Evocative of Surrealism, Katherina Olschbaur’s captivating large-scale paintings characterized by an oddly muted neon tone depict colorful and chaotic scenes featuring humanesque figures and objects flowing into one another. Olschbaur’s subjects are often painted in fluid motions that blend seamlessly, making it difficult to perceive where one figure or shape ends and another begins. Bacchanal (2021), for example, shows a series of figures ebbing and flowing against a deep violet and magenta background. Two prominent pairs appear to be dancing or mid-stride, while another figure lays alone on the floor. Olschbaur’s works are held in the permanent collections of institutions including the Belvedere Museumand the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2021, she was selected for Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency in Dakar. (Artsy)

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