POP Art inspired by Ne... By artist OLAN montgo... Book Preview RESUME' Gallery Representation: Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NY www.ward-nasse.org Steps Gallery, London no art currently on display Rogue Space Gallery high-line annual open studios www.highlineopenstudios09.org/Map/Map.html Gallery 50, Rehoboth, DE www.50contemporaryart.com Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA www.lymaneyerart.com Education: Mother, Eslye Moore, self-taught artist Father, Tim O. Moore, photographer Columbia College, New York Interview Magazine 84-86 Fashion Industry 84-present selected Exhibitions: Soho, on the street, 2002-2004 Ward-Nasse, NYC, NY 2002 - present annual solo exhibitions The Art Party Hosted by Alan Cumming  2003 PLAID, Solo Exhibition, NY Nightlife hosted Boy George 2003 Center for GLBT 12th St,  2004 & 2005  SPAR, Rehoboth, De  2004-2008 Gallery 50, Rehoboth, De 2008-present STEPS Gallery, London, 2008-2009 Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, NYC 2006 Cottage School Church Benefit 2007-2008 Living Beyond Belief, Youth Events and Auction for World Aids Day and more - NYC 2006 - 2009 KANVAS Gallery, NYC 2007-2008 The Canvas Gallery, Seattle, Wa.  2008 New York Sex Museum Gala , NYC (commission of Dita von Teese - solo artist) auction 2008 Ali Forney Center Fund Raiser - Chelsea Art Museum - NYC- 2008  Live Out Loud 6th and 7th Annual Galas - Chelsea Art Museum -  2008 - 2009 Gazelland Launch - Leo Kesting Gallery - NYC 2008 Live Portrait Event CEO Dany Sands of Make-up Forever 2009 Art Expo, NYC   2008 Art Expo, Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay 2008 Gallery 50, Rehoboth, DE - Solo exhibition, Aug-Sept, 2009 Look at Life solo exhibition at Summer Stage Concert Central Park Sept. 2009 (solo & juried) Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC summer art fair, 2009 Art & Souls Exhibition, NYC Nov 2009 Collections: Serge Villa, Milan Italy School of Modern Art, Milan Italy Center for GLBT, 12th St., New York Courtney Love, Private Collection Alan Cumming, Private Collection Susan Jaffee, Private Collection Beverly Sassoon, Private Collection Ethan Steifel, Private Collection Corporate Owners & venues where art has been purchased for display: Bamboo 52, NYC 123 Burger Shot Beer, NYC Hollywood Tans, 24th & 6th, NYC Masako Hoshi Salons, Toyko & Kyoto Japan Publications: New York Times, July 2003  MTV.com, October 13, 2006, Courtney Love art purchase of an Olan  NYArts Magazine, March/April 2006  M.A.R. Magazine, summer 2006 (Cover)  M.A.R. Magazine, summer 2006 (article)  Life Times, ART NYC, July 2006  Michael Musto, The Village Voice, March 2008  Michael Musto, The Village Voice, June 2008  Heeb Magazine, Issue #19 2009 - Courtney Love Interview  ETHAN SAYS BLOG, June 6, 2009 Art Images  The Edge, Fire Island, NY - June 17, 2009 - Art images Only  Out.com, POP.NOGRAPHY August 10, 2009  HOMO-NEUROTIC.COM, August 13, 2009  The Bottom Line Magazine, Palm Springs, August 15th 2009 - Cover Story  The Cape GAZETTE, AUGUST 19th - 2009  Bethany Beach Wave - Delmarva Now, August 20th - 2009  ABOUT Gay LIfe Magazine, AUGUST 31 - 2009  EDGE New York, AUGUST 27, 2009  Best of Gay New York, October 15, 2009  PRIDEsource.com - DIRTY POP - MIKEY ROX Holiday gift guide - NOV 19,2009  Q & A Olan Montgomery - 60x80 Right Sized Travel - City Guide NYC - NOV 2009  SAN DIEGO GAY & LESBIAN News - SDGLN.com - Dec 2, 2009  Memberships: Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street, NYC —2002-present MyArt Space.com   2009 Lookatlife.com  2008-2009

Olan's favorite...Thoughts from a great thinker of the late 1800's...

"I say that the ordinary man who comes before a painting, frankly and generously ready to yield himself up to the impression that the artist has sought to arouse in his senses through his vision, will feel the significance of that art much more purely and fully than the critic who has set up for himself an elaborate code of laws founded on the achievement of one or two great masters, which the standard he applies to every work of art in a calculated and death-dealing manner which destroys his capacity to receive its real significance.

In short, the expert, by book-learning and by science, may come to a wide knowledge of the history of a painting of it's maker; but he has no gifts whereby he senses the real significance of that work of art a whit better than the ordinary man, who often endowed with superb and exquisite perception of the music that is in colour and line and mass.

It is as fatuous to measure the art of a Boucher or Chardin by the art of a Michelangelo or a Rembrant, as it is to measure that art of a Velazquez by the art of a Turner. The sole significance is as to whether an artist, by the wizardry of his skill, has created the impression upon our senses that he desired to create. If he shall have done so, then for us who sense it, he is a creator; if he shall have failed, then for us whom he fails to reach he does not exist as an artist." - Haldane Macfall.

A Little BACKGROUND...

OLAN Puts it SIMPLY....

My work has a simple message: see the individual through color
and light. by doing so, one's individuality can be more fully
understood.
- OLAN