Olivia Locher graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2013. She was born in 1990. She was raised in Johnstown, PA. She is currently showing at the Steven Kasher Gallery in a show called Pheromone Hotbox.
The show features five female
photographers dealing with the subject of nude women.
She has created self-published books
that are editions ranging from 25-100 that she sells on her website. She has
shown at many galleries in New York including Aperture Foundation, Kasher
Potamkin, and the pop up gallery Photoville. She has had one exhibition in Milan,
and a few around Pennsylvania. The photos that she showed in Pheromone Hotbox were
around 30x24”.
I think that what makes Olivia a successful artist is the way her works feature a lot of bright colors and silly subject matters. Her work gives off the impression that her models are having fun. At the same time she makes commentary on social matters. For example, the following piece is titled How to Apply Lipstick. While making fun of makeup tutorials or standards of how women should dress is by no means new subject matter, Olivia adds her own spin to it. She takes it to the extreme to point at how ridiculous those standards are.
Her pieces are inspirational because they are attractive, well thought out, and they have meaning that engages people on a social level.
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