For the next 10 days, leading up to The Cheaper Show's 10th annual one night art show, we're introducing you to 10 artists out of the 200 who will be showing their work, available to purchase for $200 a piece. Head curator, Jessica Delorme, has hand picked a range of artists she. Please note that these works we're showing you are not the pieces for sale, they are simply samples of the artists' work.
Third up is Erik Olson from Calgary.
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 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 the 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.
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.
Learn more about Erik and the other 199 artists in The Cheaper Show 10 on their at TheCheaperShow.com and be sure to come out to the show on June 25th.
