A statewide exhibition brings an opportunity to show work to an audience that may not be reachable otherwise, but the work should accurately represent the artist’s materials, style, and subject matter, not create expectations that additional explorations of the artist’s body of work will not fulfill. Or should […]
The Bible, oddly enough, is full of love stories, with none so prominent as that of the first man and woman. Nancy Andruk Olson explores this ancient romance, before the arrival of the serpent and the couple’s ultimate expulsion, in her collection Lover Lay Down. Snuggled away in downtown […]
“I have a major art crush on John McAllister,” says Nancy Andruk Olson. She found him on Instagram, which she began using a few years ago when she was getting back into painting after a motherhood-inspired hiatus. “Like all major crushes, I use the internet to stalk him […]
No self-respecting dramatist would set a Biblical Apocalypse in the parking lot of a shopping center; it’s too mundane, too much a whimper and not a bang, to produce the proper sense of doom. Yet today it’s a routine event to carry the groceries out to the car, […]
Nancy Andruk Olson has been painting her entire life. She grew up in Los Angeles then attended BYU. She has a BFA in painting from BYU and a post-baccalaureate certificate from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Bountiful Davis Art Center.
