About The Artist

Olivia Lutz is a painter whose work explores landscape, memory, longing, and transience. Working primarily in oil and charcoal, she creates atmospheric images of fields, mountains, tree lines, animals, and figures that hover between observation and recollection.

Often beginning from photographs, familiar places, or fleeting impressions, Lutz is drawn to landscapes encountered in passing: a view from a car window, a place caught in motion, an image held briefly before it recedes. The blur evokes the sensation of looking while moving, and the desire to remain with what cannot be held.

Her paintings transform the landscape into an ambiguous space marked by stillness, distance, and absence. Animals and figures appear as emotional anchors within these shifting landscapes. With their heightened senses and instinctive attention, animals suggest ways of perceiving beyond ordinary sight, creating moments of connection, searching, and orientation within places that feel intimate yet inaccessible.

Lutz received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College. She lives and works in New York City and Vermont. 
 

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