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The Council Gathers in Time by Dean and Laura Larson

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Saturday, 8 September 2018 to Friday, 12 October 2018
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Saturday, 8 September 2018 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Artist couple Dean and Laura Larson open poetic, surreal solo show at LAAA/Gallery 825 September 8th

 

The Council Gathers in Time by 

Dean and Laura Larson

 

 

OPENING RECEPTION ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 6-9 PM; ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 12TH, 2018

 

LAAA (Gallery 825) 

825 N. La Cienaga Blvd.  

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tuesday-Saturday 10-5 PM

https://www.laaa.org/

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1885026094869790/

 

 

(Los Angeles, CA) Spanning several years to date, Laura and Dean Larson’s artistic collaborations mark the completion of their third body of work entitled The Council Gathers in Time. In continuing the use of sculpted human-animal hybrid figurines photographed in European locales, the duo’s playful mixture of mediums sets the stage for unforeseen lyrical encounters. 

 

The work’s retracing of historical events through its ‘council’ of human-animal hybrid characters are presented also independently as sculpture. The bronze-casted figurines references the poses and scale of The Mourners, a series of 14th and 15th century alabaster figurines of monks and clerics encircling a tomb. These small-scale embodiments of late medieval devotion inspire the Larson’s figures as they are too, found encircled in various locales throughout Europe. With nineteen figures in all, their animal heads reveal themselves to be among various endangered species. 

 

Mounted continuously across three gallery walls will be an archival pigment print on canvas inspired by the medieval Bayeaux tapestry, a weaving over two-thousand feet long illustrating the story of the events of 1064-1066 culminating in the Battle of Hastings. The Council Gathers in Time depicts the travels of the Council from the home planet to this planet as they come to discover the cause of its sixth mass extinction. This journey continues across the Baltic Sea, Scandinavia, Finland, Russia and Germany. 

 

For more information on Laura and Dean Larson’s collaborations and individual work, please visit their website: 

 

http://www.larsonart.net/index.html

 

LAAA (Gallery 825 is located at:

825 N. La Cienaga Blvd.  

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tuesday-Saturday 10-5 PM

Venue ( Address ): 

825 N. La Cienaga Blvd.  

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tuesday-Saturday 10-5 PM

https://www.laaa.org/

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