Olan Quattro
As our lives and personal records become increasingly digital, paper has devolved into a material of memory. All those handwritten letters, printed photographs, and scribbled journals are remnants of a quickly disappearing analog world. As a collage artist in a digital world, my work is informed by the intersection of memory, myth and fragmentation. My layered compositions subvert symbols of early Americana in order to illustrate the complexity of our contemporary world.
I am a third-generation artist. My materials are culled from old family letters, photographs, books and catalogues of early American art. My family inheritance was the paper trails left behind from generations. These forgotten papers are my palette. I repurpose these papers, creating new contexts and stories.
We live in a rapidly changing and uncertain world. Collage is a necessary way for me to untangle these complications and to search for some kind of beauty in the chaos. Collage is how I make sense of the world.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
2022 Coconut Grove Arts
2022 Superfine Art Fair
2020 "From My Eyes" R. Cline Arts, online, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Coconut Grove Arts Festival
2020 Beaux Arts Festival, 1st Prize Mixed Media
2019 Aqua Art Fair, Art Miami, Miami
2019 Fountainhead Residency Open Studio, Miami
2018 Superfine Art Fair, DC
2018 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
2017 State of the Arts Gallery, Sarasota
2016 State of the Arts Gallery, Sarasota
2015 JanKossen Gallery, "Fresh", group show, New York
2014 Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
2014 "Bal Masque" SRQ Magazine feature artist, Sarasota Opera
2013 "Fashion Issue" Solo Show, Atelier Gallery, Charleston, SC
2013 "Charleston Green" Solo show, Art Mag Featured Artist
2012 "Florida Artists" Group show, Florida Museum of Women Artists, Deland, FL
2008 "Fairy Tales" Solo show, Thomas Eades Fine Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2007 "Shrine Show", group show, Owings Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 "Three Paper Artists", group show, City Hall Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2005 "Artists in our Economy" group show, Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science, Tallahassee, FL
2004 Nomads Gallery, "Small Works" "Here Comes the Men", solo shows, Tallahassee, FL
2004 Artemis Gallery, "Automatism" two-person show, Seattle, WA
2003 Nomads Gallery "Women Icons A-Z", solo show, Tallahassee, FL
2003 FSU Museum of Fine Arts, "Combined Talent", group show, Tallahassee, FL
2002 Gadsden Art Center, "Art in Gadsden", group show, Quincy, FL
SELECTED AWARDS and PUBLICATIONS
2014 2010
Purchase Award, Gasparilla Festival Specs Magazine, Winter Park, FL
SRQ Magazine, Feature Artist, Sarasota, FL 2009
2013 Gibsontown Guitar Artist, Orlando, FL Award of Distinction, Lemoyne Art Festival 2007
2011 Award of Distinction, Lemoyne Art Festival
SRQ Magazine
Art Mag, Charleston, SC
Skirt Magazine, Charleston, SC,
Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC
EDUCATION
2006 1996
MA Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL BA, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
1997 1994
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Atelier Four Winds, Aureille, France