File:Mernet Larsen Mall Event 2010.jpg

Painting by Mernet Larsen, Mall Event (acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 50" x 55", 2010). The image illustrates a mid-career body of work by Mernet Larsen in the 2010s: her idiosyncratic, disorienting narrative paintings depicting a highly abstracted, parallel world of enigmatic and/or mundane scenarios. These works featured odd, stretched out, sometimes contradictory perspectival effects, radical shifts in scale, upended perception and elements of non-sequitur humor and foreboding that combined to de-familiarized everyday events such as exercising, domestic life, meetings, café, or as in this work, mall trips. This painting and type of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Mernet Larsen. Copyright held by the artist.

Mernet Larsen

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-career body of work in Mernet Larsen's career from the 2010s, when she produced idiosyncratic, disorienting narrative paintings that depicted a highly abstracted, parallel world of enigmatic and/or mundane scenarios. These works often explored aspects of human connection that were rendered with odd, stretched out, sometimes contradictory perspectival effects, often perpetuated by radical shifts in scale. They were populated by characters that married abstract planes of color to well-observed figuration and detail, as well as juxtapositions of non-sequitur humor and foreboding, upended perception and de-familiarized everyday life. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand these later developments and bodies of work, which brought Larsen ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Larsen's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Mernet Larsen, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.