Grey Garden

Grey Garden

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30x40

Prism Poppy

Prism Poppy

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48x72

Dessert Rose

Dessert Rose

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48x72

Suncatcher

Suncatcher

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48x72

Pastel Ghost

Pastel Ghost

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

59x74

Midnight Rose

Midnight Rose

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

54x84

Always Home

Always Home

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

48x72

All The Flowers

All The Flowers

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

30x40

Algernon

Algernon

Acrylic

48x60

Terrible Cannibals

Terrible Cannibals

Acrylic

36x24

The Vivid Tulips...

The Vivid Tulips...

Acrylic

72x48

Monse

Monse

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

24x36

Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers

Acryllic

24x18

Grey Garden Grey Garden
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Grey Garden

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

30x40

  • Call Me:

    Grey Garden

  • Story:

    Dank Fresh
    Dulled Green
    Travel and Adventure
    Fancy Possibilities

  • Flowers:

    Captured Campanulas

  • Enjoy With:

    Smoky Tea
    Smell of Concrete
    Couture Dreams
    Pure Musk
    Wet Asphalt
    Steamy Nights
    Lightning Smells
    Kissing Shoulder Blades

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Prism Poppy Prism Poppy
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Prism Poppy

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

48x72

  • Call Me:

    Prism Poppy

  • Story:

    Violat and Magenta
    Passages
    Meditative Stares
    Pulsing Energy
    Diary
    Long Country Road

  • Flowers:

    Upstate Lillies
    Roses
    Campanula
    California Magenta
    Petunias
    Blue Orchids

  • Enjoy With:

    Gummy Bears
    Lava Lamps
    Shared Dreams
    Lightning Across the Sky
    Ozone
    Sugar Milk
    Trumpet Playing
    Fragmented Memories

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Dessert Rose Dessert Rose
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Dessert Rose

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48x72

  • Call Me:

    West Coast Rose

  • Story:

    Rubberbands Stretching
    A Steady, Deep Beat
    Angels
    Freedom Reigns

  • Flowers:

    Bodega Roses
    Lilies
    Gladiola
    Orchids

  • Enjoy With:

    Thoughtful Drinks
    Day Time Fires
    Face Paint
    Ocean Gazes
    Adventures
    VW Vans
    Salty Skin
    The Smell of Burnt Matches
    Soft Electric Guitar

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Suncatcher Suncatcher
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Suncatcher

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48x72

  • Call Me:

    Suncatcher

  • Story:

    Fuzzy Clarity
    Smell of Warm Sun
    More Possibilities Than You Can Imagine
    Seeking Reassurance

  • Flowers:

    Wilted Roses
    Fake Cherry Blossoms
    Stolen Poppies
    Homegrown Morning Glories

  • Enjoy With:

    Butterfly Kisses
    Warm Hugs
    Huge Smiles
    A Comfortable Smile
    An Easy Chair
    Good Playlists
    Cracking Records
    Full Lungs

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Pastel Ghost Pastel Ghost
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Pastel Ghost

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

59x74

  • Call Me:

    Ghost

  • Story:

    Illusions
    Wide Stares
    Hovering Vistas
    Room to Move

  • Flowers:

    Lilies
    Homegrown Gladiolas
    Hosta Flowers
    Gladiola
    Blue Flowers from a Hawaiian Shirt

  • Enjoy With:

    Bright Sunshine
    Poignant Drinks
    Sourpatch Kids
    Dawns Light
    A Breeze from Across The Country
    Bent Stories
    Coney Island
    Rockaway Beach

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Midnight Rose Midnight Rose
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Midnight Rose

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54x84

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Always Home Always Home
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Always Home

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

48x72

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All The Flowers All The Flowers
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All The Flowers

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

30x40

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Algernon Algernon
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Algernon

Acrylic

48x60

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Terrible Cannibals Terrible Cannibals
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Terrible Cannibals

Acrylic

36x24

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The Vivid Tulips... The Vivid Tulips...
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The Vivid Tulips...

Acrylic

72x48

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Monse Monse
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Monse

Acrylic, spray paint, pencil, sharpie

24x36

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Pink Flowers Pink Flowers
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Pink Flowers

Acryllic

24x18

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Contact Details

Email: benolsonstudio@gmail.com

PHONE: 612 877 1764

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Ben Olson

About Ben Olson

Ben’s work is based upon his relationships with his subjects. The content of his paintings is conveyed by the closeness that he shares with them and the fictional world he places them in.

The simple form of plywood and canvas are transformed with layers of colorful, dripping, textural acrylic paint that make the viewer feel the vitality of the moment in every stroke. One cannot help but imagine the brush that caressed the painting a thousand times, adding layer upon layer of paint, changing the look, the form, the situation of reality until its molded into something so beautiful the viewer is not sure weather to laugh or cry.

A common theme Ben’s work is the use of a painting as a personal doorway, cracked for a brief moment but captured forever, allowing the viewer to experience a full range of human emotion that happens in a millisecond and bring to it there own desires, biases, wants and dreams. The paintings are revealing and often personal and the viewer cannot help but to have a moving experience, a drop of the stomach, a missed, skipped heartbeat or a moment of bliss.

Through vivid colors of blazing yellow, scarlet red and lollipop pink juxtaposed with cerulean blue, prism violet, and emerald green each painting becomes a jewel in which Ben challenges the viewer to suspend their views and explore what happens between fact and fiction…to look closely and to see more, brining the sensation of closing your eyes to block the sunshine only to discover hot bright color filled with vibrant patterns.

The images serve as portraits of himself and his muses yet act as sounding boards for the viewer to place themselves, examining the threads of truth, of human nature and more often then not, the fictional life that humans surround themselves in. Each painting is created with intensity, love and compassion…labored over and intimately constructed. The layers of paint, color, texture and emotion become the facts, the facts become fiction, the fiction becomes reality, the reality becomes truth. This truth begins to unravel bit by bit, leaving the viewer suspended between ruby red and sunshine yellow.

Ben’s work is a bold salutation to life. On the surface there is a beautiful simplicity about his enquiry into the human form, which once inspected more closely, begs the viewer to feel the psychological aspect of each piece, every detail, every moment of bliss, of sadness, every tear that really wasn’t there, every shade of sky blue used to set a mood of agitation rather than a sense of calm, and then quietly but surely slip ecstatically into that shade of citron to bring the viewer back to the beautiful feeling of pure joy. The final twist of beauty is that each time the viewer comes back to a piece they leave with their own new color-drenched truth.

Ben Olson currently lives and works in the Minneapolis area with his Wife and 2 Boys.

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