Aaron Olson-Reiners
@aolsonreiners.bsky.social
He/him
Visual artist.
📍Twin Cities ➡️ Cartagena, Colombia.
www.aaronolsonreiners.com
Visual artist.
📍Twin Cities ➡️ Cartagena, Colombia.
www.aaronolsonreiners.com
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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
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Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933
Jacob Lawrence, “Revolt on the Amistad,” 1989, screenprint on paper.
September 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Jacob Lawrence, “Revolt on the Amistad,” 1989, screenprint on paper.
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Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom.
"These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."
"These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."
I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
The end of critical thinking in the classroom
www.theatlantic.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom.
"These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."
"These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."
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Same applies to painting !
How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.
January 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Same applies to painting !
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A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. First up, one of my favorite paintings by him: Sidewalk Drawings, which celebrates visual power of human mark making with two girls exuberantly drawing in chalk on a city sidewalk
September 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. First up, one of my favorite paintings by him: Sidewalk Drawings, which celebrates visual power of human mark making with two girls exuberantly drawing in chalk on a city sidewalk
A looser approach. This feels right. (Acrylic)
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
April 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A looser approach. This feels right. (Acrylic)
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
Ink drawing.
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April 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Recent drawing.
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April 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Recent drawing.
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
Each mark a reaction to the last. A conversation between intention and accident. Guided by repetition while leaving room for the unexpected turn. Trusting the hand.
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#symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #contemporaryabstract #aaronolsonreiners
April 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Each mark a reaction to the last. A conversation between intention and accident. Guided by repetition while leaving room for the unexpected turn. Trusting the hand.
#symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #contemporaryabstract #aaronolsonreiners
#symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #contemporaryabstract #aaronolsonreiners
In my experience, it works best to maintain at least a 3:1 drawing to thinking ratio. Draw, draw, draw, think. Anything less than that invites analysis paralysis (for me, anyway).
#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
April 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In my experience, it works best to maintain at least a 3:1 drawing to thinking ratio. Draw, draw, draw, think. Anything less than that invites analysis paralysis (for me, anyway).
#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
Recent work.
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
April 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Four in a row.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Work in progress.
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
April 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Work in progress.
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #repetition #improvisation #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
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Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
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Fènghuáng 鳳凰 is a mythological bird that disappears during times of political corruption.
They only reappear before humans after a transition to new leadership and an era of peace and justice.
40" x 30" #woodcut on canvas, one half of diptych
#printpromptmonday #magic #fenghuang
They only reappear before humans after a transition to new leadership and an era of peace and justice.
40" x 30" #woodcut on canvas, one half of diptych
#printpromptmonday #magic #fenghuang
April 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Fènghuáng 鳳凰 is a mythological bird that disappears during times of political corruption.
They only reappear before humans after a transition to new leadership and an era of peace and justice.
40" x 30" #woodcut on canvas, one half of diptych
#printpromptmonday #magic #fenghuang
They only reappear before humans after a transition to new leadership and an era of peace and justice.
40" x 30" #woodcut on canvas, one half of diptych
#printpromptmonday #magic #fenghuang
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Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
April 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What’s he building in there?
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#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #grid #repetition #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
March 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
What’s he building in there?
#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #grid #repetition #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners
#contemporaryabstract #symmetry #grid #repetition #inkdrawing #aaronolsonreiners