Artist Statement
My work is built from conversations I have between the future, present and past. The conversations are my compositions where the colors fashion themselves into various abstract components. These components form the shapes of thought, a language that is musical, architectural, spacial, woven, spiritual and subliminal.
I am inspired by the power of improvisation as an artistic tool because of its effect in dispelling time and because the results are often surprising. I also feel a sense of risk involved in making something unfamiliar but the challenge of taking that unfamiliarity and attempting to polish it into something compelling and harmonious, feels worth it.
How can I enjoy my work as a seven year old version of myself?
That’s my goal, to make work that would inspire awe and wonder in my seven year old self.
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email: ollieglatzer@gmail.com
Bio
Ollie Glatzer lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is a self-taught artist. He currently works as a Senior Producer in the experiential design industry. He was also an interactive producer for Meow Wolf. While there, he helped build cutting-edge ARGs (alternate reality games) into their recent exhibitions, ‘Omega Mart’ in Las Vegas, Nevada, and ‘Convergence Station’ in Denver, Colorado. He has exhibited at galleries in Seattle, including the Cornish Alumni gallery, Ghost Gallery, Fictilis, and Nepo House, as well as in the Bay Area at Warehouse 416, Sara Lisch Gallery, and GAFFTA in San Francisco.
Ollie was born in Oakland, California, and started music studies in violin and viola at the age of 7. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and obtained a music degree in Viola Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 2003, he was a member of a Fellowship String Quartet in residence at the University of Santa Barbara, where he performed in master classes with Yo-Yo Ma and the Emerson String Quartet. For the past 15 years, Ollie has worked in the video game and entertainment industry as a sound designer, composer, and producer.