It has always fascinated me that two people looking at the same image see
different things. My pictures, which might be called non-objective, abstract-expressionist
color field paintings (now there’s a mouthful!) make no attempt to represent anything
in a direct way. Yet people are always pointing out things they see in them. Sometimes
I can see those things too and other times they remain invisible to me. Although landscape
allusions frequently sneak into my paintings,most of the time I’m trying to evoke
a sense of energy, mood, light.
I’ve never been timid in using color. Living in Los Angeles has had an effect on the
way I see color. Often the light in the city flattens color. Other times it can be vivid.
Where I live, along the coast, the light is usually clear and clean and the colors
of the ocean, sky, mountains and foliage are brilliant—it is a wonderful environment
for a painter.”
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2007 Three
Person Show George
Billis Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2007 Two
person show Gallery
I M A, Seattle,
WA
2006 Two
person show Gallery
I M A, Seattle,
WA
2006 Four
person show Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Art
Rental and Sales Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2006 Three
Person Show George
Billis Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2006 Group
show Incognito Santa
Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA
2005 Summer
Salon Group show George
Billis Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2005 Abstract/Distract
Group show Berozkina
Gallery, Kirkland,
WA
2005 Liquitex
Artist of the Month Liquitex.com
2004 Solo
Exhibition Art
at El Paseo Square, Palm
Desert, CA
2004 Group
show Incognito Santa
Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA
2004 Two-person
exhibition Berozkina
Gallery, Kirkland,
WA
2003 Solo
exhibition Berozkina
Gallery, Kirkland,
WA
2002 Two-person
exhibition Berozkina
Gallery, Kirkland,
WA
2001 Solo
exhibition Art
Center/Palisades, Pacific
Palisades, CA
2001 Artists for Hope City
of Hope/Kraft Art Studios, Los
Angeles, CA
2000 Solo
exhibition Art
Center/Palisades, Pacific
Palisades, CA
1991 Solo
exhibition AT&T
Corporate Gallery, Hopewell,
NJ
1990 Solo
exhibition Kling
Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
1989 Solo
exhibition Hicks
Art Center, Newtown,
PA
1988 Solo
exhibition Bethlehem
Fine Arts Commission, Bethlehem,
PA
Juried Exhibitions
2005 Made
in California City
of Brea Gallery, Brea,
CA
1992 Three
Rivers Arts Festival Pittsburgh,
PA
1992 Pennsylvania
Painters Bucknell
University —Clement Greenberg, juror, Lewisburg,
PA
1989 Springfield
Art League National
Exhibition, Springfield
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield,
MA
1989 32nd
Chattaqua National Exhibition
of American Art, Chattaqua,
New York
1988 American
Artists Professional League/Salamagundi
Club, New
York City
Bio
Whenever Glenn Ossiander is asked how long he has been an
artist, he always answers “for as long as I can remember”. He began drawing as
a child, copying pictures from the newspaper. He attended a technical high
school in Philadelphia where half of every school day was devoted to
fundamentals of drawing, painting, composition, color theory, lettering,
printmaking, typography, graphic design and photography.
His
graduation portfolio won a full scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts. Glenn also attended the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of
the Arts) and the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he learned skills that
led him into a long and successful career as an art director and creative
director in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles.
His
interest in fine arts never waned. In 1980 he began to paint in a non-objective
abstract style. Glenn says it took some time to gain the skill to paint in this
genre and to find a style he could say was his own. Since then he’s had many
one-artist shows and his paintings have been included in numerous group
exhibitions. Today Glenn’s work hangs in many private, public and corporate
collections.
Since
living in Los Angeles Glenn’s art has changed. Colors have become more vivid,
richer, and the mood mellower. While his paintings can’t really be called
Southern California pictures, there is little doubt that the move from east
coast to west has had a significant effect on the way this painter sees the
world.
Born
1941, Philadelphia PA
Education Full
Scholarship
Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia,
PA
Studied
painting under Hobson Pittman and Morris
Blackburn
Graphic
design studies at
The
Philadelphia College of Art and
The
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Professional experience Advertising
industry creative executive
for
more than 25 years in Philadelphia, New York,
Bethlehem
and Los Angeles.
Represented painter since 1985
1984-1994
Board
of Directors,
Lehigh
Valley Chamber Orchestra
Allentown,
PA
Served
as president for three year term
1992-1995
Chair
of the Arts Advisory Council
Lehigh
Valley Hospital
Allentown,
PA
2005 to present
President,
St.
Matthews Music Guild
Pacific
Palisades, CA
Publications /Media Palsadian Post, pacific Palisades CA 2007
Molly Barnes interview/ ArtInqiry Adelphia/Comcast Cable 10/5/05
Peter Stekel, Kirkland Courier, Kirkland WA 6/1/02
Palisadian-Post, Pacific Palisades, CA 10/12/00
Art Now Gallery Guide West 10/2000
Peter Proun, Art Matters, Philadelphia 9/89
Morning Call, Allentown PA 9/10/89
Globe-Times, Bethlehem, PA 8/31/89
Advertising Age 10/89
Art Matters, Philadelphia 3/89
Morning Call, Allentown, PA 7/16/89
Morning
Call, Allentown, PA 2/28/88
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