Ted Larsen

Statement:

The works I create supply commentary on minimalist belief systems and the ultimate importance of High Art practice. An artist's work usually adheres to the construct of a cohesive direction with the work illustrating a single theme or underscoring a didactic agenda. But such a logical order has no specific place in my studio practice.

Introducing alternative and salvage materials to my own formally driven abstract sculpture, I hope to bring purist shapes and surfaces back down to earth. I quest for new materials, "non-art materials" to create my work. I am constructing bricolage works in order to re-purpose the materials and re-identify their meanings: to re-contextualize and re-label the idea of Ready-mades. It is my on-going experimentation with contexts, hybrids, and scale.

The works keep possession of pleasing formality and visceral elegance while making fun of modernist purity. This is a tribute to anti-triumphalism, the spontaneous, non-hierarchical, un-monumental thematic artistic landscape which offers no specific resolution and no isolation of meaning.

Résumé:

Born in South Haven, Michigan
Lives and Works in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Awards

2011 Surdna Foundation, New York, New York, Educational Travel Grant
2011 Asilah Arts Festival, Asilah, Morocco, United States of American Representative, Invited by the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI
2009 Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency Fellowship
2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award
2008 Friends of Contemporary Art Purchase Prize, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Open Studio Press Publication, Exhibition Award, Open Studio Press, Boston, Massachusetts
1995 First Place Painting, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado
1995 Second Place Pastels and Drawing, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado
1993 First Place Award of Painting Excellence, The Plaza Art Festival, Kansas City, Kansas
1993 Third Place Pastels and Drawing, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado
1987 Exhibition Award, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
1986 Award of Painting Distinction, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona

Solo Exhibitions

2013 Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, New York (forthcoming)
2013 David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico (forthcoming)
2013 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas (forthcoming)
2013 Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming (forthcoming)
2013 Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida (forthcoming)
2012 Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (forthcoming)
2012 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
2011 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2011 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 Eight Modern, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010 Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2010 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2009 Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2008 Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, Texas
2008 Eight Modern, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
2007 Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2007 Parks Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
2007 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, New York
2006 Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, Texas
2005 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Thomas Ingerick Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2005 Rentz Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2004 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
2003 Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2003 J. Cotter Gallery, Vail, Colorado
2003 Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, New York
2002 Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 Thomas Ingerick Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2002 J. Cotter Gallery, Vail, Colorado
2001 Joyce Petter Gallery, Douglas, Michigan
2001 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 J. Cotter Gallery, Vail, Colorado
2001 Thomas Ingerick Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2000 Joyce Petter Gallery, Douglas, Michigan
2000 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Thomas Ingerick Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1999 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Joyce Petter Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan
1998 Leapingotis Fine Art, Vail, Colorado
1998 Gallery A, Taos, New Mexico
1998 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 Leapingotis Fine Art, Vail, Colorado
1997 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Hahn Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Hahn Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Gingrass Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1988 Joyce Petter Gallery, Saugatuck Michigan
1987 Button Gallery, Douglas, Michigan
1986 Northern Arizona University Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona

Group Exhibitions

2012 Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (forthcoming)
2012 Art Miami with Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida (forthcoming)
2012 Texas Contemporary with Conduit Gallery, Houston, Texas (forthcoming)
2012 Art Houston with McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas (forthcoming)
2012 Art Aspen with Robischon Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (current)
2012 Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls, Texas (current)
2012 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2012 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2011 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Asilah Arts Festival, Asilah, Morocco, United States of America Representative
2011 Art Miami with Robischon Gallery, Miami, Florida
2011 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011 Art Aspen with Lesley Heller Workspace, Aspen, Colorado
2011 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2011 Pinta Art Fair, Pan American Art Projects, London, England
2010 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2010 Aqua Art Fair with Robischon Gallery, Miami, Florida
2010 Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, New York
2010 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2009 Dallas Art Fair, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Scope Art Fair, Pan American Art Projects, Basel, Switzerland
2009 LA Art Fair, Pan American Art Projects, Los Angeles, California
2008 Pulse Art Fair, Pan American Art Projects. Miami, Florida
2008 Aqua Art Fair, Rule Gallery, Miami, Florida
2008 Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2008 Galleri Urbane, Marfa, Texas
2008 Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2008 Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 LA Art Fair, Pan American Art Projects, Los Angeles, California
2007 Art Miami, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2007 Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas
2007 Lemmons Contemporary, New York, New York
2007 Parks Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
2007 Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2007 LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, California with LewAllen Contemporary
2007 Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida with Pan American Art Projects
2007 Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, Florida with Pan American Art Projects
2007 Red Dot, New York City, New York, with Sears-Peyton Gallery and Madelyn Jordan Fine Art
2006 Art Basil/Miami, Miami Beach, Florida with Pan American Art Projects
2006 Wooster Art Space, New York City, New York
2006 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, Texas
2004 Chase Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 Butters Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2004 Rentz Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2002 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
2001 Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri
1998 Tanglewood Arts Center, North Hampton, Massachusetts
1995 Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado
1993 Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado
1993 Kansas City Arts Festival, Kansas City, Kansas
1991 St. Louis Art Fair, St. Louis, Missouri
1989 Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Miami Beach, Florida
1987 Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona

Guest Lectures

2012 Studio Visit and Presentation of Practice, Denver Art Museum visits Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012 University of Art & Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Guest Lecture on Contemporary Art Topics"
2011 South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts, "Guest Lecture and Visiting Artist”
2011 Palm Springs Art Museum, "Guest Lecture on Studio Practice and Materials”
2011 Friends of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, "Guest Lecture on Studio Practice and Materials”
2011 University of Art & Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Guest Lecture on Studio Practice and Materials”
2010 University of Art & Design at Eight Modern, Santa Fe, New Mexico, “Installation Principles”
2010 Art Table at Eight Modern, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Presentation on Critical Theory for Members”
2010 Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Board of Directors, Studio Visit and Observation”
2008 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Friends of Contemporary Art Lecture”
2007 Miami Art Museum at Pan American Art Projects Gallery, Miami, Florida, “Exhibition Presentation”
2006 Texas Society of Architects at Pan American Art Projects Gallery, Dallas, Texas, “Art to Architecture”

Education

1986 B.A. General Studies Science, Northern Arizonan University, Flagstaff, Magna Cum Laude
1982-84 Whittier College, Whittier, California

Bibliography

A Gift from the Heart: The James & Barbara Palmer Collection, Jan Muhlert, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, 2012 (forthcoming)
Art LTD, May/June, 2012, "Pulse"
Santa Fean, June/July, 2012 "Ted Larsen, Artists to Watch," Dianna Delling
The New Mexican PasaTiempo Magazine, January 27, 2012, "Art in Review," Michael Abatemarco
The Albuquerque Journal, January 6, 2012, "Falling Festivities," Kate McGraw
Denver Post, August 18, 2011, "Artists Pard Morrison & Ted Larsen Tackle
Geometric Abstraction from Different Angles," Kyle MacMillan
Westward Arts, Denver Edition, July 5, 2011, Staple of Summer Arts Season, Michael Paglia
D Magazine, April, 2011, Front Row Review, Geometric Trio, Peter Simik
Houston Magazine, May, 2011, Heavy Metal, Charlie Bier
PasaTiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, Art In Review, New Mexico Museum of Art, Douglas A. Fairfield, January 14, 2011
The New York Times, “36 Hours in Santa Fe,” Fred A. Bernstein, May 23, 2010
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 13, 2009, Low Key Wit, Charm, and Color, Edith Newhall
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The New Mexican, July 2, 1993, “Review of Exhibition at Gingrass”
The Phoenix Sun, December 29, 1986, “Review of Exhibition at NAU Museum of Art”
Art Gallery International Magazine, August, 1985, “The Larsen Family”

Public and Corporate Collections

New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, State Of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.M.
Edward F. Albee Foundation
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Capital One, Richmond, Virginia
Janus Funds, Denver, Colorado
TCI of Colorado, Inc., Denver, Colorado
Sanford Business School, Birmingham, Alabama
Prudential Securities, Elkhart, Indiana
Burns McClellan, Inc, New York, New York
US West Inc, Englewood, California
Business Services Unlimited, Bodega Bay, California
Qupkka Sports, San Francisco, California
Quail Run Resort, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mission Valley Acupuncture, San Diego, California
Free Forms, Greensboro, North Carolina
Saltzman, Cohen, Massaro & Co., Denver, Colorado
Krasel Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
American Honda Motor Co, Inc, Aurora, Colorado
Robins Investments, Corpus Cristi, Texas
F & S Partners, Dallas, Texas
Pioneer Hi-Bred Inc, Des Moines, Iowa
United Artists, Inglewood, California
The St. Joe Company, Jacksonville, Florida
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Lee Enterprises, Davenport, Iowa
Gaines Daugherty Hewon & Moddy, Austin, Texas
Bank One, Denver, Colorado
United Parcel Service, Atlanta, Georgia
U-Tran-U Undergarments, Denver, Colorado
Great Occasions, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fidelity Investments, Miami, Florida
TNC Transport, Inc., Denver, Colorado
Grabber Trucking, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
UBS, New York, New York
Loews Giorgio Hotel, Denver, Colorado
The Boston Consulting Group, New York, New York
Pepsi-Cola Corp., Denver, Colorado
United Airlines, Inglewood, California
USC/Norris Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
Insights In Marketing, Wilmette, Illinois
Marakon Association, San Francisco, California
KHOU-TV, Houston, Texas
Rubin, Baum, Levin, Miami, Florida
Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, New York
Bolivian Consulate, Washington, D.C.
Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mathaei Interiors, New York, New York
Forbes, Inc., New York, New York
Rosenburg Accounting, New York, New York
The St. Louis Arts Festival, St. Louis, Missouri
Steel Case, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan
J.P. Morgan Chase, New York, New York
PepsiCo, Purchase, New York
John Eagle Motors HUB, Dallas, Texas
Dreyfus Funds, New York, New York
NBC, New York, New York
Rosenburg Accounting, New York, New York
SC Johnson, Racine, Wisconsin
The Venitian Hotel, Macau, China
Thoma Bravo, Chicago, Illinois