7 more rooms were completed at the Certosa Hotel on Certosa Island, Venice.

Photos of Room 23 by Jan Olsson

A Room of One’s Own

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” Virginia Woolf

view from the entrance

view of bed and painting

the key: desktop printmaking plate, paper, and leads for printing

Roland Cabot poses with the painting

preparations: photo, key, bed and sketch for painting

The curator: Lucrezia de Domizio Durini

Creative Rooms Project II_The Artists

Left to Right: Jan CM Peeters, Neriman Polat, Mark MacGowan, Jan Olsson, Roland Cabot, Tania Lopèz Winkler, and Aureli Ruiz

November 22, 2009

Opening of  Creative Rooms, Part II, curated by Lucrezia de Dominizio Durini in collaboration with Gérard Georges Lemaire to coincide with the closing festivities of the 2009 Venice Biennial:

Jan Olsson is creating an installation entitled ” A Room of One’s Own: in memory of Virginia Woolf “

“…there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind.” V.W.

Sample images:

In the bedroom closet, among shoeboxes and the like, a wind stirs. Heavy silence before the storm, followed by destruction and release.

Today France will celebrate the birthday of the beloved and extraordinary artist from Phoenix, Arizona – Sean O’Donnell. For Sean’s family and friends the fireworks on Bastille Day have a special significance. We miss you Sean, but the love, joy and laughter you gave us remains. Happy Birthday.

T-Shirts for the Findells 

While I was in Staunton we printed some tees for the Fins. The first design fuses the lyrics from their wonderful song, “Helen of Troy” off the “Lost in Paradise” album with my painting “Eurydice’s Dance”. Classical Greece meets rock n’ roll. Yes!

The second is from a scratchboard of Adam and Eve that became a design for the Spanish language version of the Fins “Naked with You”.

Lyrics from “Naked with You” are featured in the third design that was taken from illustrations I did for Jean-Pierre Galland’s book entitled “Fumée Clandestine” (published by Ramsay in 1991). It’s a wink at Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’Herbe”. The double meaning is “lost in translation” into the English “Lunch on (the) Grass”.

Check out the Findells’ great music (put on your dancing shoes) and the other good stuff at http://findells.com/home.html

Exhibition May 22 – July 7 2009

BSSS Gallery – 22 Beverly Street – Staunton, Virginia

It’s back “home” to Staunton for a show this spring. Photos taken from Paris, Tucson, and Staunton have been sources for this work. Inspiration from the Findell’s cd “Lost in Paradise”, from tales of Dora and her cabin in Nelson County, from my neighborhood in Paris, and wanderings in and around Tucson, with overlays from the classic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice. It’s a mixed (media) bag – paintings, drawings, prints and ink jet prints mixed with painting, pastel, and charcoal.

Whispers - photo from Dora's cabin-ink jet, paint, charcoal and pastel

Home Front - photo of Paris apartment. Ink jet, charcoal, pastel and paint

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June 5, 2008 – visited Richard Serra’s installation in the Grand Palais,”Promenade”. Watched dancers ask the question: ‘How do you dance with a partner over 50 feet tall, flat, made of steel?’ A life question with several degrees of appropriateness. Continued on foot to the Tuileries where a curved piece is installed in alignment with the obalisque at the Place de la Concorde.

ArtParis-Opening Night at the Grand Palais-April 2, 2008