Reviews

"Hers is an art of heroic ambitions and unassuming means, rigorous methodology and throwaway improvisation. Ms. Olivier knows that being smart and fooling around aren't mutually exclusive. And she knows that art isn't anything unless it embraces paradox."
-Mario Naves, The New York Observer, November 9, 2005
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"...Ms. Olivier creates sensuous surfaces that simulatenously reveal and mask the components of the overall patterns and underlying tones."
-Helen A. Harrison, New York Times, September 7, 2003
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The recent paintings on panel... are her strongest work to date. Two of them... are among the most beautiful abstractions I've seen by a contemporary painter. Hard-headed yet flexible, smart and funky, Ms. Olivier is a formalist who likes to have fun–and her fun is serious business.
-Mario Naves, The New York Observer, December 16, 2002
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"A sense of loose, dripping pigment makes Nancy Olivier's "Interior Motive" the show's most overtly assertive work."
-Phyllis Braff, New York Times, December 12, 1999
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The bold pencil lines in this piece recall Jackson Pollock's seminal drawings from the late '40s, crowded with strange configurations.
-Ronny Cohen, Artforum, December 1993
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"...it's interesting to see an abstract artist experimenting with related but distinct possibilities."
-Jed Perl, Art & Antiques, October 1991
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