Mernet Larsen Follow Study for Subway (with hoodie) signed "Mernet Larsen" lower right acrylic on Bristol paper 24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm.) Painted in 2014.
Provenance Various Small Fires, Los Angeles Acquired from the above by the present owner Catalogue Essay In response to visually absorbing Mernet Larsen's pieces, American poet, art critic and curator John Yau writes “it’s as if we have never seen anything like them before… Seeing becomes a kind of detective work, searching for clues while sorting through the visual evidence. We find ourselves on intimate terms with the familiar and even banal…The anarchy incipient in everyday life comes across as synonymous with its ordinariness…This is the undeniable power of Larsen’s work—she endows ubiquitous occurrences with an oddness that, on the surface of things, seems logical.” Read More
Mernet Larsen Follow Study for Subway (with hoodie) signed "Mernet Larsen" lower right acrylic on Bristol paper 24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm.) Painted in 2014.
Provenance Various Small Fires, Los Angeles Acquired from the above by the present owner Catalogue Essay In response to visually absorbing Mernet Larsen's pieces, American poet, art critic and curator John Yau writes “it’s as if we have never seen anything like them before… Seeing becomes a kind of detective work, searching for clues while sorting through the visual evidence. We find ourselves on intimate terms with the familiar and even banal…The anarchy incipient in everyday life comes across as synonymous with its ordinariness…This is the undeniable power of Larsen’s work—she endows ubiquitous occurrences with an oddness that, on the surface of things, seems logical.” Read More
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