Emilia Olsen

Arts + Leisure is thrilled to announce There Is Another Sky, the debut exhibition of recent paintings by Emilia Olsen. Depicting voluptuous female figures in a range of settings, particularly coils of snakes and verdant layers of plants and flowers, Olsen’s work presents a tour-de-force of expressive technique and painterly flourish. Rendered in viscous swaths of oil paint manipulated with a variety of mediums, her fleshy figures are both organic yet aggressively assertive of their materiality. In Flowers for Myself and Marigolds, Olsen pushes the dynamics of her practice to its limits, crafting sculptural, three-dimensional forms from globs of impasto paint; hovering between painting and sculpture, they confront our understanding of the interplay of simulation and simulacra in the image.