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. She exhibits photographs, videos and paintings regularly in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Chicago.

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[edit] Early 1980s

In the early 1980s she started 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

In the mid 1980s she began experimenting with digital imaging and created the Transformer series of Iris Ink jet prints in 1989. Transformer (1990) was the first digital fine art print included in the the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

In 1991 she exhibited orotone photographs taken in a Tokyo cabaret.[2]

[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 involvement with surfing.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harald Johnson, Mastering Digital Printing, Thomson Course Technology, 2002, p10. ISBN 1929685653
  2. ^ Charles Hagen, Art in Review, The New York Times, November 22, 1991.