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Artist Statement:
Inventing the environment and
costuming the characters and
making them interact is not so
different than directing a
theatre production. The people
in the pictures are not me but
I know them and I live through
them in places I can never
physically visit and
situations that can never
be....
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Artist Exhibitions:
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Artist Galleries:
Wednesday December 3rd-
Sunday December 7th
Taller Duende Art Center
First Annual “ArtVoices”
Magazine group exhibition
Opening Reception Dec. 4th
7pm-11pm
2312 North Miami Ave. Miami,
Fl 33127
During New Orleans Prospect 1
Biennial Art Exhibition
Saturday November 8th-
December 5th 2008
I will be joining fellow New
Orleans ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Olivia Hill Biography:
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Age
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23
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
When I am not painting I work in Art and costume for motion picture and design and fabricate clothing. |
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Art Nouveau - (1880 - 1910)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Gustav Klimt
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I was born in Hindsdale, Illinois in 1985 and when I was three years old we packed up and moved to Los Angeles. As far as I can remember I came into the world as an artist. This may sound like a bold statement but I don't mean that I was, by any means, making good art straight out of the womb, I just mean that I cannot recall any time in my life when I performed a task, mundane or profound, where I did not perform it with the intention of leaving some mark of beauty and contributing to something greater. To me, this is the artist's thought process. What I mean is, there was, of course, a time before I decided that I wanted art to be my career when I was not so prolific. I went for months, sometimes, without making a painting or drawing or anything that my parents could display on the refrigerator or turn into a christmas card but I didn't feel that my life was void of art. I included the same creative process in the way I dressed myself for school or cooked scrambled eggs that I would have in something that could be more widely agreed upon as art.
No matter how much I felt like I was making art everyday by having daydreams or trying new hairstyles, I was fortunate enough to be the daughter of two artistic parents who strongly encouraged me to invest my talents in something tangible that the public could understand. After winning many children's art contests and demonstrating a love for drawing in gradeschool I began taking art lessons and did my first oil painting when I was nine. Throughout childhood I remember always having a project going. One week I would be painting, the next week I would write a story, then I would get tired of that and I'd sew clothes for my dolls and for myself or I'd get really into practicing my violin. When I came of highschool age I was accepted into the L.A. County High School for the Arts where I was part of the visual arts program and it was there that I learned that artists could be of some use in the professional world if they were savvy enough. I knew I was destined to make art my career because I wasn't much good at math or interested in realestate or law or anything too serious. So, I went on to getting my BFA in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute.
While I was in San Francisco I became friends with film students at our rival art school, the Academy of Art, and I developed an interest in filmmaking. Student filmmakers began asking me to contribute my knowledge of design to there projects as the production designer and costume designer. I loved this and enjoyed working collaboratively in contrast to the soloist activity of painting. After graduating in 2006 I spent another six months in San Francisco during which I worked my first paid position as the production designer for an indie film entitled "Friends and Lovers." Shortly after that my boyfriend and I decided that it was time to have an adventure and try living in another part of the country so we moved to uptown New Orleans in September 2007. New Orleans has proved hold many opportunities for both of us and I now make a living selling art, taking commissions and working art and wardrobe department for local film and television productions.
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