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Jacqui Larsen
Jacqui Larsen is an American Artist working with paints and mixed-media.
Biographical Information
[edit]Jacqui Biggs Larsen, born 1962, grew up in the suburbs of DeWitt, New York. Her father was an electrical engineer for General Electric, and her mother was a secretary for Agway. She is the middle child and has both an older and younger brother. Larsen attended Brigham Young University where she earned her BFA (1986) and MFA (1988). She also served an LDS mission in Peru from 1985-1986. She has taught at Houston Community College (1989-1992) and Northwest College (1992-1993), both in Houston, Texas. She has also taught at Brigham Young University (2016) where she co-directed a Study Abroad program to Spain, and has served on the Board of Directors for Art Access Utah. Larsen now lives with her husband and children in Springville, Utah. Her husband, Lance Larsen, was poet laureate of Utah from 2012-2017. She enjoys hiking and running in the mountains near their home. Larsen has served on the Board of Directors for Art Access Utah and is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah.[1] [2]
Artistic Style and Influences
[edit]Larsen works with oils, acrylics, and collages, often all in the same piece. Her works often consist of easily recognizable objects (especially houses or animals) on a floating plane. She places these representational shapes above a background of either collage, or of heavy brushstrokes similar to those found in action painting. Through her work Larsen hopes to “make sense not just of victoires but struggles we so often hide.”[3] "Her collages demonstrate her view that human's nature is dual-part earthly and partspiritual. She explores childhood, sisterhood, and maternity in ways that question western tradition."[4] Larsen is represented by New Vision Art.
Artist Statement
[edit]For Jacqui Larsen, art is a way to collect observations, experiences, and impressions on one visual plane. “We live double lives,” she says, “the exterior, observable life that can be captured in a snapshot and the interior life of thoughts, memories and dreams. I’m interested in the spaces where these worlds connect or collide.” Larsen’s layered paintings and collages include everyday images of suburban houses, domestic objects, and animals from birds to llamas. Ladders, staircases, rowboats and floating ropes add dimensions of transport, while collage elements of found photographs, handwriting, text, maps and blueprints act as artifacts of lived lives. “When I end a work with more questions than when I started,” she says, “I know I’m on the right track.”
Selected Exhibitions
[edit]- 2016 Solo Show: Three Mile Radius, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
- 2014 Painting and Sculpture: Utah Arts & Museums Statewide Annual Exhibition, Rio Gallery, SLC, UT
- 2011 Solo Show: Magnetic North, Gallery at Library Square, SLC, UT
- 2010 Solo Show: Animal Brilliance, Paintings of Jacqui Larsen & Poetry of Lance Larsen, Auditorium Gallery, Harold B. Lee Library, BYU, Provo, UT
- 2009 A Product of Time and Faith, HFAC, BYU, Provo, UT
- 2007 Solo Show: New Work, Gallery at the Station, Ogden, UT
- 2007 Solo Show: Rearranging the Landscape, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
- 2007 Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, Rio Gallery, SLC, UT
- 2007 A Show of Hands, Finch Lane Gallery, SLC, UT
- 2006 Four Rooms, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
- 2005 Dress, Rio Gallery, SLC, UT
- 2005 Solo Show: What’s Lost, What’s Found, Art Access Gallery, SLC, UT
- 2004 Metaphorically Speaking, Museum of Art, BYU, Provo, UT
- 2002 Women Beyond Borders: Internationally Traveling Exhibition,
- 2002 Santa Barbara, CA
- 2001 The De-Constructed West: Four-State Fellowship Exhibition,
- 2001 Millenium Arts Center, Washington DC,
- 2001 Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
Fellowships and Publications
[edit]2018 Cover: Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations, by Ira Sukrungruang, Univ. of Tampa Press 2018 Cover: What the Body Knows, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2018 Cover: Literature and Belief, Brigham young University, Spring Issue 2017 Featured Artist, Prayers in Bath, Mormon Artists Group, 2017 2016 Featured Artist, Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg, PA, Spring Issue 2014 Cover: Rattle, Studio City, CA, Spring Issue #43 2013 Cover: Genius Loci, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2009 Anderson Center Fellowship Award, Red Wing, MN Cover: Backyard Alchemy, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2006 Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Utah Arts Council 2005 Cover: In All Their Animal Brilliance, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2002 Lt. Governor’s Award, Lt. Governor’s Show, The Rotunda, SLC, UT [5]
Partnerships and Collaborations
[edit]2018 Artist Partner, with Yapay Bolivia, a non-profit charitable organization 2017 Artist Partner, with the Utah Chamber Artists
Museums and Public Collections
[edit]State of Utah Art Collection, SLC, UT Harold B. Lee Library, BYU, Provo, UT Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Museum of Church History and Art, SLC, UT
External Links
[edit]New Vision Art http://history.cfac.byu.edu/index.php/Jacqui_Biggs_Larsen
- ^ "About". jacquilarsen.com. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "About". jacquilarsen. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ Swanson, Vern G; Olpin, Robert S; Rogers, Janie L; Poulton, Donna L. Utah art, Utah artists : 150 year survey : Springville Museum of Art, 15 January-30 April 2002 (1st ed.). Gibbs Smith, Publisher. p. 150. ISBN 1-58685-111-X.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Utah Artists Project". J Willard Marriott Library. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "Publications". jacquilarsen. Retrieved 18 September 2018.