Ted Larsen (sculptor)

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Ted Larsen
Born1964 (age 59–60)
South Haven, Michigan
EducationNorthern Arizonan University and Whittier College
Known for Contemporary visual art

Ted Larsen (born 1964) is an American contemporary visual artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He makes small scale work from repurposed salvaged materials.

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Early life and education

As a young child, Larsen was attracted to discarded tools, tractor parts, and other equipment that lay in a pile on his family property in South Haven, Michigan. He also played in abandoned airplanes in a nearby airport. [1] At the age of 15 Larsen moved from Michigan to Santa Fe with his family. After graduating from Santa Fe Preparatory School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. [2]

Career

Ted Larsen found early success as a landscape painter that included iconic barn images. By the time he was 22, he exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [3] He was dissatisfied with painting and abandoned his practice after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. He began cutting and arranging scraps of metal, built around a substructure of birch laminate material. [1] With a painter's eye, Larsen searches for material to work with at salvage yards, then further processes materials in his studio. Larsen states, "I am indeed looking for a palette— different types of greens, blues, yellows. They have to have a certain quality, not too raw, not too clean." [4]

Larsen's work has been exhibited widely in private foundations and museums in the US, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, [5] The Albuquerque Museum, [6] The Amarillo Museum of Art, [7] and The Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin, Missouri.[ citation needed ]

He was a guest lecturer at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts;[ undue weight? – discuss ] the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; the Palm Springs Art Museum; the New Mexico Museum of Art; SITE Santa Fe; the Texas Society of Architects; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado; [8] the Denver Museum of Art. [9] [ non-primary source needed ] [10] [ non-primary source needed ]

His work was favorably reviewed by Elisabeth Sussman. [11]

Achievements

Larsen's received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award, [12] as well as grant recipient of the Surdna Foundation; residencies with the Edward F. Albee Foundation and Asilah Arts Festival in Morocco, where he represented the United States. [13]

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  2. ↑ Smith, Craig (Fall 2014). "Trouble with the Curve" (PDF). Trend magazine.
  3. ↑ Porter, Clayton (August 28, 2019). "Studio Visit: Ted Larsen". Southwest Contemporary.
  4. ↑ Rothstein, Scott (March 1, 2014). "Ted Larsen: Surfaced Forms". Sculpture. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Artists featured in Art on the Edge". NM Museum Archive.
  6. ↑ Smith, Craig (Fall 2014). "Trouble with the Curve" (PDF). Trend magazine.
  7. ↑ "Texas exhibit". Albuquerque Journal . May 7, 2004. p. 128. Retrieved June 11, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Ted Larsen Lined Out". BMoCA.org.
  9. ↑ "ADAPT (iteration 2)".
  10. ↑ "Ted Larsen at the Robischon Gallery in Denver". Wall Street International Magazine. June 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Ted Larsen By Elisabeth Sussman" (PDF). Joshua Liner Gallery.
  12. ↑ Mora, Elsa. "Ted Larsen's Sculptures". Art is a Way.
  13. ↑ "Ted Larsen". kolaj.
  14. ↑ "Sugar Daddy". New Mexico Museum of Art.
  15. ↑ "Ted Larsen". Lannan Foundation.
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