Juxtapoz Magazine – Tortured Ecstasies: Katherina Olschbaur in Los Angeles

How to ignore a show titled Tortured Ecstasies? Check out the upstairs space of Nicodim Gallery’s Los Angeles venue, currently presenting a solo exhibition by Katherina Olschbaur. Nine mostly large-scale oils on canvas demonstrate how the Austrian-born artist transforms her painstaking sketches into almost amorphous powerful creatures. Mythology and primal religion seem to spawn her striking, figure-based compositions.