As an artist Anastasia is primarily motivated by an enduring fascination with all things old and peculiar. She spends a disproportionate amount of her time making collages and assemblages from a wide variety of found objects and imagery, drawing inspiration from (among other things) the history of science & astronomy, mysticism, art history, Victorian ephemera, and industrial decay (i.e. just about anything old and rusty).
Anastasia’s artwork may also be seen on Facebook, Instagram, and on the walls of the Adirondack Artists Guild in Saranac Lake, NY, of which she has been a member since 2016.
Solo & Joint Exhibits
Adirondack Artists Guild, July 2022
Adirondack Artists Guild, May 2019
BluSeed Studios, September 2017 (with John Cullen)
Adirondack Artists Guild, July 2017
View, April/May 2017
NorthWind Fine Arts, March 2017
Lake Placid Center for the Arts, January 2017 (with Carl Rubino)
Pendragon Theatre, July 2016
Group Exhibits
ADK ArtRise, Saranac Lake NY, October 2022
Corscaden Barn Gallery, Keene Valley NY, August 2018
"Plastic Madness / Locura del Plastico," BluSeed Studios, August 2018
SEABA Art Hop, September 2017
Awards
Best in Show, NorthWind Fine Arts Juried Show, 2019
Honorable Mention, Lake Placid Center for the Arts Juried Show, 2018
Best in Show, Shirt Factory "Imagine" Juried Show, Glens Falls, NY, 2017
Best in Show, NorthWind Fine Arts Juried Show, 2016
Best in Show, Lake Placid Center for the Arts Juried Show, 2016
First Place, 3D Category, Masters Division, View Adirondack Central Art Show, 2016
Honorable Mention, Adirondack Artists Guild Juried Show, 2015
Best in Show, Lake Placid Center for the Arts Juried Show, 2014
Press
Cut & Paste: Collages by Anastasia Osolin, Press-Republican, June 23, 2022
August art show in Keene Valley:
Corscaden Barn Gallery wraps up season with 'Illuminations 2"
Press-Republican, August 22, 2018
Out of obscurity: Saranac Lake artist uses found materials to create assemblages
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 28, 2018
Local artist’s creative mind to produce new show at Guild
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 6, 2017
Joint art exhibit for Osolin, Rubino at the LPCA
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Jan. 5, 2017
Artists pay it forward
Press-Republican, Jan. 13, 2017
Some assembly required
SaranacLake.com, April 13, 2016
Artists’ Guild to host post-renovation opening Friday
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, May 5, 2016
Regional Juried Art Show winners announced by NorthWind gallery
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Nov. 17, 2016
Anastasia Osolin to Join Adirondack Artists Guild
Art in the Adirondacks, Apr. 13, 2016
Originally from the Washington DC area, Anastasia Osolin has a B.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she studied painting and fell in love with the Dada and Surrealist art movements, especially the work of Joseph Cornell and Remedios Varo.
After art school, her devotion to her other great love--books--led to an apprenticeship in bookbinding and restoration. Since 2000 Anastasia has worked as a freelance specialist to the antiquarian book trade, giving new life to ailing books.