Dubuque artist Tim Olson finds inspiration in the people and places around him and uses that inspiration to reimagine historic paintings in his latest series titled, Olson's Art Through the Ages: A Midwestern Perspective. With profound awareness for visual storytelling and irreverent humor, Olson creates a direct dialogue between Midwestern life and historic art. The exhibition features twelve new oil on panel paintings and is organized by the Dubuque Museum of Art.
 
From courtly portraits to iconic altarpieces, Olson brings these exalted images into the contemporary experience. As he describes them, "The paintings in this series combine regional subject matter (crime stories, landscapes, portraits) with paintings from the past. It started, in part, with a recognition of the similarity between contemporary mug shots and portraits by early Netherlandish painters, and continued from there."