VOGEL POP OLAN Montgomery 2008 Artist Catalog. 10 7\8 x 12 3\4

2 catalogs from the late Olan Montgomery. . The first, with the image wrap cover has full page prints prefect for framing. The second, with the black cover and the page post-its has prints with representation of available color variations. some of these pages in the second book have been marked (visible in picture 10). More pictures available.

Review Oh, the horror when I recently threw out a painting a downtowny friend had made for me some years ago, then found out his prices had been skyrocketing! And he's not even dead! Now, I hold onto every little canvas and thank God, I've not only kept the portrait Olan Montgomery made of me, it's looming on my living room wall and lording over all the portraits. (Yes, in lieu of mirrors, I have wall-to-wall visions of a younger, lovelier me.) Olan starts by taking a photo of you while telling you how meaningful you are to society and/or how you have penetrating eyes. Then he does painty or digital things to the photo and emerges with a portrait that's generally super colorful and very true. I'm hardly his only subject; he's also done Boy George, Justin Bond, Rufus Wainwright, and even some straight people. At the Art Expo last week, he sold a bunch of those paintings and had even more for sale at the after party at, aptly, Kanvas. 'My work is an effort to capture an essence,' says Olan, 'and place it into a perpetual freeze frame. Why can't a nanosecond last forever?' My Olan portrait will last forever, that's for sure. I ain't throwing it out! - Michael Musto, La Daily Musto, The Village Voice, March 3rd, 2008 --Michael Musto, 3:49 pm, MARCH 3, 2008 - La Daily Musto - Michael Musto, La Daily Musto, Village Voice, March 3, 2008, 'Portrait Artist Makes it Big By Upping the Subculture'Art Review of Pop Artist Olan by Monica Colbert for New York Arts Magazine 'Vibrantly orbiting poised subjects, drizzled liberally onto canvases or brushed violently, colored paint is essential to making art pop. And no one understands the liquid rainbow better than New York City based artist, Olan.' - You Bring Light In By Monica Colbert - NY ARTS MAGAZINE --NY Arts MagazineFeature about the art of Pop Artist Olan by Laurel Gross for The New York Times '...the images are as invigorating as an unexpected gust of air cutting through the hot stillness of summer.' Urban Tactics: Tellers in Tangerine by Laurel Gross for The New York Times - July 13, 2003 --New York TimesAbout the Author Olan Montgomery is a pop artist living and working in New York City. He is known for his ability to shed light on aspects of society usually over-looked yet obvious like the homeless, various celebrities along with political commentary on basic human rights, poverty and pollution. There is an aspect of beauty to many of his works focusing on the individual through facial expression and eye-contact in many of the artist's paintings. 'I create my paintings from my own photographs. They are a combination of my photos handpainted on canvas. My work has a simple message: see the individual through color and light. by doing so, one's individuality can be more fully understood. It is a visual stimulation to remind people to simply look at one another and see through the layers of a complex personality. In our world today fame and pop stardom are sometimes reduced to '5 seconds of fame'. In some respects we can blame (or thank) the mass media for contributing to a jaded social value of 'been there, done that'. Regardless, my work is an effort to capture an essence within that fleeting context and place it into a perpetual freezeframe. why can t a nano-second last forever? - OLAN 2008