Interview
Beer With a Painter: Mernet Larsen
“Rather than being attracted to artists because of their skills or sensitivity, I was always more interested in ideas and imagination.”
Mernet Larsen
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Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex
Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.
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Painting According to Art Basel Miami Beach
At Art Basel Miami Beach, if you only look at the art, it’s an affair worth the trip, because if you want to see the newest art made in Saint Petersburg, Vienna, Barcelona, or Berlin, it’s here.
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The Dynamic Distortions of a Formal Painter
Mernet Larsen claims an unlikely pair of influences: 15th-century Italian painting and the austere abstractions of the Russian modernist El Lissitzky (1890–1941).
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The Formal Challenges of Figurative Painting
Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task.
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Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.
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Prolegomenon to an Artist Who — at Seventy-Two — Is Having Her First Solo Show in a New York Gallery
It is one of those impossible questions that each artist answers differently. How much can you put in? And, of course, the obverse, how much can you leave out?