Wind and Rubble
Kyle Larson
March 1 - April 27, 2024
Wind and Rubble: Paintings and Drawings by Kyle Larson.
The mundane can find itself enmeshed with otherworldliness in the paintings of Kyle Larson. A recent transplant to Southern Oregon, Larson teaches painting and drawing at SOU in Ashland. Larson’s paintings and drawings explore notions of temporality, cycles of decay and transformation, and create a space for rhythmic, atmospheric phenomena and transitory forces to disrupt, push, and embed bodies and objects into layered narratives.
This exhibit is on view at Gambrel Gallery from March 1 until April 27, 2024.
Artist statement:
Kyle Larson is a contemporary painter. His current work explores notions of temporality, cycles of decay, and transformation through painting and drawing in which he constructs spaces where rhythmic, atmospheric phenomena and transitory forces disrupt, push, and embed bodies and objects into layered narratives. Originally from Sacramento, California, he received an MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2012 where he studied under the artist John Walker. He relocated to Oklahoma in 2015 upon accepting the position of Director of Visual Arts at Northwestern Oklahoma State University where he taught painting and drawing courses. He later served as Director of the NWOSU Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program. Larson returned to the West Coast in the Fall of 2022 after accepting his current position at SOU. Larson has exhibited his work in California, New York, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Vermont, Santiago, Chile, and Cali, Colombia, and has completed artist residencies at Mass MoCA and the Vermont Studio Center.