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ERIK OLSON
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Image: detail: Escape Velocity 2011
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Raised in cities including Calgary, Nairobi and Boston, Erik Olson is an artist and graduate of the Emily Carr Institute (bachelor's degree 2007). Since 2006 he has worked off and on with international artist Gordon Halloran to complete paintings in Italy as well as Millennium Park, Chicago and then again during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Olson has exhibited his paintings at the Art Gallery of Calgary, is represented by Skew Gallery and directed IDEAL, a temporary visual arts exhibition space in Calgary. He has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, Emma Lake and the Sanskriti Centre in New Delhi, India. Most recently, in 2010, he motorcycled across the diverse and rapidly changing landscape of India to inform a new series of paintings. His work is characterized by thick, loose brushstrokes that weave pictorial spaces into integrated systems informed by a sense of plastic, mass produced colour. His paintings can be found in private collections across North America and the UK as well as in the public collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
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