Thanks!

Well the year is almost over and what an exciting and emotional year. This year I applied for over 100 galleries, cafes, shops and any where who would show my work. Thank you to the fallowing places for giving me a chance, Purest Cafe, Aloft Hotel, Morpho Gallery, Good Neighborhood Pizzeria and Hash Restaurant. Thank you so much for your hospitality! Thanks to all my friends and family for all their support. I look forward for 2011!

guess who might be coming to breakfast??

No really? guess? Mayor Sam Adams. Well I invited him to go to Hash and eat some food and see my painting of him. I don't know that he will go but that be awesome if he did go! haha

Now Showing at Hash Restaurant!

You can see 9 of my painting at Hash Restaurant in Sellwood! Awesome food and awesome people. They are open 8am to 3pm they are open Tues to Sun and closed Mondays. Thier address is 8728 SE 17th Ave in Portland! Thanks!!

In need of a long rest...

This summer has been very busy for me so far. I was in Seattle a few weeks ago for a little R&R. Then I set up my art work at Good Neighbor Pizzeria and then the fallowing weekend I was in LA for a Power Summit host by the Gay and Lesbian Task Force on how to effectively organize and will Marriage Equality through the country. Then came Pride and canvassing and looking for a place to move too and packing and tomorrow my show and then Friday the move. Plus working graveyards. I'm flipping tired. So I called off of work tonight so I can get some rest. After all I can't be the host with the most with bags the size of cows under my eye balls or falling asleep during my show. So good night bloggers and I hope to see you all tomorrow!

Frankie~

"Lick lick my art...hole" -CSS

What a lovely line from one of my favorite bands. Now that I have your attention I thought I tell you all about my up coming art show at Good Neighbor Pizzeria. Its been showing all month long so far but I've been a little busy with trips to Seattle and LA and moving temporary to Oregon City. So if you are free this Thursday the 24th then come out to Good Neighbor Pizzeria on 800 NE Dekum Street (Dekum is like 7 or 8 blocks north of Alberta and close by MLK Blv.) from 7pm to 10pm and enjoy some pizza, beer and art by me. And I hope you enjoy my latest painting of "Sam Adams La Mayor de Portland" :)

Frankie

La update

Well allot has happen in the last few months. For once I am no longer jobless! So that means cash to paint! and a painting i have been doing. My first solo show was awesome and Aloft hotel were amazing host and I am very thankful for the opportunity to show my work there. I also got a chance to show at Morpho Gallery in Chicago. That was amazing as well and I might be showing there again this July. I have another solo show in June at Good Neighborhood Pizza next month and I will be post all the info on that soon. Last year was a rough year and I came out punching. This year started off good but uncertain but now the clouds have cleared. now if some one would inform the weather here in Portland that winter is over that would be awesome. :)

Frankie

2010

2010 is looking so far pretty good far as art goes. I think this will be an exciting time right now to be an artist and in Portland no less! I have been laying low fat as art goes in Portland until a few months ago. I wanted to study the art scene a little bit before I jump in. I find that Portland locals are nice but they fear the change that outsiders can bring to their city and the art scene here is clear proof of this.

In Phoenix for a time it was hard for local artist to get into the Galleries of Scottsdale or even Phoenix. Local art didn't sale and if you wanted to show you had to make a name for your self some where else before you could show. Then local artist bought old houses in the Willow and Roosevelt Districts and made new rules for the game. Local only. That was good and all but what the snob galleries in Scottsdale did was make local Phoenix artist want to be better then what they were. They made them step outside the box and create their own space and step a way from this bushi bull shit art that only a corporate whore would ever want to buy for his office on the 32 floor of his empire of greed.

So back to Portland...I think the Portland art scene is facing a rut. One the Economy is horrible just just here in Portland but across the US but it's hit the city pretty hard. Two I think we have a divide in the city between Pearl District's art scene and every where else in the city. I think the Pearl district might be new foam of hell.

Truth is the Pearl needs to be what it is and so do all the other districts. I Love Bell Mont, Sellwood, Hawthorn, Alberta, Mississippi and Multnomah Village. All very different from one another. And there are more art districts that I have not even named. I think we need to embrace the differences and stop trying to make this city one giant clone Pearl.

So as an artist we need to embrace that things change and we should accept that as new and different people come things changed. Lets embrace cultures and use the things that make us different are the adjectives but the now is the same...human. We are all just humans.

