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IRENE HARDWICKE OLIVIERI
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Faint from
joy
Oil on Wood
22 x 69 inches
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Making
you lovely
Oil on Wood
15.5 x 22.5
inches
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Body of
trees
Oil on Wood
21 x 19 inches
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Valentine
for a cougar
Oil on Wood
31.5 x 74
inches
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Neotoma
cinerea
Oil on Wood
44 x 22 inches
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Heat of
the day, cool of the night
Oil on Wood
64 x 26.5
inches
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Growing legs
Oil on wood panel
30 x 75 inches
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How dare you
Oil on wood panel
34 x 19 inches
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The good wife?
Oil on pondersosa pine
15 inches diameter
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Where I live
Oil on canvas
30 x 15 inches
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Wild babies
Oil on maple burl
9 x 24 inches
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(all titles are
exactly as written, capitalizing only the first word)
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Eden, Again
Painted on old cupboard doors, weathered bits of driftwood, the lids
of disassembled boxes and shutters that have come off their hinges,
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri’s pictures of voluptuous women and virile men –
set in fabulous landscapes teeming with all manner of flora and fauna –
re-write the story of the Garden of Eden. Traditionally, the lesson to
be learned from the age-old parable is that desire for knowledge
inevitably leads women (with men following right on their heels) out of
idyllic, uninterrupted contentment and into suffering, hardship and
death – in other words, life as we know it. in olivieri’s hard-working
hands, however, the pursuit of knowledge is not at odds with the
pleasures of the flesh. Rather than linking curiosity and punishment –
and thus establishing the foundation for an absolute division between
heavenly ideals (or Godly perfection) and earthly inadequacies (or human
frailties) – her meticulously crafted yet simply composed images invite
viewers to entertain the idea that a healthy appetite for physical
experience goes hand-in-hand with the desire to discover (and
understand) humanity’s place in the cosmos.
excerpted from Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Paintings, 2000,
by David Pagel
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