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DEREK LARSON:
SAF ALEPH (BETH)

APRIL 4 - 27, 2014
ADA GALLERY, RICHMOND VIRGINIA

 


The title of this solo show of Larson's called "Saf Aleph(Beth) " suggests a kind of modus operandi for his artistic practice, as the artist can be found on one hand toppling expectations within media or intermixing genre with subject on the other in his sampling of shape-shifting historical and cultural paradigms everywhere from the specters of Karl Marx to the specters of Minimalism, Color Field Painting, cellular patterning, digital pixelation, Garfield, or any sort of what have you that may be drawn to his attention as imagery or subject matter. His video sculpture pieces hop boundaries not only in terms of genre but also in the way that they 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 imagery and to their sometimes 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.
 
 
Originally hailing from Seattle, WA, Derek G. Larson received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2007 and earned his BFA from the Herron School of Art, Indiana University in Indianapolis, IN 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 shows in London, England; St. Petersburg, Russia, and most recently shows in Helsinki, Finland and New Orleans, LA. His work has been featured in the Seattle Times, NY Arts Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Rhizome @ The New Museum in New York. His work is in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Jepson Center, Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia. This summer 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 Fellow.
   
 
   
 
   


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