So you want change then be the change you want to see. And I want to see more diversity in this city and in doing so I'm going to attempt to diversified my style of painting and embrace new ways and explore and experiment and just grow like a tree.

Yesterday I was a 4 and today I am a 5...

Yesterday I participated in a focus group about adds and commercials for Apollo College. We had a homework assignment to write out a typical weeks day for us and to bring in a picture of something or someone you are most proud of. Everyone brought in pictures of their kids, lovers and family. I brought in a fl yer for my first ever solo art show, that is today.

I got sort of a hint from our speaker and everyone that family is everything. I not too close to my family and they and most of my good friends are far away. I haven't been in a relationship in over a year. And to make matters even better I was told that day by the man that I would have stayed in Phoenix if i knew he loved me, that he loved me and that he is moving in with his boyfriend.

It was kind of a many punches below the belt kind of day. But what I realised after a nice chat with a friend is...

That my lovers come and go. Kids at some point let their parents down and love is not guarantee till to death do you part but what I create with my bare hands will out last any relationship I ever have. My past lovers can take their love away, break my heart and disappoint me but no man and no person on earth can take what i create. Art will out last us all.


(PS this is a disclaimer that though many people have awesome families and lovers I have either but what I have I created from my hands I will never worry about that leaving me or hurting me.)

Aloft Hotel Show Case

I am now showing at the lovely Aloft Hotel in Portland, Oregon. This is my first solo show ever! I am very excited and I hope everyone can join me for my Artist Reception that Aloft is throwing for me. It's Wednesday January 20th, 2010 from 6:30PM to 8PM at Aloft Hotel Lobby/Wxyz bar at the hotel. There will be refreshment and wine served. The Aloft Hotel is near the PDX Airport and across from the Cascades Max Station.

Thank you for every one's support to help me make this dream a reality.

Frankie Olivo

The Virgin Mary Series (For this blog entry read from the bottom on up)

The Virgin of Fixation 2009:

The Virgin has been in the spot light for years. A woman we know little about other the her name was Mary and 14 she was married to Joesph and was knocked up with God's seed. And gave birth to a baby boy she named Jesus. We can't but help but to be fixated on her. She was a mother symbol for so many people in the world and myself included.

The Virgin of Hope 2009:

Even though her son was now dead she had the courage to go on. She had to hope that her son knew what he was doing and that there would be some hope in his actions. After the Crucifixion of my dream I found the courage to hope for the future. There just has to be hope or there is nothing left worth living for.

The Virgin of Broken Dreams 2008

I'm Sure the Virgin Mary had dreams her self of what she wanted in life and her son and I imagine the Crucifixion of her son was not one of them. And like her I had a dream and someone I thought loved Crucified that dream.

The Virgin of Deception 2007:

This was the first Virgin I did in this series. My Virgins are not a attract on the Catholic Church or on the Virgin her self. Its more about seeing her as a real human being rather like a religious figured. How much do we really know about her other then she was knocked up at 14 by god? This Virgin of Deception is about how we might see people or situation but can you rise above to see past the Deception. I'm sure Joseph had to really think about if his new wife was a tramp or blessed by God. For me I think of her as a young girl who had no choice in her marriage to Joseph and or choose this so called "Miracle Birth".

The Impact

I come from a family of 9 kids and I growing up there was only 3 of the 9 kids in the house. 6 of the kids came from Dad's other marriage and they were not around much. Growing up I was closer to my sister Roxanne more then my Brother Armando. My father ran out my Brother Armando when both my sister and I were young. For it was for a wile just Roxanne and me. We went to hell and back. We would hold each other and cry in the closet as my parent would argue and throw things around the house at each other. My sister was 17 when she got pregnant and she had a little girl named Anisa. My sister and I remained close still and I even helped her with Anisa. My sister meet a man named Mike and they got married and had a baby girl named Alexis. After our Mom died and many years later she left her husband and slowly became a person I would not know any more. She became a liar and thief and went to jail. Almost lost everything. She ended up having two little boys with a man who was a coke addict and thief that broke into my apartment and our Father's house. It's been over a year since I have spoken to my sister. To me the sister I grew up with and was close too is long dead and what is left is a spineless evil person that left an awful Impact on her family. Most whom today no longer talk to her.