UPDATED 3/24/01

Artists Portfolio: Kathie Olivas

"Bewitching" Oil on Wood 24" x 48" 2000	"The Sexual Life of Our Time (The Problems Lay Buried, Unspoken)" Oil on Wood, 36" x 48" 2000 Collection of Jim & Barbra Beeler	"Doesn't Someone Deserve a Toastmaster This Christmas?" Oil on Wood, 24" x 48" 2000 Collection of Skyway Films
"Joy" Oil on Wood, 24" x 48" 2000	"Figure 8 (part 2 of 2)" 48" x 48", oil, encaustic, collograph, charcoal, and found objects on wood.	"Here is the Mother (Part 1)" Oil on Wood 12" x24" Collection of Jode Mueller
"Here is the Mother (Part 2)" Oil on Wood 12" x24" Collection of Roger Sullins	"Servus" oil, found objects, and collograph on aluminum and wood cut-outs (re-sewn with copper wire) 1999 Collection of Jim & Barbra Beeler	"And Then Suddenly the Image Blurs" 12" x 24" Oil on Wood 2000
"Untitled Archetype #2 (And Then Suddenly the Image Blurs) "12" x 24" Oil on Wood 2000, Collection of Marie Yoho Dorsey

Contact Kathie at Hyde Park Fine Arts

813-258-8883 or email

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Kathie Olivas is a multi-media artist and the curator of Hyde Park Fine Arts, Inc. She has organized numerous exhibitions including the multi-gallery Avant Hop, He Said, She Said, Y2K Survival Sale and Auction, and is currently collaborating with Experimental Skeleton on a book project to benefit the Tampa Bay visual arts avant garde as a public arts project. She has had several solo exhibitions of her work and has also participated in many juried and invitational exhibitions. Recently, she was voted "Best Artist" by the Weekly Planet's annual "Best of the Bay 99" reader's poll. Her current work explores the ideas of trace and memory through historical context and iconography. By means of literary text and appropriated imagery, she takes on the roles of fictional characters, to try to explore the past generations that directly influenced the complex social structure to which she now finds herself apart of. In creating these collaborative "self-portraits" she experiments with combining traditional processes such as encaustic painting and photogravure, with newer, experimental techniques involving mixed media and installation that utilize time and environment as influential and deconstructive forces.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Art of Cocktails: Kathie Olivas Bewitching January 2000 In association with the Tampa Museum of Art's Avant Garde
Touch 1999 Performing Arts Center, Tampa, FL
I Had Only One Desire... 1998-1999 Art & Java, Ybor City, FL
Figure 8 1998 The Rubb, Ybor City, FL
Pictorial Discourse Centre Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Selected Juried Exhibitions:
The Devil Made Me Do It 1999, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
All Florida Show 1999, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
Annual Florida Printmaker's Juried Exhibition 1998, Frizzell Cultural Centre Gallery, Ft. Myers, FL
All Florida Show 1998 Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
Annual Juried Student Exhibition 1997 Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Received the Graphicstudio Award in Sculpture
Object(ives) Juried sculpture exhibition 1997 Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL

Selected Invitational Exhibitions:
Second Annual Valentine Peep Show 2000, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL, Gallery On Florida
Simple Gifts 1999, Gallery on Florida, Tampa, FL
Holiday Show Invitational 1999, Arts on the Park, Lakeland, FL
Portfolio Exhibition 1999, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
Gallery Night 1999, American Heart Association Morton Plant/ Mease Pavillion, Clearwater, FL
Made In Tampa 1999, In association with the Tampa Gallery Association's Eat Your Art Out
gallery hop, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
He Said, She Said 1999, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
The Avant Hop: A Multi-gallery Group Exhibition 1999 - Gallery on Florida, Tampa, FL; New Heights Gallery, Tampa, FL; Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL; Sulphur Springs Theatre, Tampa, Fl; Image Brewery, Valrico, FL
Summer Spice 1999; Studio Gallery on Azeele, Tampa, FL Group Exhibition curated by Angela Dickerson 1999
The Gardens, St. Petersburg, FL, In association with Szilage Gallery @ 145
Co- 1999, Szilage Gallery @ 145, St. Petersburg, FL, Nolita Gallery, New York, NY
Valentine Peep Show 1999, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
Turn the Page: An Artist Book Introspective 1998, Curated by Bradlee Shanks and Wendy Dickerson
University of South Florida Teaching Gallery, Tampa, FL
sHOTEL(L) 1998, Directed by jsg boggs, Tahitian Inn, Tampa, FL
Women of Florida Printmaker's Exhibition 1998, Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City, FL
The Body: Drawing and Photography Exhibition 1997, Curated by Mernet Larson and Lou Marcus, University of South Florida Teaching Gallery, Tampa, FL

