Tampa museum of art studio program director

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Larsen, with her husband artist Roger Palmer, lives and works between Tampa, Florida and New York. A monograph, Mernet Larsen, with a text by John Yau, was published by Damiani Press in 2013.

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Since 2005, solo shows at The New York Studio School, Vogt Gallery, and James Cohan Gallery in NY, and Various Small Fires in LA, launched national and international interest in Larsen, who has recently been rediscovered by the art world as a significant voice in the вЂњextensive, possibly global conversation about how to portray modern, three-dimensional life on two-dimensional surfacesвЂќ (Roberta Smith, The New York Times). Her work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA the Israel Museum, Jerusalem the Tampa Museum of Art and the St. She has been the subject of over 35 solo exhibitions, including a comprehensive 60-year retrospective of her work at the Tampa Museum of Art in 2017 and a 30 year retrospective at DeLand Museum of Art (FL) in 1992. Since 1970, Larsen has been featured in more than 100 group exhibitions, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY., the White Cube in London, and the New Wales Gallery (museum), Sidney, Australia. They reflect a longing for something lost, and a desire for a sense of space and narrative unity more in accord with contemporary concepts of realityвЂ¦.вЂќ вЂ¦These paintings are at once a tribute, affectionate parody, and critique of Renaissance narrative painting. Renaissance, isometric, and reverse perspectives interact, visible as systems, not illusions. She has said: вЂњI want nonspecific viewpoints, a sense of vertigo, so that you are holding each situation in your mind almost as if you are wearing it. Taking inspiration from the geometric abstractions of El Lissitzky and the narrative stylization of 12th Century Japanese scrolls and early Renaissance paintings, Larsen evolved narrative paintings as often vertiginous spaces in reverse or parallel perspective. While always exhibiting an independent and meticulous approach to painting, it was in the early 2000вЂ™s that Larsen came to a crucial turning point. Research supported by USF travel grants to China, Japan, and India continues to inform her work. Larsen also served on numerous boards and committees outside USF, including the Artist Advisory Committee of the Hillsborough County Arts Council, and the acquisition committee of the Tampa Museum of Art. Over the course of her tenure at USF, Larsen was awarded numerous grants and awards, including the Jerry Krivanic Distinguished Teacher Award.

Larsen is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida, where she taught painting and drawing from 1967 until 2003. She holds a BFA from the University of Florida (1962) and an MFA from Indiana University (1965). Mernet Larsen, born in 1940 in Houghton, Michigan, grew up in Chicago and in Gainesville, Florida.

Tampa museum of art studio program director