Olga Spiegel: Zero Gravity in the land of Pareidolia
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, APRIL 16, 6-8 PM
Olga Spiegel
Zero Gravity in the Land of Pareidolia
April 16, 2026 – May 9th, 2026
Crossing Art Gallery
559 West 23rd Street, New York
Olga Spiegel: Zero Gravity in the Land of Pareidolia
Exhibition Dates: April 16, 2026 – May 9th, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 2026, 6-8 PM EDT
Crossing Art Gallery
559 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10001
NEW YORK, NY — Crossing Art is pleased to announce Zero Gravity in the Land of Pareidolia, an upcoming solo exhibition and major retrospective by New York–based artist Olga Spiegel.
Spanning five decades, from the early 1970s to the present, the exhibition invites viewers into a meticulously rendered multiverse where biology, architecture, and science fiction converge. The exhibition includes fifteen large-scale canvases and two works on paper.
An accompanying catalog with a foreword by Carlo McCormick has been published in conjunction with the exhibition.
An exponent of Magical Realism, Olga spent the early years of her career between Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. She received academic training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium and St. Martin School in London, UK. In Vienna, the artist attended a seminar led by Ernst Fuchs, a distinguished Austrian Fantastic Realist painter. Spiegel honed her signature technical precision and developed an interest in Old Master’s technique. Spiegel continued to develop a singular artistic language shaped by her fascination with nature, technology, and occult practices.
Highlights of the exhibition include Ancient Future (2000), featuring towering, rose-hued arches and classical colonnades that dissolve into celestial voids. The work explores the tension between the permanence of human construction and the boundless nature of the cosmos. Are We There Yet? (2008) is an imposing yet intimate canvas filled with chrysalis-like forms, ocular motifs, and mythological hybrids. Spiegel’s use of the eye recurs throughout her work as a symbol of awakening and the interconnectedness of sentient life. Cosmic Women (1975), on view in the gallery window, is a subtle homage to female artists whose role in the development of Surrealism and Magical Realism has only recently received fuller recognition.
About the Artist
Born in France in 1943, Olga Spiegel studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London from 1962 to 1964. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States. She has lived and worked in New York, NY, since 1964.