Opening Reception:                Saturday December 13th, 2024 from 7pm-11pm. 

Exhibition Dates:                     December 13th through January 10th, 2024.

Avast thar bosun’s-mate, Skot Olsen’s treading through. Olsen’s December exhibit at The Shooting Gallery brings us back to mid-19th century nautical art. Featuring venturesome paintings filled with shifting movement, as experienced when viewing choppy and haphazard waves. Don’t be alarmed if you’re over taken by a feeling of bobbing on rough waters. In contrast, Olsen’s divine figures, such as Saint Architeuthis, provide hope and serenity, where the unpredictable conditions of the ocean have none.

Those unfamiliar with sea legends must know that Saint Architeuthis is the patron saint of doomed sailors.  It’s a squid of righteousness, bearing a bishop’s crown, tentacular staff, barbed harpoon and weighty anchor. Through such lavish accoutrements, Olsen conveys his power of the sea. 

Olsen completed trade school for illustration and animation at the Joe Kubert School in New Jersey, more importantly he used what he’s learned from peers and from constant practice. His painting process has changed through varying subject matter and improving technique since the legendary Harlod Golden Gallery fire that destroyed 9 of Olsens pieces. He’s consciously loosened brushwork injecting more life and movement into each piece. This will be Skot Olsen’s first solo show on the west coast.

Sail into The Shooting Gallery for the opening reception of “Architeuthis”, new works by Skot Olsen, on December 13th 2024 from 7pm until 11pm. This event is open to the public. If we don’t see you thar yall be walk’n the plank!