Olive Ayhens
Camelid in the City
2019
Oil on linen
52 x 39 inches
Signed lower right
(BP#OA-8358)
Olive Ayhens
Flyway Intersection
2018-19
Oil on linen
75 x 39.5 inches
Signed lower right
(BP#OA-8306)
Olive Ayhens
Bitter Lake
2014
Oil on linen
31 x 47 inches
(LBFA #OA-7051)
Olive Ayhens
Outskirts of Roswell
2014
Oil on canvas
44 x 52 inches
(LBFA #OA-7240)
Olive Ayhens
Oceanic Library
2014
Oil on canvas
35 x 48 inches
(LBFA #OA-7042)
Olive Ayhens
Memories of Beasts Past
2013
Oil on linen
47 x 32 inches
(LBFA #OA-6162)
Olive Ayhens
Carnac
2011
Oil on canvas
39 x 40 inches
(LBFA #OA-6157)
Olive Ayhens
Remembering My Chickens
2010
Oil on canvas
62 x 51 inches
(LBFA #OA-6163)
Olive Ayhens
Interior Wilderness
2009-2010
Oil on linen
60 x 60 inches
(LBFA #OA-6161)
Olive Ayhens
Computer Lab
2005
Oil on linen
52 x 61 inches
(LBFA #4603)
Olive Ayhens
Grand Central:Inside/Outside
2012
Mixed media
37 x 31 inches
(LBFA #OA-6099)
Olive Ayhens
Deep Time/Malta
2009
Oil on canvas
53 x 47 inches
(BP#OA-7139)
Olive Ayhens
Parallel Strata
2009
Oil on linen
45 x 57 inches
(BP#OA-8304)
Olive Ayhens
Yellowstone
1994
Oil on canvas
36 x 50 inches
(BP#OA-7143)
Olive Ayhens
Nature's Sanctuary
1992
Oil on canvas
48 x 52 inches
(BP#OA-8003)
Olive Ayhens (b. Oakland, CA) received her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to her extensive exhibition history, Ayhens has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Joan Mitchell Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant. Artist residencies include The Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, MacDowell Colony, Fundacion Valparaiso, the Salzburg Kunsterhaus, Yaddo Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Roswell Artist Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2017. The artist lives and works in New York City.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent review of Olive Ayhens: Metabolic Metropolis in "The New York Sun."
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent review of Olive Ayhens: Metabolic Metropolis in "Manhattan Art Review."
Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce that Olive Ayhens's painting, The Waves are Coming, has been included in the group exhibition, Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The exhibition will be on view from November 2023 to mid-January 2024.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent review of Olive Ayhens in New York Magazine.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce that Olive Ayhens has been featured in Issue 128 of Lettre International featuring over fifteen nearly-full-page reproductions.
The gallery is pleased to announce that the Joan Mitchell Foundation has named Olive Ayhens a 2020 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share The New Yorker's recent review of "Olive Ayhens: Urbanites and Ur-Beasts"
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent interview between Etty Yaniv and Olive Ayhens in Art Spiel on occasion of her forthcoming exhibition at the gallery.
Olive Ayhens's "War Endures" Reproduced in Harper's August 2019.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce that Olive Ayhens is included in A Radical Voice: 21 Women at the Southampton Arts Center. The exhibition is curated by Janet Goleas.
