For the first decade or so of his career, Santa Fe-based artist Ted Larsen had been working successfully in a style he describes as “abstracted landscape.” Then in the late 1990s came a period of profound searching and dissatisfaction. “There were a few years in which I was stuck in a moment of not knowing what to do,” he says. “I was using found materials, wax, different pigments, and making bricolage and collage.” In the summer of 2001, says Larsen, he had an epiphany. “If I didn't want something to be a simulation of something, which is what most painting is, maybe I needed the real thing.”
In 2001, following the traumatic events of September 11, Ted Larsen moved into an entirely new direction. Deeply affected by this event, he spent several
David Richard Gallery in New York specializes in Post-War American abstract art, rediscovering and representing established artists who've been overlooked
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David Richard Gallery in New York specializes in Post-War American abstract art, rediscovering and representing established artists who've been overlooked
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