About

STATEMENT

I create site-specific installations that explore ideas on existence, time and the everyday. I am interested in constructing environments that invite the viewer into a heightened awareness of themselves and their surroundings.  I aim to offer contemplation through an experience with liminality.

My work is often large-scale to create an overwhelming presence. Using monumental size, my work explores the idea of phenomenology–how what we experience leads to an understanding of reality.  I point to themes of transcendence to realize the possibilities of the present moment.  I believe the memory of an encounter can reverberate into how the day-to-day can be actualized.  

Ultimately, I look to establish critical conversations around the immediacy of time and place. I am invested in the narrative of a space and how my perspective contributes to its ongoing history. My work suggests that determinate belief can be precarious; instead, ongoing observation is a way of knowing. Reflection is invited within a truer shift into ambiguity, disruption and the ineffable.

BIOGRAPHY

Olga Lah is a Korean-American artist, born and raised in the Los Angeles area. She currently works in Long Beach, CA. She received a double B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California at Riverside. She has exhibited extensively including at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Los Angeles International Airport; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA;  ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Korea Times, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, KCET Artbound and Los Angeles Magazine.