Exhibitions Curated:
Three Faces 2000: Exhibition of multi-media works by Kathryn Jill,Johnson, Roxie Veasey, and Angela Dickerson. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL.
Bob Dorsey solo exhibition: Original Child 2000, Solo exhibition at Covivant gallery in Tampa, FL
Joe Griffith solo exhibition: Utility Haze 2000, Solo exhibition at Covivant gallery in Tampa, FL.
Valentine Peep Show 2000: Two gallery exhibition, co-curated by Cat Thompson. Featured nude and erotic art by artists working in a variety of media. Over 40 partcipating artists including Ron Pieniak, Kym O'Donnell, Joe Griffith, Richard Beckman, Virginia Beth Shields, Brad Shanks, and AA. Rucci. Gallery on Florida, Hyde Park Fine Arts.
Jack Barrett New Works 1999: Solo exhibition for the established St. Petersburg artist. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL.
Y2K Survival Sale and Auction 1999: Fundraising event to benefit the Tampa Bay Visual Arts Avant Garde book project. Exhibition, silent auction, live auction, and after party. Covivant Gallery and Studios, Tampa, FL.
Portfolio Exhibition 1999: Exhibition featuring limited edition,portfolios and additional works created by 30 local artists; each,portfolio collection containing one work from each of the participating artists, along with their biographies. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL.
Made In Tampa 1999: In association with the Tampa Gallery Association Gallery Hop "Eat Your Art Out." Featured the work of 12 Tampa based artists working in various medias, Hyde Park Fine Arts.
He Said, She Said 1999: A multi-media group exhibition co-curated by Thomas Murray. The show featured work based on the themes involving sexual identity, gender roles, and the very different interpretations that male and female artists present and represent visually and conceptually in their work. The front gallery was split into a "male side" and a "female side" to create a visual push and pull of art, artistic style, individuality, sexuality, gender, and the viewer's own individual understanding (or lack thereof within that realm). Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL.
The Avant Hop 1999: Multi-gallery group exhibition featuring 62 local and nationally recognized artists each showing one work per gallery. Exhibitions consisted of experimental and cutting edge works including film, photography, various 2-D media, installation, and performance. Consecutive three evening openings included each of the galleries involved plus an artist film and photography event at the Sulphur Springs Theatre. Co-curated with Angela Dickerson. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Gallery on Florida, New Heights, Image Brewery, Sulphur Springs Theatre.
Best of Tampa 1999: Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition. First annual juried exhibition featuring works selected by jurors Debra Jo Radke and Jim Beeler. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
Kis, Diaz, Portieles 1999: Latin artists Carlos Kis (Brazil), Vargas Diaz (Peru), and Guillermo Portieles (Cuba). In association with the Spring Tampa Gallery Association Gallery Hop. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL,
Carlos Kis Solo Exhibition 1999: Internationally recognized Brazilian artist Carlos Kis. Featured original paintings and self-invented process pieces called "phenolics." Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL.
Valentine Peep Show 1999: Group exhibition featuring the original work of over 30 local and national artists. Focused on various forms of erotic art in a wide range of media. Hyde Park Fine Arts.

Collaborations:
1999-2001: Experimental Skeleton (Visual Arts Book Project)
1999-2000: Photographer Kym O'Donnell
1999: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; producer Evan Cutter and correspondent Vance Degeneres
1995: Maurizio Cattelan and Jade Dellinger; through the visiting artist lecture series at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.

Education:
University of South Florida Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude 1999. Course work included one year of study at Graphicstudio: The Institute for Research in Art, including a residency at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC: studies covered gallery sales, research/ history, conservation, curation, the collaborative process, documentation, and archival framing and storage. Other university courses in the studio programs included printmaking, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Art history courses included basic study in art history survey, and more extensive study in medieval art, early American art and craft, 20th century art, and contemporary art.

Work History:
January 1999- present. Curator/ Assistant Manager of Hyde Park Fine Arts in Tampa, FL.
August 1999- present. Chair of Public Relations, Tampa Museum of Art's Avant Garde.
1995-1998. Caricature Artist and Illustrator, Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc., Tampa, FL.