Larkin Higgins

Larkin Higgins is an American cross-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work includes paintings, drawings, visual poetry, artists' books, book sculptures, installation art, collage, mail art, photo-related works, and performance art. Her published books of poetry combine text with logographic drawings. ^[1] She is a tenured professor of art at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. ^[2]

Her work was celebrated at the Festival of Women in 1993, where she gave a talk on visual objects and the stories they tell. ^[3]

She was included in a group exhibition focused on assemblage at the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture in 2009. ^[4]

Work in permanent collections

Her work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:

• Grunwald Collection at the Hammer Museum (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Erie Art Museum
• Laguna Beach Museum of Art
• California Museum of Photography
• Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections
• Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries
• Judith A. Hoffberg Archive (University of California, Santa Barbara Library)
• University at Buffalo Libraries, Special Collections
• International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction ^[5]

Bibliography

Her published books of poetry include:

• Of Materials, Implements (Dusie Kollektiv)
• Matchbook: Poems (Red Wind Books), 1999 ^[6]
• Of Traverse and Template (Mindmade Books), 2013 ^[7]
• Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted (Dusie), 2013 ^[8]
• comb- ing mine- ings (Dusie), 2015 ^[9]

References

1. "3 things to do for free in Denver this week, April 7–10". Westword. April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2009.
2. "Larkin Higgins, M.F.A. | California Lutheran University". www.callutheran.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
3. Simon, Stephanie (April 26, 1993). "Thousand Oaks University to Salute Women in the Arts". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. ProQuest   282025288.
4. "Assemblage Exhibit Slated at CLUArtists Create 3-D works from Found Objects". Targeted News Source. January 26, 2009. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
5. "Larkin Higgins, M.F.A. | California Lutheran University". www.callutheran.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
6. Higgins, Larkin; Lummis, Suzanne; Red Wind Books (Firm) (1999). Matchbook: poems. Los Angeles: Red Wind Books. ISBN   9781889504018. OCLC   224623741.
7. Higgins, Larkin (2013). Of traverse and template. Los Angeles: Mindmade Books. OCLC   865014021.
8. Higgins, Larkin (2015). Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted. OCLC   1009756291.
9. Higgins, Larkin (2015). comb- ing mine- ings. OCLC   939415219.