Short Biography
Steven Larson (b. 1977) has been an active visual artist for over 20 years, creating paintings and works on paper. A consistent member of the arts community in Salt Lake City UT, Larson has exhibited regularly, and has been represented by galleries on both east and west coasts. His paintings are housed in private and public collections nationally and abroad. Executed in a nonrepresentational manner, often the paintings and drawings require close examination. Concepts are interpretable, involving ethereal states of environment, in survey of ethnocentric ideology and construct. Larson strives to evolve in new and thought provoking ways artistically.
Statement
Often perceived in my work is an event of unfamiliarity involving physical geologic morphing and movement. Physical form and mass are confused with flesh, debris, and foliage. Much like observing any given environment, viewers navigate compositions via personal inference, while dissonantly adjusting to the continuance of phenomena. Artistic evolution and experimentation are the main factors that have sustained my interest in visual art. Both technical and conceptual exploration reflects how I am in constant flux as a person. Through the interplay of coarse abstraction and fine detail, my work conveys a feeling of unsettled, unresolved, or impermanent forms. My past work explored many themes including complacency towards war, classism, human centrism, and the warming climate. My current work decenters human-constructed meaning, creating feelings of calmness by focusing on a primordial scale of big skies and notions of landscape.
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