Olivia Springberg
ABOUT
Olivia Springberg is a multi-media artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in theory and history of art and design. In her dreamlike paintings, abstract images are blurred and out of focus, permeating her multi-layered visual language. Drawing from Jewish tradition, Kabbalistic dream theory, and interests in archaeology, parapsychology, and the paranormal, she embraces mystery and ambiguity, blending the familiar with the unfamiliar. Her work often features sculptural frames with organic edges that extend beyond the canvas, encouraging an exploration of the boundaries between fictional space and reality. Olivia was a 2023 Florence Leif Award recipient and an L.A. Studio resident. She curated Water Seeks the Lowest Ground at Gellman Gallery in the RISD Museum and Judaica at Goldfarb Family Gallery, both in Providence, RI. Springberg has exhibited at Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY; Field Projects, New York, NY; Project Gallery, New York, NY; Morris Adjmi Architects, New York, NY; Visu Contemporary, Miami, FL; and Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI. She has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, and Visionary Projects.
In my work, I engage with sites of improbability–places that exist between the visible and invisible. I am interested in the experience of dreaming and how we attempt to represent the experience in waking life. I am particularly informed by Kabbalistic and parapsychological theories, which explore the mind’s ability to access hidden realms of knowledge and communication. In my paintings, I imagine placing an object behind an X-ray, revealing imagined barriers, and making visible their overlaps. The images are deconstructed and obscured by each layer of paint, only to be re-excavated and repeatedly re-formed by new moments of specificity and ambiguity.
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