Olivia Niuman is a Dutch-American artist who uses abstraction as a method for interpreting and communicating fragments from the world that strike her as meaningful. Her compositions begin with compelling visual elements drawn from her own archive of images – a shape formed by two buildings that almost touch, a glint of sunlight off of a window, or the gradual slope of a mountain – that are then abstracted and iterated upon through a dialogue with the painting. The challenge of creating a visually compelling image is integral to her process; the final work is a result of a delicate balance between deliberate formal decision-making informed by her background in art history and moments of intuition guided by her sensitivity to the materiality of paint.

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