Raids on the Inarticulate By: David Olivant

Raids on the Inarticulate
David Olivant
August 26 - September 12, 2025
Reception: August 29, 5-7pm

Strata Gallery presents Establish Artist Member solo exhibition, Raids on the Inarticulate by New Mexico based artist David Olivant. The exhibition opens August 26th and runs through September 12th, with a special reception on August 29th from 5-7pm.

David Olivant’s imagery is centered on the fundamental existential crises that define our humanity. Is our species capable of the necessary moral energy to reinvent itself from the ground up and to what extent is art the driver of such an effort? Olivant seeks an art that fights its way out of and through history, finding meaning in suffering and the fraught attempt to “complete” each other through fundamental difference.

Olivant stated, “In a time when compromise, complacency, confusion, complicity and the hegemony of the couch increasingly govern our actions I hope to point the finger as much at myself as at others in the fraught attempt to make historically and humanly answerable art despite circumstances.”

David Olivant received his MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Brooklyn, Dusseldorf, Wuppertal, and New Delhi. His book “Bakhtin and the Prospect of a Methodology for Rethinking Visual Art” is scheduled for publication by Intellect Books, UK in Spring 2026.

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