Education
Oliver Arms attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1988 to 1991.
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He held his first solo exhibition at Western Project in Los Angeles in 2005, following with a show at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York in 2007. David Pagel, in his Los Angeles Times review for Arms"s third exhibition in 2008 at Western Project, states Arms"s work is an "eloquent essay on the most elemental aspects of the organic materiality of oil paint. Simultaneously fluid, crusty and ethereal, his primal pictures have one foot firmly planted in the primordial ooze and the other in the cultivated world of modernist abstraction.
lieutenant"s a feat that balances furious energy and strange serenity."
Arms continued with a solo exhibition at Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe in New York in 2010.
In April 2012, Arms showed a body of work for his second exhibition at Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe in New New York The Orange County Museum of Art included Arms"s work in "OC Collects", which ran from October 7, 2012 - January 1, 2013.
In 2013 Arms wrote and directed a short film "2013". Critic Mat Gleason called it an "Amazing and accurate send up of conceptual artists"
In January of 2014, Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe hosted Arms"s work concurrent with a Hans Hoffman exhibition.
