![Olivia Kim: <i>Look,</i>, 2019. Oil and Ink on Canvas. (35 x 46 inches).](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Look_2019_1-Olivia-Kim_Edited_1500px-1038x800.jpg)
Olivia Kim, Look, 2019. Oil and Ink on Canvas, 35 x 46 inches.
Olivia Kim is an abstract colorist. She mixes premade oil colors from tubes to create colors that are appropriate for her paintings. A mix of Alizarin Crimson and Viridian Hue creates black. A mix of that black with Titanium White becomes purple. With those three basic colors she mixes other colors as needed.
![Olivia Kim, Self Portrait Pt. III, 2018. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inches.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Self-Portrait-Pt.-III_2018_2-Olivia-Kim_1500px.jpg)
Olivia Kim, Self Portrait Pt. III, 2018. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inches.
![Green painting with a green collaged face and an orange vertical stripe.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Untitled3_2019_1-Olivia-Kim_1500px-600x800.jpg)
Olivia Kim, Untitled 3, 2019. Oil and color pencil on wood panel, 12 x 16 inches.
![Detail of red painting with a collaged face with hair flowing the wind.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Untitled-4_2020_1-Olivia-Kim_Editedv3_1500px-e1590518818856-1200x626.jpg)
Olivia Kim Untitled 4 ,2020. Oil, acrylic and ink on wood panel, 24 x 12 inches.
She records each color formula in a notebook for future reference. To date she has mixed 46 unique colors. Whatever her subject matter and whatever her content, Olivia Kim is foremost, an abstract colorist.
![Painting with an orange upper half, pink lower half, and a pink and black rectangle in the middle.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Body-Part_2018_1-Olivia-Kim_Editedv3_1500px-e1590518844594-647x800.jpg)
Olivia Kim, Body Part, 2018. Oil on canvas, 14 x 18 inches.
![Brown painting with a collage of a face on the right hand side.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Self-Portrait-Pt.-I_2018_1-Olivia-Kim_Editedv2_1500px-1069x800.jpg)
Olivia Kim, Self Portrait Pt. I, 2018. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches.
![Olivia Kim: 46 Shades of Love, 2020. Oil on Canvas on Wood Board. (36 x 91 inches).](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_46-Shades-Of-Love_2020_1-Olivia-Kim_1500px-e1590518888537.jpg)
Olivia Kim, 46 Shades of Love, 2020. Oil on Canvas on Wood Board, 36 x 91 inches.
![Olivia Kim, Endless, 2020. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Olivia_Kim_Endless_2020_1-Olivia-Kim_Editedv2_1500px-1075x800.jpg)
Olivia Kim, Endless, 2020. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.