SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2006 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2006 Beverly Farms Branch library Gallery, Beverly, MA, BCC Grant 2005 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2004 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2004 Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2003 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2002 South End Open Studios, Wareham St. Studio #18, Boston, MA 2001 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2001 Kingston Gallery (Center Room), Boston, MA 2001 HallSpace, Boston, MA 1997 Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 1994 Hardie Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 1992 Maliotis Gallery, Hellenic College, Brookline, MA 1991 Harvey & Company Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, MA 1991 Richards Gallery, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 1990 Balch Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 Art Complex Museum, Consequences of Geometry, 3 artists, Duxbury -Curator: Craig Bloodgood 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NYU, small works, New York, NY -Juror: Jim Kempner, Director,Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY Marcia Wood Gallery, Luxe, Calme et Volupte’, Atlanta, Georgia - Curator: Joanne Mattera 2006 Essex Art Center, 13th Annual Juried Show -Juror: Brian Allen, Director, Addison Gallery of American Art Making It New, Montserrrat Colege of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA -curators: Leonie Bradbury, Director, Montserrat Art Gallery; Adele Travisano Danforth Museum of Art Annual Members’ Show, Framingham, MA -Jurors: Leslie Brown, Photographic Resource Center, Nina Nielsen, Nielsen Gallery, John Stomberg, Williams College Museum of Art To the Power of 10, Ahimsa Gallery, Dorchester, MA In Color, Ahimsa Gallery, Dorchester, MA 2005 I Protest, HallSpace, Boston, MA Invited, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA Alumni Exhibit, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA Site Lines, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2004 Blue-All New England Competition, CAA, University Place Gallery, Cambridge -Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, DeCordova Museum The Eighteenth Annual South End Open Studios, Wareham St. Studio #16, Bost Town and Gown, 6 artists, Montserrat Gallery, Beverly, MA Montserrat Faculty Exhibition, Montserrat Gallery, Beverly, MA Generations ’04, A.I.R. GALLERY, New York, NY 2003 Variations on the Masters, Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA -Jurors: Susan Stoops, Worcester Art Museum; Roger Dunn Deep Listening, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA Wide Turns and Frequent Stops, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2002 New England New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, MA -Jurors: John Woodward, Woodward Gallery, NYC; Lisa Skrabec, Babcock Galleries, NYC; Catherine Redmond; and Anja Chavez, curator Inner Voices, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA Kingston@20, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA Large, 4 Artists, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA Generations III, A.I.R. GALLERY, New York, NY 2001 Alumni/ae Juried Exhibition, Tufts University Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, -Jurors: Miles Unger, New York Times critic; Elizaeth Stevens, Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, NYC;Edmund Gaither, Director,National Center ofAfro-AmericanArtists South End Open Studios, Wareham St. Studio #18, Boston, MA s e e 13 @ K i n g s t o n, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2000 Open Season, HallSpace, Boston, MA Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists at The Millennium, A.I.R. GALLERY, New York, NY, Invitational Charged, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 150 x 150, The Gallery @ Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA Artist Books, Cabot Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 1999 A.I.R. GALLERY's 3rd Biennial Exhibition, New York, NY. -Juror: Elizabeth Sussman, Whitney Museum, NY South End Open Studios, Wareham St. Studio #18, Boston, MA 1998 In the Spirit of Drawing, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, MA 1997 Fusion, WCA, Harbor Art Gallery, UMASS Boston, Boston, MA -Jurors: Sam Walker and Dorothy Simpson Krause 1996 National Juried Exhibition, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI -Juror: Diane Johnson 144 Square " International Small Painting Competition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT, -Juror: Robert Reed Boston Women’s Caucus for Art, Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 1995 25 Years/25 Artists, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, direct contact: The Abstract Edge, 3 artists, Craigin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA Venturing So Close, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY Views, Exhibition Salon of San Giovanni Battista, Viterbo, Italy 1994 Women In Abstraction, Gallery 28, Boston, MA Woman, Women's Caucus for Art, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. -Juror: Deborah Muirhead 75th National Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA -Juror: Lisa Messinger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Women in the Visual Arts 1994, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT -Juror: Lisa Messinger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 1993 Eleventh Annual National Greek Art Exhibition (First Prize), Greek Cultural Center, Springfield, MA SELECTED CRITICAL OVERVIEW “Straightforward and delicate, Olson’s paintings suggest what thirteenth-century-painter Cimabue might have done had he been a color-field painter” - David Raymond, Art New England, December/January 2007 -"Another Boston painter, Rose Olson, has a quietly stunning show at Kingston Gallery...Olson has aptly used the minimalist form of stripe paintings to contain the mysteries of heat and cold, light and dark." - Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, Friday, May 14, 2004 "...these imges assert themselves as objects. That they possess a meticulous glaze only reaffirms their presence. Despite the seeming regularity of her orderly compositions, Olson does not close out experimentation, flexibility or gesture...One thinks of prisms when looking at Olson's work. There's a crystalline fracturing of color into constituent bands, and almost a gilding to many of her surfaces...That gilding serves the traditional purpose of claiming space for the sacred, though within Olson's modernist idiom that sipirtuality becomes universal rather than denominational." - Shawn Hill, artsMEDIA, May 2004 "Rose Olson's paintings temper mathematical precision with a sensual play of light and color...Her palette deliberately recalls glistening shades of nail polish, yet is handled with great restraint. The game seems to be in maintaining a meditative space with exuberant bursts of color...The effect is mesmerizing, the colored surface transmuting as one moves back and forth in front of the work." - Diana Gaston, Art New England, June/July 2003 "Looking more closely, the complexity and richness given to these stripes of color by Olson's thinly applied horizontal and vertical layers of paint reveal that within these stripes she has in fact delineated a deep emotional and meditative space." - Mary Bucci McCoy, Art New England, April/May 2003 LINKS www.kingstongallery.com www.geoform.net www.roseolson.com