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2004 REGIONAL EMERGING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Mixed Media + Acrylic // Practicing art for... I'm 42 Next Month
"I make large transfers from stills I take from old home movies and sometimes the internet. Then I paint on them."
CURRENT WORK
CURRENT WORK
When You Grow Up Your Heart Dies
OLLIE WAGNER
OLLIE WAGNER
lives and works in Raleigh North Carolina. He graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Masters of Fine Art from School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston. He has shown work in Raleigh, Washington DC, Boston Massachusetts and Providence Rhode Island. He currently works in the exhibition design department at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
What's the last work you created?
What's the last work you created?
I'm working on a series of paintings. Using Reliquarys and devotional images as a starting point.
What's your favorite thing about creating and why?
What's your favorite thing about creating and why?
It is the closest I can come to describing what it's like inside my head.
Any advice for someone just starting their art career?
Any advice for someone just starting their art career?
Find some other way to make money. Being concerned with selling art will make you a dog chasing its tail and thats not why you got into this.
CURRENT STUDIO
CURRENT STUDIO
ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTIST STATEMENT
My current body of work is comprised of photo-transfers painted in acrylic and enamel on a foundation of collaged plywood. The subjects of the paintings are taken from home movies and are concerned with memory, family and the nature of experiences both personal and universal.
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