“Again,” 2026
Oil and modeling paste on canvas
51”x36”
A painting based on my 2-year-old daughter’s version of writing ABCs, as a reminder that all human-made systems are invented and could be rewritten. This one also has frequent interruptions. 🖍️💫
📸 Brica Wilcox @bricasardine
Thrilled to be speaking about one of my favorite artists, Takako Yamaguchi, with the brilliant Andy Campbell Saturday, November 15 (today!) at 2pm at MoCA Grand! ✨Thank you to Anna Katz and MoCA for the invite 🙏 @andycampy@annackatz@moca Photo by Katherine Flynn @katiejflynnphotography
Merge (2023) by Alex Olson will be in Carla's Ten Year Soiree & Art Auction, which goes live for bidding this Friday, May 30, 2025 at 12pm.
The art auction will include 102 L.A.-based artists—many of whom have been featured in Carla’s pages over the last decade. Each artist is contributing a small, accessibly-priced 5x7 inch work on paper (or a low-relief, wall-based medium); this small-scale format is inspired by blow-in cards found between the pages of print magazines.
The auction closes at 8:45pm at the in-person event at The Pit on June 14, 2025. Follow the link in bio for tickets.
Alex Olson
Merge, 2023
Gouache on paper
7 in x 5 in
#AlexOlson @alexolson___@contemporaryartreview.la #AltmanSiegel
Catch works by Henrik Munik Soerensen (@henrik_munk_soerensen ), Ava McDonough (@avamcdonough ), Devon Tsuno (@devontsunostudio ), Elise Vazelakis (@elisevazelakis ), and Alex Olson (@alexolson___ ) at Carla’s Ten Year Soirée & Art Auction on June 14th at The Pit.
Each of the 103 participating artists are contributing a small, accessibly-priced 5x7 inch work on paper (or a low-relief, wall-based medium); this small-scale format is inspired by blow-in cards found between the pages of print magazines. The starting bids for all artworks will be $300, and the online auction will go live on May 30th and conclude at the in-person event on June 14th.
Tickets for the event and more information about the art auction are available online at the link in bio!
Hi! I have a show of opening May 1 at Altman Siegel’s Presidio Heights location. If you’re around, please stop by!
Letters
Altman Siegel | The Final Show in Presidio Heights
May 1 – May 24, 2025
@altmansiegel
I just made a website: alexolsonstudio.com
A massive Thank You to the brilliant designer Jas Stefanski and programmer Kenner Luoma. #jasstefanski #kennerluoma
Link in bio 👆🙏💅
Hello, it’s the last week to see my show “Spines” at Josh Lilley. The work is broadly about how we acquire knowledge, and more specifically about my daughter and her experiences of being new to this world, or how I perceive or imagine them to be, as well as mine with her.
Here’s Bath, 2024
Oil and modeling paste on canvas
81x57”
Many thanks to the team at Josh Lilley 🙏 @joshlilleylondon
Six details from our current exhibition “Spines” by @alexolson___ .
1 Two Spines Lying Down, 2024
2 Bath, 2024
3 Two Spines Lying Down, 2024
4 Two Spines Side by Side, 2024
5 Two Spines Side by Side, 2024
6 Bath, 2024
📙On view now until August 17 📙
@AlexOslon ’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘Spines’, continues until 17 August, 2024. Don’t miss the chance to see these special, sculptural paintings in person.
“Over the past decade Alex Olson has made perceptually complex paintings that ask how we understand what we see...’Spines’ here references books, but also bodies, and soecifically those of Olson and her newborn daughter. The spine serves as a structuring decide throughout.” Suzanne Hudson 📕📚📖
📕 Opening tonight, 6-8pm 📕
📙 Alex Olson - Spines 📙
Josh Lilley is pleased to present, Spines, @alexolson___ first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Over the past decade, Alex Olson has made perceptually complex paintings that ask how we understand what we see. She early on thematized acts of reading and interpretation through asemic stand-ins for written texts, and then increasingly used the trope of the stroke or calligraphic line to communicate how paint is simultaneously material and a means of signification. She likewise has described the use of visual speed bumps to slow down apprehension of the whole composition, or to dislodge one from the ease of having a quick glance conform to unconscious habit. In her plays of pattern recognition but also disambiguation, she creates frames for these epistemic processes. Her new works presented in Spines—inclusive of the largest made to date—show Olson moving from wondering aloud, visually, about preconceptions to the limits of knowledge and how it is acquired in the first place.
- Suzanne Hudson
Thrilled to be opening a show “Spines” at Josh Lilley on July 4, 6-8pm, with a brilliant text by the brilliant Suzanne Hudson. If you are in London, please stop by! 👯♀️📚 @joshlilleylondon #suzannehudson
📸 Charles White / JWPictures.com
“Two Spines Laying Down” 2024
Oil and modeling paste on canvas
81”x57”
Hi, this painting and a couple others will be with Altman Siegel at Art Basel Miami @altmansiegel 💋
“Book” 2023, oil and modeling paste on canvas, 71”x50” 📖 Photo: Jeff McLane @jefffmclane
