Olivia Mae Pendergast & Larry OTOO: Lost in the Crowd

OOA Gallery presents the exhibition Lost in the Crowd by Olivia Mae Pendergast & Larry OTOO. The group show will be on view from 24 October until 29 November 2020.

“… This apparent simplicity conceals great creativity and the search for undetectable effects and the results are obvious, these paintings are beautiful and they move us. Their share of mystery also tickles our imagination. All the poetry of her [Olivia Mae Pendergast] work emerges in this way, with great subtlety. And you feel its charm and sweetness at the same time as its force, not an aggressive, invasive, obvious force, but one of those forces which start from the bottom of the soul and can overturn worlds…”

“…Loving to represent human encounters in traditional situations (markets, festivals, etc.) in his country, Larry OTOO finds there his favorite material; the play of tin roofs, that of umbrellas and parasols that mark elegant territories, the contours of the narrow streets that make up the many graphic motifs that structure his paintings, especially since the often unusual point of view helps to give them an attractive new perspective. Larry OTOO’s paintings are like a ray of sunshine that soothes, warms and invigorates us.”

Texts by Sylvain Sankale, Art Critic based in Dakar, Senegal.

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