Megan Olson

Born in Connecticut, Works in New York, NY

BIO

Megan Olson was born in Connecticut, and received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. She was discovered by a gallery while attending the AICAD NY Studio Program in 2000. Olson had her first solo exhibition in 2001 while she was still an undergraduate. Since then her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, including New York, Berlin, and Seoul. She lives on the Lower East Side and works in Brooklyn.

You’ll like Megan if: you often find yourself taking pictures of graffiti and street art in the city

In my work, you may see technical elements ranging from materials used in scroll paintings to the glazing techniques of the Baroque; hyper-realistic detail of Surrealism to the looseness of Abstract Expressionism, as well as the forms, colors, and materials of Graffiti – which I consider very much a continuation of the formal and social canon of art historical painting. I study the previous movements of art and work to develop an aesthetic of new painting that builds upon that history.

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