next open studio is on July 9
show reception is on Thursday
July 14
5:30-7:00pm
Cloister Gallery at Church Christ Cathedral
1117 Texas Ave Houston
live music, drinks and finger food
Please visit my fundraiser exhibition at Christ Church Cathedral or participate by purchasing paintings with UNICEF sticker online
Olga's studio
on Winter Street in Houston
is open to public
whenever the studio door
is open,
on Second Saturday of every month
in the afternoon,
and by appointment
“I am inspired by living,moving scenes. Shapes and forms stay suggested and open, leaving room for the viewer‘s interpretation. My intent is to capture an experience, a state of mind, rather than a mere likeness.What is impossible in real life becomes visually essential.“
The way you capture the point of view of the moment, very expressive... almost as if each painting has a heartbeat.
Maidelys Rey, Houston realtor
Plein Air
Monmartre
10"x 14" oil on linen
”…Born in Russia, Olga Nicolaevna Porter made brilliant studies of art which she continued in California and Texas. Her style could be described as neo-impressionist…but more openly figurative and perhaps sometimes with something oblique or Bukowskian. Her cityscapes quiver with life and her nudes are more expressive than sensual. It is without a doubt this authentic and uncompromising expressivity, which refuses embellishment and flattery, that lends some of her nudes an essentialist quality. I do not mean this term in the way some people apply it to art, but rather, that within the intricacies of Porter’s images, the occasional flirtations and near abstractions, the essential always emerges. Beautiful paintings!”
by Giulio-Enrico Pisani of Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek, Luxemburg
Panorama triptych
oil on linen 24" x 72"
City
Travis Street
40"x 30" oil on linen
People
Alone
36"x 36" oil on linen
Studio Visit Magazine
The Open Studios Press Vol 40 2018