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DISGUISE THE LIMIT
— DISGUISE THE LIMIT, a group show curated by John Yau — fifteen artists’ unique interpretations of poetry through visual art are brought to catalyzing effect, on view at ART CAKE (Gallery B). Many thanks to YCS founder, Michael David, and artist Astrid Dick, who have brought this collaboration to a catalyzing effect on view in Art Cake’s Gallery B. Opening September 7, from 4-8 pm. September 7 – September 28, 2025.
M. David & Co. is pleased to present Drawing In, Drawing Out (Gallery A), a group exhibition of works by Thornton Dial, Steve DiBenedetto, Joanne Greenbaum, Harriet Korman, Joshua Neustein, Thomas Nozkowski, David Reed, Michelle Segre, and Gary Stephan. Curated by John Yau at Art Cake
In Tandum ( in Gallery B), M. David & Co. is pleased to presentworks by Lynn Basa, Kate Brown, Robin Dintiman, Carrie Johnson, Eric Laverty, Jennifer Mawby, Zoë Elena Moldenhauer, M. Pettee Olsen, Patricia Tewes Richards, Sam Shaffer, Scott Sherman, Robert Solomon, Maya Strauss, Ali Vaughan, and Lindy Wood. Disguise the Limit exhibition, A Selection of Works from John Yau’s Symposia! Curated by John Yau, this group exhibition brings together fifteen artists, following an intensive studio and virtual-based program with esteemed poet and art writer, John Yau.
September 7 – September 28, 2025 Opening reception: Sunday, September 7, 4-8 pmArt Cake: 214 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Hours: Friday & Saturday, 1-6 pm and by appointment
Tandem exhibitions curated by John Yau at ART CAKE
Corporate Collection
Falling Away, 2024, synthetic polymer and mica-based paint on canvas, 60 x 144 ” installed as part of a corporate collection, New York, New York.
M. Pettee Olsen embraces luminous surfaces, mark-making vitality, and diverse painting methods to address the changeable nature of perception and subvert absolutist narratives through color and light.
— Artforum
Corporate Collection
Yellow Slip (with Value Scale), installed as part of a corporate collection, New York, New York
M PETTEE OLSEN
SHIFT
April 13- May 4, 2024
Opening April 13, 5-7
Artist talk Sunday April 14, 3-4
Garrison Art Center
Garrison Art Center | 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 10524 | info@garrisonartcenter.org | Tel: 845.424.3960
SHIFT, Garrison Art Center, The 60th Anniversary
SHIFT — Paintings by M. Pettee Olsen, a solo exhibition featuring large paintings of the artist’s wide-ranging visual vocabulary. Curated by Meg Hitchcock with exhibition design by Kate Cahill. SHIFT, April 13 — May 5, 2024, Garrison Art Center, 23 Garrison Landing, Garrison, New York. Galley Talk, April 14, 2024
Coral Door | 15 8th Avenue, West Village, NYC 10014 |
ELEMENTAL FICTIONS
ELEMENTAL FICTIONS, Curated by Jessica Nissen and Lowell Boyers. Artists include: Rene Bouchard, Kevin Pyle, Jessica Nissen, Karen Margolis, M Pettee Olsen, Jane Fine, Jeff Quinn, Samantha Keely Smith, and Lowell Boyers. THE CORAL DOOR, 15 8th Ave, West Village, NYC 10014
THINGLY AFFINITIES
— Rethinking Aesthetic Form for a Posthumanist Future – THINGLY AFFINITIES online symposium directed by Taney Roniger, New York, New York, was an invitational event exploring the ways artists are breaking new ground in form and content, while “de-centering the human.” December 4-13, 2020
… Pettee Olsen works with refraction, dissimilar actions and strategies, as well as color bars and floaters that partake of boundlessness, and sensation. With reconfiguring planes and light-reflective media, the paintings resist any coherent reading and are insistently perceptually interactive…
—Stephanie Grilli, art historian, PhD Yale
WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION
Opening Friday, June 14th, 6-9
June 14 – July 27, 2019
William Havu Gallery
William Havu Gallery | 1040 Cherokee Street, Denver, CO 80204 |
WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION
— WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION, The William Havu Gallery, one of Denver’s oldest and most well-known contemporary galleries, represents a long list of established and emerging artists. Women in Abstraction features works from six highly acclaimed artists. This group show includes: Monroe Hodder, Amy Metier, Lola Montejo, M. Pettee Olsen, Laura Wait, and Sheryl Zacharia
CO ABSTRACT +10, an Invitational curated by Collin Parson, THE ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Arvada, Colorado. September 12 – November 17, 2019 (pictured at the entrance (left) is a permanent installation wall by Vito Acconci. (Right) M Pettee Olsen was among the 36 artists in this survey that filled the museum.
…polymer-layered canvases that are painted in broadly brushed swaths of organic tangles, drips and markings she calls “edits.”
The show also reveals Goodwin’s interest in contemporary abstraction… Among the artists in this group are Margaret Pettee Olsen…
—Michael Paglia, WestWord review
RELAY — Paintings by M Pettee Olsen
Curated by Stephanie Grilli
Opening November 1, 6-9
Novemeber 1 – November 30, 2019
808 PROJECTS
808 Projects | 808 Sante Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204 |
RELAY — Paintings by Margaret Pettee Olsen
RELAY — Paintings by Margaret Pettee Olsen, curated by art historian Stephanie Grilli, Yale PhD, was well received by the press. 808 Projects, now permanently closed, was an independent curator-run Gallery in downtown Denver, Colorado.
Her gestures recall the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism, but she
works with refraction, dissimilar actions and strategies, as well color bars and floaters that partake of boundlessness, and sensation. With reconfiguring planes and light-reflective media, the paintings resist any coherent reading and are insistently perceptually interactive.
—Stephanie Grilli, Art historian and curator PhD Yale
I am delighted to be included in renowned artist Allan McCollum’s project 1001 MODERN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW, a tongue-in-cheek list of ‘Who’s Who in the Art World.’ McCollum includes his name, hiding his ‘signature’ in plain sight. What do the other thousand artists have in common?
