Celebrating Local Artists
Wink eyewear is committed to celebrate and support our local art communities.
A few times a year Wink will purchase a piece from a local artist and the rights to use it for a one-time, limited edition run on our luxe cleaning cloths. Wink “art cloths” are larger, thicker and last longer than typical cleaning cloths. They are available free of charge but only to those who purchase new eyewear while the cloths are available.
Once they are gone they are gone.
Marty Olson
2025 Spring / Summer Featured Artist
Marty Olson
The following excerpts are from an artist profile written by Ashley Zellers for an exhibit for the Cider Gallery in Lawrence, KS:
The work of artist Marty Olson is a vibrant exploration of multicultural artistic styles. Olson’s art reflects his ever-expanding inspiration that draws from different regions, periods, and experiences. Olson was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but grew up and still resides in Lawrence. He has participated in, and advocated for, the local art scene for decades.
Olson often revisits the southwest to absorb the imagery, color, and general inspiration the region has to offer. Southwestern culture is central in many of his works, resulting in art that is charged with rich history, emotion, and inspired vision.
Olson values hard work and the exhaustive exploration of all visual expressions. His personal favorite artists all share one trait: they have qualities that make him curious. Those artists include David Hockney, Cima Katz, Julie Green, Lisa Grossman, Frida Kahlo, and more.
A limited edition of 500 artist cloths featuring “Witness” by Marty Olson
Susan Grace
2024 Fall / Winter Featured Artist
Susan Grace is a painter who lives and works in Lawrence, KS. Although she studied painting informally in Athens, Greece, her academic background is primarily in literature and theater, and she taught courses in modern American and European literature at universities in the U.S. and at The American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. While teaching, she always maintained an active studio practice regardless of where she was living. Upon returning to the U.S., she held a tenured faculty position at the University of Kansas until she left for a full-time artist studio practice. Her study of literature and theater continues to inspire and influence her work.
Grace moves freely between representation and abstraction as she works with a variety of subject matter, including the figure, architecture, and landscape. Regardless of the subject, she uses fragmentation, layering, and complexity to create multiple possibilities for interpretation and experience. Often a variety of images are fused within a single work, and recent paintings have incorporated text, random marks, and abstract elements to enrich images both formally and conceptually.
Her work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the U.S., including 33 Contemporary Gallery, Palm Beach; La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles; ARC Gallery, Chicago; Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, GA; World Trade Center, New Orleans; Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex, Oklahoma City; Wichita Art Museum, KS; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI; The Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green; and Riverside Art Museum, CA. She has received numerous awards for her work, and her paintings are in many private and public collections, including the Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS and The Art of Emprise Collection, Wichita, KS.
A limited edition of 1000 art cloths featuring “Blue Ciggy” by Susan Grace