Artist Statement: When I was a little girl, I loved to draw houses. Little houses like crooked teeth jutting from a crayoned line. I have a complicated relationship to the idea of home. There is a Welsh word, Hiraeth, which means a longing for a home that no longer exists, or may have never truly been. As a child, home was geography, not a specific structure. Home was the tides, the backwoods, the wild blueberry bushes and the curve of the dunes. At one point, as a teenager, everything I owned was in the back of a car, as I no longer had a physical home. But I always had a place. This series explores the relationship of memory and place, both geographical and emotional. It veers into the realm of dreams and fairy tales and imagines a topography of memory, what is visible and what lies beneath. Using family papers, photographs and letters as an underpainting, these memories are embedded in the landscape both literally and figuratively. This series is a love letter to the idea of finding a place, a home, in this wild and mysterious world. Artist Biography A third-generation artist, Olan Quattro grew up surrounded by art in the Central Coast of California and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Both places, which abound in natural beauty, gave her a love of nature that is deeply instilled in her work. Quattro studied art in France and Mexico, learning from art schools and residencies, completing her Masters in Art from Florida State University. Previous to moving to Hudson, NY, she has lived in Santa Fe, NM, Charleston, SC and Miami, FL. Her mixed media work combines gouache, acrylic, colored pencil and paper collage to create textures and to tell stories. She is drawn to themes of memory and our place in the environment. Her work is both whimsical and reflective. Quattro has exhibited throughout the United States and her work has found homes all over the world. Curriculum Vitae SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2024 "Understories", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2024 “Every Woman Biennial,” group, LaMaMa Galleria, NYCNY Times Daily News, TSL Gallery Hudson, NYGroup Show, Cape Cod Cultural Center, Yarmouth, MA2023 “Art Deli” Club Gallery, Miami, FL“Silver and Gold,” group, Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY​2022 “Miami Women Artists” Art to Save Lives, Miami, FLCoconut Grove Arts, Miami, FL“ Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL2020 “From My Eyes” R. Cline Arts, Las Vegas, NYCoconut Grove Arts, Miami, FL2019 Art Basel Miami, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FLFountainhead Residency Open Studio, Miami, FL2018 The Other Art Fair, Los Angles, CASuperfine Art Fair, Washington, DC​2016 Group Show, State of the Arts Gallery, Sarasota, FL2015 “Fresh” JanKossen Gallery, NYC2014 Group Show, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL2013 “Fashion Issue” Solo Show, Atelier Gallery, Charleston, SC​​​2012 “Florida Artists” group, Florida Museum of Women Artists, Deland, FL​2008 “Fairy Tales” solo, Thomas Eades Fine Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL​2007 “Shrine Show” group, Owings Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM​2005 “Small Works” solo, Nomads Gallery, Tallahassee, FL “Here Comes the Men”, solo, Nomads Gallery, Tallahassee, FL​2004 “Automatism” Artemis Gallery, Seattle, WA​ “Women Icons A-Z”, solo, Nomads Gallery, Tallahassee, FL​2003 “Combined Talent,” group, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL​2002 “Art in Gadsden,” group, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, FLSELECTED PROJECTS2024 NY Times Daily News Series, daily collage work focused on current events and headline news.Forthcoming Exhibition: TSL Gallery, Hudson, NY2018 Washington Post Daily News Series, 365 collages focused on the daily headline from the newspaper. Exhibition: “Reclaiming the News,” William Johnston Gallery, FSU, Tallahassee, FL2014 "Bal Masque" a collection of collage work commissioned using the magazine as material.Published feature in SRQ MagazineExhibition: Sarasota Opera House2013 Vogue Fashion Issue, a collage series created from the fashion magazine. Exhibition: “September Issue” presented by Art Mag on the Charleston Green.SELECTED AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS2023 1st Place Mixed Media, Coconut Grove Art Juried, Miami, FL 2020 “Olan Quattro: Coleccion ‘Antepasados Extranos” Element Magazine, Panama1st Place Mixed Media, Beaux Art Juried, the Lowe Museum of Art, Miami, FL2014 SRQ Magazine, Featured Artist, Sarasota, FLTampa Public Library Purchase Award2012 Book Cover Illustration, “Reading Embodied Citizenship,” Rutgers Press2011 Featured Artist, ART Mag, Charleston, SC “Artist Centerpiece” Skirt Magazine, Atlanta, GA2010 “Selected Works” Specs Magazine, Winter Park, FL2007 Award of Distinction, LeMoyne Art, Tallahassee, FL2004 “Nomads Show Olan Quattro” Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, FL