Olivia DiVecchia works with the language of mapmaking and architecture to develop systems  of meaning-making whose logics are followed through multiple points of mutation. This  process has led her to make, among other things, intensely layered mesh-like line drawings,  photographic installations in destabilizing relation to architecture and photo/drawing hybrids  using her own hair. At the center of her work is an enduring interest in the failure of meaning as  we know it; in the way that the singular presence of things is dissimulated in the meanings they  are understood by; in opacity as a general condition. 

Her work plays with what a world initiated by this haunting can be. With the way in which  reaching to know is inherently colonial, all too easily opening a quantitative, extractive  orientation to the world. This dynamic, between what she names opacity and the unwieldy  desire to grid it out, is the core interest of her practice. 

She received a BFA in studio art from Southern Methodist University in 2010 and an MFA in  studio art from Hunter College in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in both Dallas and New  York, most recently in NOTHNG OF THE MONTH CLUB, an exhibition ‘under the sign’ of Ray  Johnson at Off Paradise (NY, 2021) and Some Kind of Mind Thing also at Off Paradise (NY,  2022). She was an artist in residence at Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency (Jan/Feb  2022). She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

IG: @odivecchia