Iviva Olenick

Tag: embroidery

  • Family Portrait

    In celebration of a 15th wedding anniversary, I created this family portrait, translating a snapshot into thread.   Pin It

  • Philadelphia Museum, Perelman Building Gift Shop

    Many thanks to Connie Thompson and Elisabeth Agro at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for including my work in a special gift shop associated with the “Craft Spoken Here” exhibit, on view from May 5–September 3rd, 2012. Here are the pieces I made specifically for the Museum.                …

  • Anne’s Open Studio in the Berkshires, Summer 2012

    Thanks to fellow artist and friend, Anne Mourier, in collaboration with Muriel Guepin, for hosting Anne’s Open Studio in the Berkshires, Featuring the artwork of: Anne Mourier, photographer and mixed media artist Painters John Prizeman and Megan Berk Sculptor Claudia Paneca Embroiderer Iviva Olenick 9 Yale Hill Road Stockbridge, Massachusetts Open Wednesday-Sunday, 2-7pm; July 4th – Labor…

  • Brooklyn Arts Council

        Thanks to Courtney Wendroff for including 11 of my “post-its” in “Funny Ha Ha” at the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), 111 Front Street, Suite 218, Brooklyn, NY, on view from March 1 through July 27, 2o12. Ernest Concepcion, Beth Krebs and Katy Higgins are featured in this exhibit, too. Pin It

  • Muriel Guepin Gallery

    Many thanks to Muriel Guepin Gallery, who has shown my work for the past few years. Muriel really gets my sense of humor and aesthetic sensibility. I am lucky to be working with her. Pin It

  • 61 Local

        61 Local in Boerum Hill (or is it Cobble Hill?), Brooklyn, at 61 Bergen Street, is like a home away from home for me, thanks to the lovely, patient, and talented staff, including Dave Liatti, owner, and Anne Mourier, designer, who commissioned me to make embroideries for the nine sconces lining the interior.…

  • Pocket Square Proposal

    This story is one of my favorites. A friend asked me to recreate in embroidery a love note he’d written for his girlfriend and left on the bathroom mirror late one night. He gave me a handkerchief, and I set to work. The resulting piece became part of his proposal to her. They are now…

  • Wedding gift

    This piece was commissioned by the friend of the newly-wed couple to congratulate them and celebrate their now formalized union.   Pin It

  • Newborn Welcome

    Upon the birth of my oldest friend’s daughter, she asked me to make something to commemorate the occasion. I looked through all of the online photos of her new daughter, and found one to use as inspiration for an embroidery. The base fabric is an antique lace. I think it may have been a pillow…

  • Love

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  • Safeline

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  • Yes

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  • My ethnicity is Brooklyn

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  • Peter Pan

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  • Your Thoughts

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