Big Red
By Christine Olmstead | 2021, Acrylic and 24k gold leaf on canvas
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About the Artist:
Abstract artist Christine Olmstead uses movement, light, and color to create “internal landscapes” that convey stories, moods, and energy. Olmstead often gilds her work with light-reflecting gold leaf as a symbolic reminder of the ability to alchemize any inner experience into light, beauty, and peacefulness. Olmstead’s painting practice is informed by meditation, music, and the perceptual phenomenon of synesthesia. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and specializes in commercial and residential commissions. In addition to her full–time studio practice in Northern Virginia, Olmstead contributes to the podcast The SynPod, which she co-created, dedicated to synesthesia.
All artworks at the Pierce are by local women artists and sourced by Latela Curatorial, a full service art advisory studio based in Washington DC.
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Why focus on local, women-identifying artists?
“Today, in the year 2021, women artists’ sales still make up only 2% of the global market. Despite highly visible efforts to counter the absence of women artists in international museum collections, very little action has been directed toward this jarring discrepancy in emerging to established women artists’ primary survival mechanism: the creative economy.
Further, DC, Maryland, and Virginia artists are working in a deeply engaged local art world that is at the red-hot center of the United States’ political landscape, and yet their voices are largely dismissed by the international art community and press.
The Pierce’s distinctive decision to collect only artwork by women artists who are also local - living, creating and exhibiting in its vicinity - sets a precedent for what it really means to support the arts.”
- Marta Staudinger, Latela Curatorial Director