Kelly Olshan Fine Art
  • Home
  • Portfolio
  • About
  • Store

3D Oil Paintings

These 3D paintings present the objective of pursuit, utilizing a distinct visual vocabulary to create an unattainable space: architectural references such as staircases, the color blue, and recycled art materials. Drawing upon architecture’s symbolic connotations, abstracted staircases direct the viewer skywards. Disjoined and spatially incongruous, these staircases would be almost impossible to climb. 

Rebecca Solnit wrote, blue is “the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in,” a place “where you are not and where you can never go.” This series utilizes the color blue to reinforce the never-ending nature of ambition. Just as the blue-space ceases to be blue upon arrival, to perpetually pursue is to immediately replace one goal with another upon its accomplishment. 


Water is Falling

Picture
Water is Falling, 2020. Oil on 3D panel, 76 x 55 x 3 in. For sale: $10,000.

California

Picture
California, 2020. Oil and recycled paint on panel. 48 x 30 x 3.5." For sale: $2,100

Upland, Portal (Acrophobia)

Picture
Upland Portal (Acrophobia), Oil and charcoal on 3D panel, 22 x 19.5 x 4 in. For sale: $700.

Vertigo II

Picture
Vertigo II, Oil, molding paste, graphite, and recycled paint on 3D panel, 26 x 18 x 5 in. Sold.

Upland

Picture
Upland, 2020. Oil on panel, 46 x 39.25 x 3.5 in. Sold.

The Farther

Picture
The Farther, Oil, acrylic, recycled paint scraps, molding paste, & graphite on 3D panel, 50 x 55.5 x 7 in. For sale: $4,000.

Climb

Picture
Climb, Oil, recycled paint & charcoal, charcoal & molding paste on 3D panel, 76 x 67 x 7 in. Collection of UNC Asheville.

No Summit

Picture
No Summit, Oil, graphite, & molding paste on 3D panel , 38 x 75 x 7 in. Sold.

Perpetual Ascent

Picture
Perpetual Ascent, Oil on 3D panel, 46 x 48 x 7 in. Collection of UNC Asheville.

Strive

Picture
Strive, Oil, graphite, & molding paste on 3D panel, 48 x 30 x 7 in. Collection of the UNC Asheville Honors Program, Laurel Forum.

Ambitions

Picture
Ambitions, Oil, graphite, & molding paste on panel, 56 x 60 x 3.5 in. For sale: $1,000.

Land of the Above

Picture
Land of the Above, Oil, molding paste, & graphite on 3D panel, 40 x 27 x 26 in. For sale: $1,750.

Ambitions Installation

Picture
Ambitions Window I, Oil, molding paste, and graphite on 3D panel, 13.5 x 12.75 x 3.5 in. For sale: $150.

Skyscape Installation

Picture
Skyscape, Oil on 3D panel, 30 x 30 x 3.5 in. Sold.

Process Study II

Picture
"Process Study II," Oil & paint scraps on 3D panel, 22" x 20" x 2.5." For sale: $250.

Waterscape Installation

Picture
Installation shot from Solo Exhibition, Perpetual Pursuit at UNC Asheville.

Bluespace Installation

Picture
"Bluespace Installation. Oil, acrylic, recycled paint, graphite, and molding paste on 3D panel. 35 x 50 x 3.5 in. Sold.

Waterscape

Picture
Waterscape, Oil on 3D panel, 30 x 30 x 3.5 in. Sold.

Waterscape Installation

Picture
Waterscape Installation detail.
Copyright Kelly Olshan © 2021