About
STATEMENT
I create site-specific installations that explore ideas on existence, time and the everyday. I am interested in constructing environments that invite the viewer into a heightened awareness of themselves and their surroundings. I aim to offer contemplation through an experience with liminality.
My work is often large-scale to create an overwhelming presence. Using monumental size, I explore the idea of phenomenology–how what we experience leads to an understanding of reality. I point to themes of transcendence in order to actualize the possibilities of the present moment. I believe the memory of an encounter can reverberate into how the day-to-day can be realized.
I look to establish critical conversations around the immediacy of time and place. I am invested in the narrative of a space and how my perspective contributes to its ongoing history. I suggest that determinate belief can be precarious; rather, ongoing observation is a way of knowing. I invite reflection within a truer shift into ambiguity, disruption and the ineffable.
BIOGRAPHY
Olga Lah is a Korean-American artist, born and raised in the Los Angeles area. She currently works Long Beach, CA. She received a double B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California at Riverside. She has exhibited extensively including at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Los Angeles International Airport; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA; ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Korea Times, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, KCET Artbound and Los Angeles Magazine. Her awards include an Artist Fellowship with the Arts Council for Long Beach, the Korea Arts Foundation of America Bienniel Award and the Goldman Fellowship for residency at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.