Olivia Marwell, Jonathan Edwards College

Olivia is a voracious thinker and maker. Her work has expanded dramatically beyond the photography she began with, to material explorations of her own body and collaged drawings, textiles, and open-ended experiments. The urgency of her themes, surrounding whiteness, fashion, femininity, bodies, and anxiety, is complemented by the care and nuance she brings to her mediums. She is committed to photography as a primary medium, and uses the lens to investigate its destabilizing, objectifying psychological effects, as well as the pressure exerted by an ever-expanding archive of casual jpegs on the young people growing up in its wake. Olivia asks hard questions in her work and challenges herself constantly.

Lisa Kereszi, Senior Critic and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Senior Critic Painting and Printmaking Department