Olson creates abstract works in gouache, watercolor, graphite, spray paint and oil paint, on paper and canvas. The artist describes her work as drawing on influences from the canon of art history ranging from Japanese scroll paintings to graffiti.
American art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer described Olson's work as depicting "the dynamic processes of nature with a precision, stability and concreteness that are traditionally reserved for the painting of inert, three-dimensional objects." Kramer says "the result of this concentrated attention to the nuances of nature is a pictorial style that’s at once highly abstract and persuasively realist in its fidelity to observed detail."
Critical reception
Hilton Kramer noted the artist's use of color to "generate a sense of energy and movement," as in the work Fiery Ocean of which he wrote, "swirling traces of light disport themselves in a ruby-red sea," calling the result "unfailingly original and compelling."
Solo exhibitions
2014 Beyond the Chains of Illusion, Berlin Art Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Legible Fiction, Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY
