Erik Olson - Out of India

Erik Olson

March 17th - April 16th , 2011

Opening Reception: 6pm - 8pm, Mar. 17th

artist in attendance

Skew Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of paintings by emerging artist Erik Olson. This new series of work is the result of the sights, people and architecture observed during his six month motorcycle journey through the diverse and rapidly changing urban and rural landscapes of India. His journey took him from Mumbai to the southernmost tip of the sub-continent, before heading north through multiple rural landscapes and cities to New Delhi. Finally, he travelled through deserts to the Himalayas and the most northerly city in the country. During his adventure Olson experienced personal highs and lows from the paradise of the artist residency at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, to a 2 day hospital stay following a crash that totaled the artist's classic Royal Enfield motorcycle. Passing through ancient villages seemingly unchanged for thousands of years, past mounds of coloured plastic burning in the early day, Olson witnessed a landscape in the midst of massive change. This exhibition is comprised of paintings that depict Olson's experiences on this adventure of a young man's lifetime.