DVAA Member since 2023

Olivia Guarnieri

WEBSITE: oliviaguarnieri.myportfolio.com

About:

Olivia Guarnieri is a visual artist who received a BA from Vassar College in 2020, where she studied English, media studies, and studio art, and presented a senior thesis on object-oriented ontology. Since living in Philadelphia after graduating, Olivia has shown work in various gallery spaces including Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Creative York (York, PA), CICA (Gimpo, KOR), dodomu gallery (virtual), and The Rest Gallery (Ithaca, NY). In 2023, she attended a residency at Arts Letters & Numbers, and completed a summer studio critique program at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Artist Statement:

With commonly found materials such as wood, paper, and cardboard, Olivia constructs visual “sentences” that incorporate grammatical structures and typographical symbols into non-word forms. Often occupying both a linguistic and a visual space, her constructions use a sparse, narrow language as a strategy to achieve qualities of secrecy, specificity, and uncertainty—all attributes that she finds become intensified by a heightened degree of restrictions and a lack of given information.