Sally Larsen
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Sally Larsen is a multimedia artist and photographer. She was born in San Francisco in 1954 of mixed Apache / Aleut descent.
- Native American artist with a growing voice in the mainstream art world.
- Exhibits photographs, videos and paintings regularly in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Chicago.
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[edit] Early 1980s
Starts exhibiting orotone photographs (gold-leafed gelatin silver prints on glass).
Several of these modernized Nineteenth century technique photographs are to be found in Photography's Antiquarian Avant Garde, the new wave in old processes (Abrams 2002).
[edit] Since the mid 1980s
Mid 1980s begins experimenting with digital imaging and creates the ground-reaking Transformer series of Iris Ink jet prints in 1989. This early work is discussed in Mastering Digital Imaging by Harald Johnson (2002)
She was the youngest artist to ever be included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection when Transformer 1989 was added to their permanent collection.
[edit] Projected videos
Installed in San Francisco (Yerba Buena Center Surf Trip); Oakland (Oakland Museum Millennium Time Capsule); Los Angeles (Bergemot Station Surf Trip); and Seattle (Sacred Circle Big Bang).
[edit] Publishing
Japlish (Pomegranate 1993) her photographic monograph on Japanese T-shirt culture sold widely and is found in many photography book collections.
- -ine poems & In the Manner of Animals (Solo Zone 2000) features The Little Fighting Man Hsin I series of orotone photographs.
[edit] Recent work
Large-scale, Jizo Series C- prints melds photographic oeuvre with expressive hi-color paintings. Her point of view continues to be informed by Native American issues, asian martial arts and an intense invlovement with surfing.
