London-based artist Oliver Osborne is best known for his playful, deadpan compositions that play with the language of abstraction. Mixing genres, styles and media, his works appropriate different elements from the history of painting: The Differences Between Light and Light and Light (2011) seems to offer a witty riposte to Minimal and Conceptual artists who embraced the elemental purity of the white monochrome. Born in Edinburgh, Osborne studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 2012 he was named one of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, participating in exhibitions at the ICA in London and Copperas Hill Building in Liverpool. He featured in the Saatchi Gallery’s group show New Order: British Art II in 2014 – where the present work was exhibited – and mounted his first solo museum presentation at the Bonner Kunstverein in 2018.