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DEREK LARSON |
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DOG JOKES |
July 3 - July 25, 2015 : ADA GALLERY, RICHMOND VIRGINIA |
Like a tiny pool of thought in a constant stream of information, how do we make space? Tell dog jokes. Not jokes about dogs, tell jokes to dogs. They especially like physical comedy. Dog Jokes is a show of animated projections, videos and paintings by DEREK LARSON. |
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With DOG JOKES Derek Larson returns to ADA for his second solo show. He's currently in Richmond teaching a summer program at VCU and has concurrently been in residency at ADA gallery since June. His latest video sculpture pieces continue to hop boundaries not only in terms of genre, but that they also consciously contrast and intermix the physicality of sculptural form with the immateriality of projected light: transferring light and moving images onto fixed physical structures, whose presence and fixity are in turn challenged by their relation to the projected or animated imagery and to their precarious free-standing placements in space. The sharpness of Larson's imagery and the vividness of his palette brilliantly masks a quiet contrast to the often fleeting nature of his elusive references and the fragile questioning of phenomena and their representation in his work.
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Foghorn Leghorn
mixed media, 55 x 82 x 172", 2015 |
Seattle born artist, Derek G. Larson received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2007 and earned his BFA from the Herron School of Art, Indiana University in Indianapolis in 2005. Currently an assistant professor of New Media and Design at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA., Larson's work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States as well as abroad, including a recent solo exhibit Saf Aleph at ADA's former sister gallery in NYC, Mulherin + Pollard and a follow up exhibit, Saf Aleph (Beth) at ADA gallery in Richmond last year. His work has been featured in the Seattle Times, NY Arts Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Rhizome at The New Museum in New York. His Work is in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Jepson Center of the Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA. Last sumer he published a virtual exhibit with Big Red & Shiny in Boston and was a finalist for the Hudgens Prize in Atlanta. Larson is currently a resident at the Vermont Studio Center as the David Bermant Foundation Foundation Fellow. |
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Read more about the exhibition here
In a great write-up by RVA MAG! |
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Differences
mixed media, 51 x 31 x 19.5" (each), 2015 |
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Grape Ape
mixed media, 70 x 20.5", 2015 |
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Snagglepuss
mixed media, 71 x 26.5", 2015 |
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Dog Jokes
mixed media, 70 x 20.5", 2015 |
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ADA GALLERY. CONTEMPORARY FINE ART. SINCE 2003 . ADDRESS: 228 WEST BROAD STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23220
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