Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
Iviva Olenick
(American, born 1975)
Sometimes, 2012
Iviva Olenick, Sometimes, 2012, embroidery on antique textile. 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
"I think of my work as an embroidered blog. I use fabric, thread, applique and hand embroidery to create small scale pieces with text and illustrations. Through my work, I comment on contemporary urban culture. I obsess over the anything-goes nature of NYC/Brooklyn dating."—Iviva Olenick