Olga Armand Ugon

I have known Olga Armand Ugon for a few years. I've seen her painting. Actually, I have seen her enjoy painting; I have seen her suffer while painting; in short, I have verified her creativity in action and I am happy to say that she belongs to that group of people who think, reflect and express themselves by doing.
She saw then, the need for expansion as one of the characteristics of her work. Medium and large surfaces always suited her work better than small ones. In the latter, she would feel constricted, suffocated.

Her painting should give way to his ample gesture, although, as she controls proportions very well, she also allows space on her paintings for small pictures and stains.
This amplitude could be applied, in another sense, to her chromatic subject, which goes from liquid to dense and lumpy.

The restless spirit of Olga Armand Ugon cannot be comfortable imposing limits, thus, the painting surface is a witness of the struggle to organize these expansive and free impulses.

We could say that her personality needs to be reflected still in how she works with the coloring, since she has to move also between the random (blasting, broad strokes) and position, size, color, of them in the basic plane, because that cont...

Diseñadora de Modas egresada del Instituto Catala en Barcelona, España.

Workshops
1998 Taller de Clever Lara
1989 Taller de Círculo de Bellas Artes
1990 1991 Taller de Guillermo Fernández
2007 retomo la pintura en el Taller de Gerardo Acuña y Clever Lara

2007 Colectiva en La Spezia
Colectiva en El Club Alemán
Colectiva en Libertad Libros
2008 Colectiva en Libertad Libros
Cabildo de Montevideo ( 3 artistas)
Colectiva en la Embajada Alemana
Obra seleccionada en el Concurso de Miradas 2008 de Visión Echague
2009 Colectiva Club de Golf
Colectiva La Spezia
Colectiva Café Bonafide
Individual Café Bonafide
Obra premiada en el Concurso Isusa, exhibición en el MAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo)
Colectiva Remate para Fundación Reaching U Nueva York
Colectiva y remate para la Fundación Teletón
2010
Colectiva Galería Aramayo Punta del Este
Obra seleccionada en el concurso Patria Gaucha
Obra seleccionada para la Convocatoria de Arte Abstracto en la Galería Palermo H,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colectiva en la Galería Forma Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colectiva en Caellum Gallery Nueva York
Individual en Galería Diana Saravia
2011, 2012 y 2013 Individual en Lanzaro Acle Punta del Este
2015 Solo exhibition in Washington DC BID
2016 Solo exhibition in New York Consulado Uruguayo
2016 "Art without borders" Art League Gallery New York
2017 my art book release ¨IMPULSO Y OBSESION¨