January 2012
Erik Olson : Space
January 5th - February 4th, 2012
Image:Erik Olson Earth, 2011 Oil on birch panel 72 x 84 inches.
Erik Olson
Skew Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition Space comprised of small, medium and large format paintings by artist Erik Olson. Following his highly successful Out of India series, Olson once again sets out to explore the unknown, this time expanding his artistic perspective to the scale of the solar system. Working from his studio in the Canadian Rockies Olson combines his personal view from a telescope with that of deep space NASA imagery, bringing the viewer up and out of the familiarity of Earth’s atmosphere into the weightlessness of space. At this massive scale the imagery becomes more minimal; primary forms and colours interact to reveal the fundamentals of pictorial space. With this new body of work Olson takes his audience into the grandness of the cosmos to the very edge of what can be seen and visualized.
