VIVIANEART is proud to present a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Canadian artist Erik Olson. Featuring sixteen portraits, all black and white made with oil stick and charcoal, this new series was created during the artist’s recent isolation in his Düsseldorf based home and studio. The poem by Walt Whitman, read in the context of personal sequestration, is the poignant inspiration for these drawings. Created in the spring of 2020, the drawings depict the rich emotions of longing and need for connection felt during the splendour of the season, but drained of colour by isolation. The need to discover the likeness in others is shrouded by circumstance, and the force of nature, so compelling and relentless, is sublimated by events.
