Lovie Olivia

has been a working artist even preceding graduation from the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston Texas. Determined to demonstrate her passion for creativity with ambitious certainty, she began exhibiting and competing in juried shows nationally showing paintings and sculptures in cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, and Atlanta and exhibited her first full body of works at HSPVA. Olivia continued her studies in art history, painting and industrial design at Houston Community College and developed an attraction for architectural history and its ornamental foundations. Over the next 10 years she proved her mastery in the arts of interior wall embellishments including trompe l’oeile, Venetian plaster applications, gold gilding, faux bois, murals and more. Working along side builders, architects and designers, she has adorned homes businesses and public spaces nationally. In 2005 Olivia threw in the trowel, and picked up the brush full time opting to create work that had a more intimate perspective and voice.

Self-proclaimed, autodidactic, Olivia uses her independent studies of art, cultures, music, literature and history to inspire her works. She’s fascinated by phenomena, coincidental, and collateral interactions of societies. She has recently exhibited at The Community Artist Collective (CAC), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Arthello Beck Gallery in Dallas, Project Row Houses and most recently, Lawndale Art Center. She opened 2010, with a collective show at the Lawndale Art Center entitled “Dare to go Further”. Two solo exhibitions entitled ‘Thrice Removed’ and ‘Inventing the Will’ are slated for 2010/11. With these series she’s using paintings, mixed-media and installation to explore family lineage, genealogy, sexual and racial identity.