Sally Larsen

Sally Larsen is a multimedia artist, photographer, composer, and email advocate.She was born in San Francisco in 1954 of mixed Apache / Aleut descent. She exhibits photographs, videos and paintings in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Chicago. She employs a wide variety of materials and digital tools. [Neeli Cherkovski, "Japlish" (Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco 1993; ISBN 1-56640-454-1)]

Recent work

*2008: "The German Eye in America." Using digital tools directed through the internet to study German photography in America, Sally Larsen proposes that epigenetic issues sway aesthetics. The physical basis for the study center is a library of books and magazines which contain published photographs of the Americas taken by German-born photographers. This ongoing project utilizes the internet and clearly defined determining factors to propose and assemble a comprehensive visual data mine involving 280 photographers and spanning 160 years.

*2006: "DNA: the Diaspora of Native Americans". Sally Larsen poses questions about the genetics of aesthetics and the confluence of art and genetics. Her ongoing DNA email campaign proposes to unite all Native Americans via DNA testing to self define the greater Diaspora of Native Americans.

*2001: "Jizo Series." In the wake of September 11, 2001, Sally Larsen begins a large-scale C- print series which melds her photographic oeuvre with expressive hi-color "gluon" paintings.

During the 1980s and 1990s

*2000: "Millenniumm Time Capsule" and "Water, a Word Worth a Thousand Pictures" at the Oakland Museum of California use multi-media to explore the complex issue of water.

*2000: "In the Manner of Animals" celebrates twenty years of Chinese cultural exploration and martial art study with "The Little Fighting Man Series. [Bart Alberti and Sally Larsen, "-ine poems and In the Manner of Animals", Solo Zone Publishing 2000, p.40-63 ISBN 1-886163-07-3]

*1993: "Japlish" presents 10 years of Sally Larsen's Asian photography from the streets of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. [Neeli Cherkovski, "Japlish", Pomegranate, 1993, ISBN 1-56640-454-1]

*1991: Sally Larsen exhibits orotone prints of photographs taken in an infamous Tokyo cabaret known as "Shiroi Heya" or "The White Room". [Charles Hagen, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D91F3EF931A15752C1A967958260 "Art in Review"] , "The New York Times", November 22, 1991.]

*1990: "Transformer" becomes the first digital fine art print included in the permanent collection of the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art. Working with David Coons and Graham Nash, Sally Larsen creates the "Transformer" series of Iris Ink jet prints in 1989. She had began experimenting with digital imaging in the mid 1980s. [Harald Johnson, "Mastering Digital Printing", Thomson Course Technology, 2002, p10. ISBN 1929685653]
*1982: Sally Larsen begins an ongoing series of monochrome images presented as orotone photographs (gold-leafed gelatin silver prints on glass). [Lyle Rexer, "Photography's Antiquarian Avant Garde, the new wave in old processes", Abrams 2002, p78/79 ISBN 0-8109-0402-0] .

Installations with Projected Video Frescos

San Francisco (Yerba Buena Center "Surf Trip" 2000); Oakland (Oakland Museum "Millennium Time Capsule" 2000); Los Angeles (Bergemot Station "Surf Trip" 2001); and Seattle (Sacred Circle "Big Bang" 2001).

Images contributed to Wikipedia

In addition to the images on this page, search:
* Wu Zuoren
* orotone

Publishing

*1993: Japlish (Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco 1993; ISBN 1-56640-454-1) photographic monograph on Japanese T-shirt culture. Introduction by Neeli Cherkovski.

*2000: -ine poems & In the Manner of Animals (Solo Zone 2000) features "The Little Fighting Man / Hsin I" series of orotone photographs. With Bartolomé Alberti.

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