Works
  • Head Over Heels
    Marianna Olague
    Head Over Heels, 2024
  • Quemando Tiempo
    Marianna Olague
    Quemando Tiempo , 2024
  • Quemando Tiempo II
    Marianna Olague
    Quemando Tiempo II, 2024
  • Somewhere in El Paso
    Marianna Olague
    Somewhere in El Paso, 2024
  • A Home of Our Own
    Marianna Olague
    A Home of Our Own, 2023
  • H.O.R.S.E.
    Marianna Olague
    H.O.R.S.E., 2023
  • Onyx
    Marianna Olague
    Onyx, 2023
  • Quickening
    Marianna Olague
    Quickening, 2023
  • The Apprentice
    Marianna Olague
    The Apprentice, 2023
  • Zen Eddie
    Marianna Olague
    Zen Eddie, 2023
  • The Eddie
    Marianna Olague
    The Eddie, 2022
  • Mesa Hills
    Marianna Olague
    Mesa Hills, 2020
  • Blond Grass
    Marianna Olague
    Blond Grass, 2021
  • Figurative painting by artist Marianna Olague of a woman standing outside wearing sunglasses and a winter coat. Warm tones of red and off white.
    Marianna Olague
    La Linda, 2022
  • Virgen por el Gateway South
    Marianna Olague
    Virgen por el Gateway South, 2021
  • David Solo En El Parque
    Marianna Olague
    David Solo En El Parque, 2021
  • Por el Camino de Mount Cristo Rey
    Marianna Olague
    Por el Camino de Mount Cristo Rey, 2021
  • Customer Service Representative
    Marianna Olague
    Customer Service Representative, 2020
  • En Pleno Dia
    Marianna Olague
    En Pleno Dia, 2020
  • Memorial Park
    Marianna Olague
    Memorial Park, 2020
  • Battle Ink
    Marianna Olague
    Battle Ink, 2020
  • Roofero
    Marianna Olague
    Roofero, 2020
  • Amor Pequeno
    Marianna Olague
    Amor Pequeno, 2019
  • Todo Se Vuelve Alma
    Marianna Olague
    Todo Se Vuelve Alma, 2019
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Biography
Marianna Olague paintings are about living in the borderland desert of El Paso, Texas. She composes brilliantly hued portraits of friends and family, all natives of El Paso. Often viewed engaged in ordinary activities, her subjects know firsthand what it’s like to live in the often harsh environment of the Mexican border. Ever present in her work, the border or frontera, appears as a fence or rock wall offering protection and privacy, but also delineates an inescapable socioeconomic condition. Despite the circumstances of lives nurtured in the barren desert and low-income Mexican-American neighborhoods, Olague’s narrative portraits open our eyes to the strong community and wild beauty found within
 
Marianna Olague holds a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of El Paso, El Paso, TX. Her work is in multiple private and public collections including the Rubin center for Visual Arts in El Paso, TX and Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Olague was awarded a Chinati Foundation Residency in 2021 and is a finalist in the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery. She lives and works in El Paso, Texas. Olague is represented by David Klein Gallery.
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