NYAB Event - Liv Mette Larsen "Scrap Metal New York Paintings"

Liv Mette Larsen "Scrap Metal New York Paintings"

Helac Fine Art

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Helac Fine Art presents Scrap Metal New York Paintings an exhibition of recent paintings by Liv Mette Larsen. This is her first solo exhibition in New York and will include works from her series Scrap Metal, Scrap Metal Heap, Big Men, Berlin Blue Abstract Walking, Subway, and Smith Street.

In a career spanning more than thirty years, Larsen’s intuitive paintings, watercolors and drawings establish an energetic dialogue about perception and the transitory moments of life. Working primarily in monochrome silhouettes, she employs alternating scales to reconstruct the subjective realities of her narratives. She proposes an inductive perspective, abstracting people and things from her daily encounters that reflect the circumstances of Larsen’s practice. Her paintings dissolve the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, with objects transforming fluidly into organic geometric forms. She paints with densely applied egg tempera to create the illusion of volume to allow isolated elements to become vivid archetypal forms and graphic signs.

Liv Mette Larsen was born in Oslo, Norway in 1952 and attended the Oslo SHKS School of Art and Crafts. From 1978-84 she studied at the Berlin Hochschule für Künste (UDK). In 1992 she won Berlin’s Senate Cultural Affairs Department Grant and Norway’s Vederlagsfondet Grant in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 2006. She received additional grants from the Norwegian Cultural Council in 2000, 2004 and 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Literaturhaus, Salzburg, Austria (2006), Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, Germany (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011) and Galeria Fruela, Madrid, Spain (2008). She has exhibited internationally for over three decades and her work is included in major public and private collections worldwide. Public collections include the Nasjonalgalleriet Oslo, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.

[Image: Liv Mette Larsen "Scrap Metal Heap VIII" (2011), Egg Tempera on Canvas, 79 x 59 in.]