Currently a resident of New York City, Olga Spiegel came to America in 1964 from England where she studied at the St. Martin School of the Arts. Born in France, she was brought up in Belgium and studied at the Academie Royal des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1973 she spent a summer learning the old masters technique in Austria at the School of Fantastic Realism in instruction by artist Ernst Fuchs. Her paintings have been exhibited in Europe and America.

Spiegel's point of view focuses on the psychological and chemical interactions of form, moods, and settings. These interactions, says Spiegel, "bring out images of a universal language, reveal spiritual spaces, mind projections, and the collective unconscious in touch with a finer network of galactic nerve."

Stephen P. Breslow, a contributor to Arts Magazine describes paintings from the series of works called "Crystal Cities," created in 1982:

Olga Spiegel's futuristic diamondlike, multitiered cities, underneath skies teeming with a multitude of various-sized moons, her architectural phantasmagorias rise layer after layer, chiseled plane after chiseled plane, into a host of spires, columns, and strangely shaped turrets, decidedly geometric with innumerable prismlike surfaces reflecting and refracting light seemingly infinitely. Much like the earlier Italian Futurists, Boccioni and Marinetti, she constructs immensely complex temples of light and angle, interlocking with machinelike precision, speed, and power. These "cities" express her fantastical vision of an extraterrestrial, supertechnological wizardry.

For information about Spiegel's work call (212) 925-0511.

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