SARAH OLSON
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Sea Paintings, 2008-2011
In these paintings, all created on a traditional marble ground gesso surface, I take my fascination with distended and distorted tree limbs, insects, birds, intestines, breasts and bellies into the sea. I am curious about where life really begins. Deep in the oceans there are hydrothermal vents where, some scientists, believe, might be the springboard for the earliest forms of life. I am curious how, as humans, that remote landscape of the deepest ocean is perhaps connected to us and how we began.
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Abyssal Night, 2012, oil on canvas mounted on wood panel, 40 x 54 inches
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Bubbled-head Wingless Pine Needler, 2012, oil on wood panel, 16 x 12 inches
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Deep Sea Tree, 2012 oil on canvas mounted on wood panel 54 x 40 inches
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Headless Woman, 2012, oil on wood panel, 12 x 16 inches
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Night Moths, 2012, oil on wood panel with incised line drawing, 9 x 9 inches
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Seven Sisters, 2012 oil on wood panel 8 x 10 inches
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Smokey Belly, 2012, oil on wood panel, 8 x 10 inches
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Underwater Lake, 2012, oil on wood panel, 20 x 16 inches
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Yellow Bulb, 2012, oil on wood panel, 12 x 16 inches
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Dead Chickens, 2011, oil on wood panel with incised line drawing, 4 x 6 inches, inscribed on verso: Look at Chickens / Chicken Truck
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Egg Rocks, 2011, oil on wood panel with incised line draw
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Microscopic Jellies, 2011, oil on wood panel with incised line drawing, 6 x 6 inches
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Muscle Tree, 2011, oil on wood panel with incised line drawing, 6 x 6 inches
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Psycho Turkey, 2011 oil on wood panel with incised line drawing 8 x 8 inches
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Red Dancing Bird, 2011, oil on wood panel, 3-3/8 x 10-1/8 inches
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Rose Creature, 2011, oil on wood panel with incised line drawing, 8 x 8 inches
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Twisty Butts, 2011 oil on wood panel 3-1/2 x 10-3/8 inches
