Alex Olson

Alex Olson (b. 1978) lives and works in Los Angeles. Through the use of color, layering, and texture – both in terms of three-dimensional impasto and implications within visual patterning – Olson  controls surface tensions in at once a meticulous and playful manner. Layers appear to peel away to reveal other layers, suggesting several paintings embedded in one, some of which remain forever concealed. Pulling from both historical abstraction and contemporary design, Olson’s paintings often consider the juggling act between the eye and the brain to parse out evidence and desires, sources and analysis, past and present. Viewers can navigate through perception and designation, taking cues within and between works.