Megan Olson

Megan Olson is an American painter born in 1971. She was raised in rural Connecticut, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, and Berlin. Olson received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002, and was discovered by Maxwell Davidson Gallery while attending the AICAD New York Studio Residency Program.

Work Olson creates abstract works in gouache, watercolor, graphite, spray paint and oil paint, on paper and canvas.

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." 2010 Beyond the Chains of Illusion, Berlin Art Projects, Berlin, Germany 2009 Spray Paintings , Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY 2007 Urban Nature , Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Still Movement , Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Synapsis, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Organic Abstractions, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY