New Yorker Passport to the Arts
May 01, 2013 - Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to participate in the 8th Annual Passport to the Arts in partnership with The New Yorker Magazine and Creative Time. The event will take place this Saturday, May 4th, 2013. Passport to the Arts is a celebration of the New York art scene – participants will follow a self-guided gallery walk through premier art destinations in Chelsea and Soho, and enjoy surprise performances at The McKittrick Hotel (home of Sleep No More). Guest will be given a ....
Olek in The Huffington Post
March 06, 2013 - THE HUFFINGTON POST March 6, 2013 Photos and text by: Jaime Rojo & Steve Harrington, Brooklyn Street Art (BSA) For Crochet Street Artist OLEK "The End is Far" For those who follow this sort of thing, street artist Olek has monopolized the category for pink and purple camouflage crochet sculpture on the street. It wouldn't be a stretch to say she actually invented the category, owing as much to the D.I.Y. and hand-crafting movements as to public artists Chri....
ARTINFO on Olek, The End Is Far
February 28, 2013 - http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/02/28/heard-it-through-the-art-vine-oleks-kaleidoscopic-crochet-room-at-jonathan-levine/....
TIME Magazine interviews Olek
February 22, 2013 - http://style.time.com/2013/02/22/the-creative-mind-qa-with-yarnbombing-artist-olek/....
Olek video 2011—2012
October 09, 2012 - This video documents a year of projects created by Olek in locations around the world, from August 2011 through the end of September 2012. The artist is currently raising funds for an ongoing legal case by selling several prints of images of her crochet work. Please visit olekappeal.com for more information on the charges against Olek, the status of her UK trial and a number of ways you can help support. ....
Olek installation at Smithsonian
July 10, 2012 - OLEK's entire studio apartment installation will be included in 40 under 40: Craft Futures, a group exhibition curated by Nicholas Bell at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC 40 under 40: Craft Futures Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW) Washington, DC July 20, 2012—February 3, 2013 40 under 40: Craft Futures features forty artists born since 1972, the year the Smiths....
JLG at SCOPE-Miami 2011
November 08, 2011 - SCOPE-Miami, Booth E09 NE 1st Avenue @ NE 30th Street, Miami, FL 33127 November 29—December 4, 2011 Tues 11/29, 4—8pm | Wed 11/30—Sat 12/3, 11am—7pm | Sun 12/4, 11am—6pm NEW YORK, NY (November 1, 2011) — Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present new works by artists Aakash Nihalani, Jason DeCaires Taylor, Olek and WK at SCOPE-Miami Contemporary Art Fair, from November 29—December 4, 2011, during Art Basel Miami Beach. Placing a focus on p....
Olek crochets the Alamo cube
October 03, 2011 - "I'm Still Proud to Say What I Do For a Living" by Olek Alamo "cube" sculpture, Astor Place, NYC ....
Olek and Swoon video on PBS
September 28, 2011 - Artists Olek and Swoon were recently featured in this street art episode of Off Book, a series on PBS arts http://video.pbs.org/video/12212487 ....
Olek video by FWL
August 24, 2011 - src="http://www.babelgum.com/embed/6004890"; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="356"> In the latest video by Friends We Love, Polish-born, New York-based crochet artist Olek discusses her work featured in The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal, her current solo exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery.....
Olek review on ARTINFO
August 18, 2011 - ARTICLE: www.artinfo.com/news/story/38339/hardcore-yarn-olek-brings-her-aggressive-appropriationist-spin-on-crochet-art-to-chelsea/ SLIDESHOW: www.artinfo.com/news/photos/3355/32383....
Olek in Wall Street Journal (2)
August 09, 2011 - http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/08/09/artist-olek-takes-on-wall-street-with-shopping-carts-and-crochet....
Olek in Wall Street Journal (1)
August 09, 2011 - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904007304576496453008430400.html ....
Olek in the Village Voice (1, 2, 3)
August 08, 2011 - http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/nyc_crocheter_olek.php http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/olek_made_us_a_present.php http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/olek_yarn-bombs_wall_street.php....
Olek in Newsweek/DailyBeast (1, 2)
August 08, 2011 - www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/16/the-daily-pic.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/08/12/olek-crochets-new-art.html....
Olek in Hi-Fructose
August 07, 2011 - http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/1702-an-interview-with-olek.html....
Olek videos of public performances
August 02, 2011 - Polish-born, New York-based Crochet artist Olek is a prolific practitioner of public and performance art (both authorized and unauthorized). Here we share videos of a few of her recent works in NYC, wrapping human subjects as well as objects including the Charging Bull bronze sculpture on Wall Street, a grand piano for the PopUp Pianos "Sing for Hope" project, and a collaboration with a fellow artist for an installation in Thompkins Square Park. ....
Olek on CBS News
July 29, 2011 - Olek was featured on CBS News on July 22, 2011. This video clip features the artist interviewed in her studio, working on a new series of crocheted pieces for her upcoming solo exhibition in August at Jonathan LeVine Gallery.....
New York Magazine features Olek
May 03, 2011 - http://nymag.com/homedesign/spring2011/agata-oleksiak-2011-5/....
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