Suggestion of a House Slipper, The Refusal to get Dressed, Spending a Season Dreaming of Sunlight only to Prefer it Dark

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The other part of the title, The Refusal to get Dressed, Spending a Season Dreaming of Sunlight only to Prefer it Dark, is in line with the way I title most of my other works, in what you refer to as a more poetic way. Where this comes from is a mixture of research I had been doing and how I talk to myself about the work. These kind of titles begin to get a bit more evocative and associative —a guide for a certain kind of affect within the work.
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Olivia Erlanger lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Squig on the Horizon at Appendix Project Space (Portland, Ore.) Olivia Erlanger and Wyatt Niehaus at H. Klum Fine Art (Portland, Ore.), Songs on Conceptual Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA) and Missed Connections at PDX Contemporary (Portland, Ore.). Erlanger was a Spring 2013 Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center (Snowmass, Colorado). In May, she organized Publication Studio’s micro residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology (New York, NY). Upcoming projects include a solo presentation with Important Projects (Oakland, CA) and Fluxia (Milan, Italy).
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The world Olivia Erlanger creates through her installations and photography feels like a parallel universe. It takes many of the core tenants of the familiar, but inverts them, so we stumble. Something is different. Something has changed.

In the installation ‘Missed Connections’ Erlanger explores the subtleties of human interaction, the briefest of moments preserved. Ten denim caps with the slogan “Though I like it my name is not Aldous” on the brim, alongside a pair of resin legs wearing sneakers and a Vellum poem based on a post found on Craigslist Missed Connections. The poem describes ‘the smell of warm bodies, knee socks on gals’ but we are confronted with a plastic model of humanity, a disembodied pair of legs. It is at once uniquely human but lacking a human essence and quality.

Similarly in ‘Rainbow Shift’ a rainbow light refraction is printed on steel: the elusive warmth and beauty of sun shifting through glass captured and preserved on steel. An effervescent moment captured and recreated.

Erlanger takes things close to us: memories, impressions, clothing and bedrooms and preserves them, recreating them with unfamiliar materials. Memories become visible, private moments public, a perfect balance of light and dark.
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An eclectic, but balanced group show includes sculpture, video, painting and music. Ned Siegels work, which never lacks color, embraces many media, including found object sculpture, collage, and painting. Elana Webb’s drawings and paintings are formally interested in line, texture and color. Olivia Erlanger’s new work features video and sculpture, exploring issues of form over time. And Kwesi Soleau-Acquaah will be installing a performance space that utilizes audio, visual and aural aspects. The theme for the show is based upon the archetype of the trickster. All artists will be exploring ideas of illusion, transformation, identity and fragmentation.