Olan Montgomery is an identical twin originally from Georgia known for his acting work on The Blacklist: Requiem (2017), and Boardwalk Empire: Peg of Old (2011). Olan has supporting roles in feature films Green Dolphin (2018) directed by Christopher Kenneally, executive produced by Keanu Reeves, Sundance feature film Appropriate Behaviour (2014) directed by Desiree Akhavan, Hollywood Dirt (2017) directed by Tosca Musk, Alterscape (2018) directed by Serge Levin and "Haymaker directed by Nicholas Sasso produced by Andrew van den Houten. Olan and his twin brother starred in the 2016 American Film Institute Film Fest official selection short Ham Heads (2016) as conjoined twins directed by Efrén Hernández as well as Frankie: Italian Roulette (2015) which won the 2015 Oaxaca Film Fest in Mexico and the Nostro D'Argento in Rome in 2016. He has written, produced and several of his own short films Rush Call Clown (2016), Silence = (2017), Babies to the world (2017), Toggle (2017) and Al & Ollie (2017). Olan is also known for his fine art portraiture both for and of several noted personalities including Alan Cumming, Rufus Wainwright, Anne Hathaway, Susan Jaffe, Ethan Stiefel, Dominic West and Courtney Love. On March 3, 2008 Village Voice columnist Michael Musto wrote an article titled "Portrait Artist makes it Big by Upping the Subculture," concerning Olan's book of portraiture, "POP, Art inspired by New York's own subcultures from celebrity to subway something more through color & light", a collection of portraiture created from a combination of Olan's own photography combined with painting and plastic. Olan resides in New York.
Olan Montgomery, sometimes called only Olan, is an identical twin and American pop-artist and actor notable for his pop-art portraits of both celebrities and unknown people, and for his depictions of the Gay party scene. He employs several techniques including one where transfers his own photographs to canvas, in order to embue photographic portraits with color. Village Voice art critic Michael Musto described the artist as "upping the subculture".
