Olga Ziemska
Ohio

www.olgaziemska.com
 

Sculptor and installation artist Olga Ziemska was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1976 and currently resides in an artist live-work space downtown by the lake. In 2000, she received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and also attended a year of Master Studies in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Ziemska is a recipient of many scholarships and grants including a Fulbright Fellowship to Poland and a Creative Workforce Fellowship, which is generously funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. She has participated in several residencies abroad including the Centre of Polish Sculpture, Poland and Galerie Klatovy/Klenova, Czech Republic. In 2007, she was selected as the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist by MOCA Cleveland. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, with work reviewed in publications such as Sculpture Magazine. Currently, Ziemska is completing a large-scale outdoor public sculpture commission entitled “Flock of Hands” for the city of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
 
 

Ziemska, mines nature, philosophy, and science in search of connection points among the physical forces, biological structures, and mystical underpinnings of existence. She often attempts to make visible those concepts or properties that are indiscernible to the naked eye, such as cellular formations or magnetism. By making visual associations between the visible and the invisible—or the microscopic and the macrocosmic—Ziemska poetically underscores the interrelatedness of all things.