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“Mary
Larsen uses an intuitive approach to painting to capture her
life’s experiences and impressions in mixed media works
that combine painterly abstraction with figurative elements
and found objects. Creating images that are both abstract
and naturalistically relevant, Mary Larsen transcends the
boundaries of artistic rhetoric to discover new forms freely
and directly. Picturing them through personal sensibilities,
the subtleties of nature vie with the recognizably human and
conceptually abstract as she conveys her aesthetic response
to time and place. At the same time, she allows viewers to
participate in the world of her own experiences and enjoy
the paintings on their own terms. One is free to react to
them as demonstrations of the tactile elements of pigment,
painting’s most basic properties, or as messages triggered
by personal response”.
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