Noah Olsen

Noah Olsen was born in Rhode Island in 1992. In 2013, he received his Associate in Arts at Bristol Community College. Yearning for a strong traditional art education, Olsen then spent three years studying at the Academy of Realist Art Boston after being awarded their 2016 scholarship. His work has won best in show in the Richeson Small Works Exhibition, the Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition and the Guild of Boston Artist Juried Exhibition. Noah Olsen currently lives and paints in the Missouri Ozarks.

His paintings are a contemporary marriage of classical painting and surrealism. Olsen’s paintings are akin to visual myths, tapping into the long history of distilling the human experience into symbolic legends. These pictorial stories bring the viewer directly into the climactic moment of an untold myth, one which he or she is left to decipher the context and narrative through the lens of his or her individual experiences. He meticulously renders in oils, creating representational artwork that features symbolism related to birth, life, transformation, self reflection, decay and death. His work often portrays morbid or somber imagery but with a delicate, dreamlike beauty.