Currently based in California, Oskar studied and grew his practice between Paris and London. Following opportunities he went on to work in Miami as an artist and curator assistant. He now is developing his practice on the central coast of California while still working for the Museum of Graffiti.
Throughout his career Oskar has worked as a maker, photographer, painter, and designer.
Graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design at University of the Arts London in 2016 followed by a Master Degree in Printmaking at University of the Arts London in 2018, his work evolved wrapped into 4 main mediums : Printmaking, Graphic Design, Painting and Photography.
His work is often photo based and always fuses it into screen printing with a keen interest in transparency and different environments. His work is dynamic, often abstract, Repeatedly printing moments and places on an almost industrial scale. He learned painting through graffiti and traditional canvas.
Oskar’s work is focused on the environment and our impact as humans. The different marks we have left throughout the centuries. His obsession with abandoned vestiges of past and modern times incarnate this need to document our hostile impact on the planet. With the same conclusion in his work, that is ; once we have left our marks and we have gone, nature will alway eventually take over. All that will be left of us are our concrete, brick and wooden remains overtaken by plants and animals.
“I began my career in the arts painting on canvas and walls, I then specialized in Graphic Design. This helped push further my interest for space and architecture in particular within abandoned spaces.
At a time of apparent growing division in the world I like to focus on our similarities rather than our differences. Looking and creating them within different cities. Creation and Destruction are two things we all have in common. I experiment with various mediums and techniques in print and painting. From cave art to modern day graffiti, with a touch of graphic design”
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e-mail : oskarmse@gmail.com