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Artist Spotlight: Mark Ollinger

A selection of recent work from Calgary-born, Vancouver-based artist, Mark Ollinger, who you may remember from his graffiti-esque sculptural interventions (previously featured here). His latest offerings can best be described as elaborate meditations on time or abstract visualizations of a human lifespan.

Mirroring the complex positions and experiences we constantly navigate through symbolic maze-like references, the artwork continuously unfolds, much like time itself. Similarly, informed by graffiti and the way it can highlight a single word, foundational concepts are hidden within the very lines of Ollinger’s designs literally forming the basis upon which everything else emerges. See more mind-bending work below.

Mark Ollinger
Scape

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Scape

 

 

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Scape

 

 

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Tempt

 

 

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Tempt

 

 

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Timing

 

 

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Timing

 

 

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Values

 

 

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Values

 

 

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Inference

 

 

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Inference

 

 

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Intent

 

 

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Intent

 

 

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Introspection

 

 

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Introspection

 

 

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Introspection

 

 

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Momentary

 

 

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Momentary

 

 

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Momentary

 

 

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Momentary

 

 

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Feeling

 

 

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Feeling

 

 

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Feeling

 

 

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Foreshadow

 

 

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Foreshadow

 

 

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Foreshadow

 

 

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Foreshadow

 

 

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Foreshadow

 

 

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Foreshadow

 

 

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Conviction

 

 

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Conviction

 

 

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Conviction

 

 

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Conviction

 

 

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