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 * 1.Biography[edit source]
 * 2.Style
 * 3.Playboy
 * 4.Success
 * 5.Further reading[edit source]
 * 6.References[edit source]

Biography[edit source]
Despite being born in Long Beach, California in 1948, Olivia spent most of her childhood in the east coast. She attended the New York School of Visual Arts in 1967, working various unique job to pay rent. Olivia resided in New York City's Soho neighborhood from 1970 to 1974, creating Minimalist paintings before creating her more well-known pin-up art style paintings, despite having a childhood fascination with drawing the woman body. She was one of the new artists introduced in the Second Annual Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She was also presented as one of 18 new artists in the "Tenth Anniversary, the Larry Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 1964-74" alongside established artists including Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella. Financial pressures, in 1975, forced Olivia to seek out commercial art work. She returned to her childhood skills of painting woman. She also worked for periodicals and paperback publishers, advertisements, and movie posters. She managed to attain regular work in 1974, involving painting erotic fantasies specifically for men's magazines. In 1977, she and partner Joel Beren started the O Card Company to publish Olivia's work as greeting cards, later on creating another company, Ozone Productions, Ltd., to sell and license Olivia's artwork. In 1987, they moved from Manhattan, New York to Malibu, California, where they reside as of 2011. Olivia's artwork has been shown in art galleries throughout the United States and Japan.

Style
Olivia is known for portraying the woman body in a sensual manner, including fluid lines, softly-toned hues, and prominent details, alluding to the strength of women. She first began her artistic journey through minimalist works and then began constructing illustrations of "black-and-white Aubrey Beardsley–inspired women," according to Olivia. Olivia transformed the patriarchal nature of the field she was in by taking woman bodies, and instead of objectifying them, celebrating them and overall female sexuality and self-expression. The women she portrayed in her artwork were self-assured and confident.

Playboy
Olivia states, "Playboy editor Marilyn Grabowski asked me to work with her on a pictorial and cover for the magazine" in 1985. Playboy called for Olivia and her husband to come to the mansion to assist with a shoot, leading to them becoming regulars at the mansion spanning for 30 years. She had a nice friendship with Hugh Hefner, claiming he respected her art and would further use it for the magazine, writing his own captions for it. She claims her experience with Playboy led to her mastering her craft of pinup, a difficult discipline to conquer, according to Olivia.

Success
Her works have appeared in exhibits, galleries, and museums, such as the Spoke Art Gallery and the Corey Helford Gallery. A multitude of her work have been auctioned off, varying from $60 USD to $21,510 USD based on the medium and size of the pieces. Her best selling art piece, Two of a Kind, sold for a record of $21,510 USD in 2011 at the Heritage Auctions, New York. Some of the other exhibitions she has been included in art Hello Kitty, Lucky 13 Anniversary Group Show: Pop Surrealism & New Figurative, and Art Collector Starter Kit V at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Additionally Of Fins and Feathers in the Spoke Art Gallery in NY, Olivia De Berardinis and Jordu Schell: Beauties Beasts and Baby Tattoo: Carnival of Astounding Art at the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, CA, and Baby Tattooville: Local Love and Sideshow: Baby Tattoo 2013 in the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, CA.

Further reading[edit source]

 * Beauties Beasts, by Olivia De Berardinis and Jordu Schell, (Street Date: Feb 1, 2017), ISBN 978-1-61404-017-0
 * Malibu Cheesecake: The Pinup Art of Oliva, 2011, ISBN 0-929643-30-5
 * Bettie Page by Olivia, 2006, ISBN 0-929643-25-9
 * American Geisha: The Art Of Olivia III, 2003, ISBN 0-929643-15-1
 * Cheesecake Chronicles Volume 1: Art of Olivia, 2000, ISBN 0-929643-12-7
 * Second Slice: Art of Olivia II, 1997, ISBN 0-929643-07-0
 * Let Them Eat Cheesecake: The Art Of Olivia, 1993, ISBN 0-929643-06-2
 * The Great American Pin-Up, by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel, ISBN 3-8228-1701-5