I make woven works using a variety of looms to produce complex patterned cloth and abstract tapestries. I hand- render sculptural forms using basketry materials and techniques. I spin raw wool into yarn and I hand-dye materials used in all my work. I also maintain a drawing practice in relation to my sculptural practice that acts as a method of experimentation of form, abstraction and positive and negative space. 

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Within the past several years, I have focused my practice on the study of  Jewish texts with a queer feminist lens. Through this study, I create art inspired by Jewish ideas about mysticism, creation, cosmology and divinity. I find myself returning to abstraction rather than representation as a method to explore the mysterious and the unknown within Jewish thought. This process re-asserts living symbols within these texts and continues lineages of meaning making within Jewish traditions that are constantly transforming. I am interested in exploring the jewish art historical tradition of linking intricacy and beauty to the infinite. 

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Hypersurface of the Present will open 1.24.25 at Roots and Culture

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Hypersurface of the Present is an exhibition of over 20 new works that encompass a cross-disciplinary offering of sculpture, wall pieces and installation through processes of fiber art (weaving, natural dyeing, spinning yarn, wax resist), drawing, glass and metalwork. Although some pieces were conceptualized between 2022-2024, almost all of the work was produced during 2024 and early 2025. For the past several years, Olive’s work has been grounded in the study of Jewish ideas and texts related to mysticism, creation, cosmology and divinity. These investigative threads are continued in this exhibition in many ways (both known and unknown to the artist at the time of this writing), particularly as it relates to the unfolding of the singular as part of a multiplicitous whole.

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