BIO
Olea Nova is a visual artist and composer of abstract non-objective works that are concerned with space, movement and atmospheres.
To create evolving experiences, Olea explores her sense of non-objective form. Her dynamic and dramatic compositions stem from extended experimentation and improvisation with color and form.
Olea's intent for each work is to create emotional journeys through finding harmony in noise. Her large scale painterly-drawings and sound works focus on the human perception through the interaction of forms and sequences of painterly or sound events.
Olea works in Chicago. Her studio space is filled with natural light, street and mechanical noises all of which help her focus on the process of transforming her artistic research, feelings, sensations and emotions into painted images on canvas and experimental sound works.
Links
2020 "Art and Science," The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmR2JACP64c
2019 The Helen Coburn Meier & Tim Meier Achievement Award.
2019 James Pollard. "Russian visual artist brings abstract exhibit to Evanston." The Daily Northwestern.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/
2019 "Olea Nova: Air." April 13 - May 24, 2019, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
https://www.evanstonartcenter.org
2018 Angie Glaser. Interview. “Piercing Conflict” Captures The Pain and Disruption of Migraine. https://migraineagain.com/disruption-of-migraine-piercing-conflict/
2016 Nature, Performing “Dystopia,” Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, IL https://youtu.be/xIPbZ4edC7E
2014 Olea Nova – Spontaneous Dialogue | The COMP Magazine
2013 MoMA PopRally, Abstract Currents: An Interactive Video Event in conjunction with the exhibitions Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925, New York, NY https://vimeo.com/62528658
International Women Associates (IWA), Chicago, IL. Presentation: “Russian Icon Painting Revisited.” History of Russian painting from medieval icon to abstraction. March 2013 http://novamediaweb.com/?p=293
2010 "Summer Sounds: One Minute Film Festival," Screening video: "The New Beginning", The Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Wing, Chicago, IL
Coalesse, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL NeoCon 2010
2003 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 24th Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. Session title: Art as Activism in Women’s Studies. Presenting “Silent Witness Project” completed at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. June 2003
2002 "Piercing Conflict," solo exhibition at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL http://migraineartwork.com/
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