel Baza Fine Art, San Diego, CA
Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas, Travelling exhibition to venues throughout
the U.S.
Fragments: Modern & Contemporary Collage, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Humanimal, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Arts, Portsmouth, NH
Bare, Naked and Nude, Noel Baza Fine Art, India Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
Survey Select: Narrative Paintings, The Wonderbread Factory, San Diego, CA
Sea Turtle Restoration Project, San Francisco, CA
2009 Women Forward, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
The Nature of Words, COCC, Bend, OR
2008 Voices of Dissonance: A Survey of Political Art 1930-2008, ACA Galleries, New
York, NY
Manifest Hope Gallery, Democratic National Convention, Denver CO.
ACA Gallery Celebrates the Earth, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
2007 The Feminist Figure, The Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Women’s Work, Tabla Rasa, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Hybrids, Wave Hill, New York, NY
2002 Paperworks, Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT
2001 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, The Gold Building, Hartford, CT
2000 Quirky, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Con-text, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
Human Nature, Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
Washington: Pride of Place, Gunn Memorial Museum, Washington, CT
1998 Wishful Thinking, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, NY
18 x 18, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1997 In the Image of Woman, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Secret Languages, Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA
White Columns, New York, NY
Education
1985 New York University, New York, NY, MA
1983 University of Texas, Austin, TX, BFA
1978 Insituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1977 Escola das Artes Visuais, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Selected Bibliography
2014 Amons, Susan Spring: A Journal of Archetype & Culture Volume 91
Orion Magazine Summer
Yerman, Marcia Huffington Post
Flycatcher Journal
Combustus Magazine
Kenoyer, Kelly Envision Environmental Journalism
2013 Abrahams, Megan Whitehot Magazine
Brown, Betty Ann Artillery Magazine
Davies, Stacy Visual Art Source
Bush, Bill Huffington Post: This Art Week LA
2012 Patrick, Renee, Cascade Arts & Entertainment, March
2010 Molarsky, Mona, Artnews, Summer 2010
Hattam, Meredith, Visual Arts: A Pop Surrealist Dream at Survey Select
KPBS San Diego, July 14, 2010
2009 Pierce, Eleanor, Complex Imagery, Bend Bulletin, October 30, 2009
RGV Magazine, September
Art for Obama, edited by Shepard Fairey and Jennifer Gross
2007 Little, Carl, Art in America, April 2007
Leggio, Gail, A Reviving Iconography: Christina Verago and Irene Hardwicke
Olivieri,
American Art Quarterly, Winter 2007
2006 Oxford American, Spring 2006
May, Caryn, What the Owl Left Behind: Off the Grid with Irene Hardwicke Olivieri,
The Source Weekly, Oct 5 2006
Turner, Billye, Animal Affairs.Spring2006
2005 Urger, Phillip. Time Out Chicago, Issue #17 June 23, 2005
Camper, Fred, The Chicago Reader, July 1, 2005
Lieber, Katherine Rook, Artscope.net, July 29, 2005
2004 Streitfeld, L.P., The Advocate/Greenwich Times, May 2, 2004
Larcen, Donna, The Hartford Courant, March 25, 2004
Banach, Kari, The Herald Press, March 28, 2004
2003 Myers, Holly, The Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2003
Venice Magazine, November 2003
2002 The Week Magazine, New York, NY, April 19-25
Zimmer, William, The New York Times, August 11, 2002
2001 Kino, Carol, Art in America, January 2001
2000 Schwabsky, Barry, Art & Text, November 2000-January 2001
The Book Los Angeles, Summer 2000
Goddard, Dan, The San Antonio Express News August 19
1998 Cotter, Holland, The New York Times March 13 and 20
Connally, Kevin, The New Yorker, February 16
Scobie, Ilka New York Arts Magazine, March
Bergen, Mica Cover magazine, Spring
1996 Chamberlain, Francis, The New York Times
Glowen Ron The Herald, (Seattle, WA) July
Melrod, George, Art and Antiques, April
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, March 30
Clark, Catherine, Juxtapoz, April
Recent Presentations
2014 The New Britain Museum of American Art New Britain, CT
Tin Pan Theater Earth Day presentation, Bend, OR
2011 The Creative Process, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 Temple of Understanding: Art, Spirituality & the Transformation of Consciousness into the Ecological Age(panel
discussion), ACA Gallery, New York, NY
Innovations & Origins, Oregon State University
Other Projects:
Irene’s paintings have appeared in the following films:
Lords of Dogtown, Blame it on Fidel, Twilight, Red Riding Hood, Vanilla Sky, Mad City, Two Days in the Valley, Thirteen, Plush and will be featured in the upcoming film Miss you Already.
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri’s idiosyncratic, curiously complex
paintings explore the subterranean aspects of life—love and
relationships, secrets and obsessions—all the while opening a
window to the mysterious workshop of nature. A Collection
for Zopilote presents a lively array of the artist’s work: new
paintings joining together with earlier work in a vibrant salon
style exhibition.
Having lived off the grid for the past ten years in the high
desert of Oregon embedded in nature, the artist will be
creating an installation capturing the essence of her western
working environment.