HAROLD
E. LARSEN
Born in Gowen, Michigan; 1934
Larsen’s
most overwhelming paintings, the large-scale works, convey, in
wholly abstract terms, those same titanic subjects undertaken by the
great Romantics of the last century, like Turner; the Romantic,
abstractionist or not, is most at home where worlds collide, where
volcanoes erupt, where deluge sweeps everything from its path. Hal
Larsen has no qualms peering into the abyss or imagining the
supernal.
The launch pad, the point of departure for the sometimes
hallucinatory works, we hasten to add, remains landscape, through
only rarely do we detect a horizon line or other earthly landmark to
get our bearings. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke coined the term
"inscape" to describe certain works of early modern art, and this is
perhaps an apt description of Hal Larsen’s work, for he reveals,
through pure color, the "state of the soul", an "inscape" as real
for him as anything in observable nature. It is Larsen’s goal to
objectify the subjective, to make visible and tangible his
apparently rampant passions, in a way that mere representation
rarely can. Jan Ernst Adlmann / Santa Fe, Nm December 1999
Selected
National Exhibitions 1990 – Present
1998 Kentucky Watercolor Society, Aqueous USA ’98. Louisville,
Kentucky
1998 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, New York,
New York
1998 Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition, Dalton, Georgia
1997 Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition, Macon, Georgia
1993 Watercolor USA Art Exhibition, Springfield, Missouri
1991 Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
1990 Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
1990 Watercolor, USA, Springfield, Missouri
Selected
Regional Exhibitions 1994 – Present
2002 1 – Person Show, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Group Show "Bridging Time & Space," SLMM, San
Rafael, California
1999 2 – Person Show, Joyce Petter Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan
1999 1 – Person Show, Adieb Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
1999 1 – Person Show, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Group Show "Celtic Connections," SLMM, Haverhill,
Massachusetts
1999 1 – Person Show, Adieb Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
1999 1 – Person Show, Waxlander Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe,
New Mexico
1999 2 – Person Show, Joyce Petter Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan
1997 1 – Person Show, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997 1 – Person Show, Waxlander Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe,
New Mexico
1997 Group Show "Selections," Shiela Nussbaum Drill, New
Marlborough, Massachusetts
1997 1 – Person Show, Adieb Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
1996 1 – Person Show, Waxlander Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe,
New Mexico
1996 1 – Person Show, Adieb Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
1996 3 – Person Show, Bell Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1995 1 – Person Show, Waxlander Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe,
New Mexico
1995 1 – Person Show, Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994 Group Show, Joyce Petter Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan
Collections:
Museums
Battle Creek Art Museum, Michigan
Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody, Wyoming
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
American Embassies
Bulgaria, Mexico, The Vatican
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