‘Found It’, Spraypaint cans, material & panel, 50″ x 73.5″, $5000

“My Art gives contemporary art a juvenile delinquent phase. Its self-made style icons gleefully trashed conventions of beauty and society while pickpocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries…”. Steve Olson, a pro skateboarder in the 70s and 80s and prominent figure in the L.A. and San Francisco Punk Rock scene, creates Post Modern work that weaves narrative themes of capitalism, pop culture, social decay, and modern banality with the energy and fun of the early Punk scene. Steve Olson’s work confronts and undermines the way society constructs and imposes a traditional hierarchy of cultural values and meanings by critiquing contemporary society and our relationship with it. The artwork explores power and the way economic and social forces exert that power by shaping the identities of individuals and culture. Questioning the nature and extent of our freedom his art challenges our acquiescence to authority and conventional thought. ?Bold imagery, layered texture, deconstructed material and a playful relationship between art, language and meaning gives this thoughtful work a dimension beyond it’s visual impact.

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