Ted Larsen (born 1964) is an American contemporary visual artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He makes small scale work from repurposed salvaged materials.
Ted Larsen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
| Education | Northern Arizonan University and Whittier College |
| Known for | Contemporary visual art |
Early life and education
editAs a young child, Larsen was attracted to discarded tools, tractor parts, and other equipment that lay in a pile on his family property in South Haven, Michigan. He also played in abandoned airplanes in a nearby airport.[1] At the age of 15 Larsen moved from Michigan to Santa Fe with his family. After graduating from Santa Fe Preparatory School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.[2]
Career
editTed Larsen found early success as a landscape painter that included iconic barn images. By the time he was 22, he exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[3] He was dissatisfied with painting and abandoned his practice after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. He began cutting and arranging scraps of metal, built around a substructure of birch laminate material.[1] With a painter's eye, Larsen searches for material to work with at salvage yards, then further processes materials in his studio. Larsen states, "I am indeed looking for a palette— different types of greens, blues, yellows. They have to have a certain quality, not too raw, not too clean."[4]
Larsen's work has been exhibited widely in private foundations and museums in the US, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe,[5] The Albuquerque Museum,[6] The Amarillo Museum of Art,[7] and The Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin, Missouri.[citation needed]
He was a guest lecturer at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts;[undue weight? – discuss] the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; the Palm Springs Art Museum; the New Mexico Museum of Art; SITE Santa Fe; the Texas Society of Architects; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado;[8] the Denver Museum of Art.[9][non-primary source needed][10][non-primary source needed]
His work was favorably reviewed by Elisabeth Sussman.[11]
Achievements
editLarsen's received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award,[12] as well as grant recipient of the Surdna Foundation; residencies with the Edward F. Albee Foundation and Asilah Arts Festival in Morocco, where he represented the United States.[13]
Collections
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Abatemarco, Michael (January 16, 2015). "Abandonment to rebirth: Artist Ted Larsen". Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo.
- ^ Smith, Craig (Fall 2014). "Trouble with the Curve" (PDF). Trend magazine.
- ^ Porter, Clayton (August 28, 2019). "Studio Visit: Ted Larsen". Southwest Contemporary.
- ^ Rothstein, Scott (March 1, 2014). "Ted Larsen: Surfaced Forms". Sculpture. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ "Artists featured in Art on the Edge". NM Museum Archive.
- ^ Smith, Craig (Fall 2014). "Trouble with the Curve" (PDF). Trend magazine.
- ^ "Texas exhibit". Albuquerque Journal. May 7, 2004. p. 128. Retrieved June 11, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Ted Larsen Lined Out". BMoCA.org.
- ^ "ADAPT (iteration 2)".
- ^ "Ted Larsen at the Robischon Gallery in Denver". Wall Street International Magazine. June 29, 2018.
- ^ "Ted Larsen By Elisabeth Sussman" (PDF). Joshua Liner Gallery.
- ^ Mora, Elsa. "Ted Larsen's Sculptures". Art is a Way.
- ^ "Ted Larsen". kolaj.
- ^ "Sugar Daddy". New Mexico Museum of Art.
- ^ "Ted Larsen". Lannan Foundation.