Caleb Larsen

Caleb Larsen is an Artist

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"Everything All The Time Right Now"
CALEB LARSEN
January 7 - February 13, 2010

Lawrimore Project is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Caleb Larsen. Originally introduced in 2008 as part of "Patch Dynamics - Six New Invasions To The Field," this is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first since receiving his MFA from R.I.S.D. The exhibition includes work in all media - video, sculpture, photographs, text-based work, internet-based work, and drawings.

Utilizing logic-based systems, Caleb Larsen traverses digital and physical spaces, identifying the existing divides and intersections between them. Akin to an explorer, Larsen writes programs and open-source codes, mining the data of familiar territories and presents the information in a way that leads to a rediscovery or reorientation of our relationship to it. Through distortion, simplification, and manipulation Larsen creates systems that critique systems revealing their social, political and psychological properties.

With the mind of an engineer and the heart of a poet, Larsen’s work is an amalgamation of exacting science, earnest sensitivity and incisive wit. Semiotics and mapping are key threads in his work. His work leverages the effects of language and mapping to translate life, media, and culture into transmedia experiences. His current areas of interest include the value of art--with new pieces that explore artist/collector, artist/dealer and artist/donor relationships--and notions of paradise and his recent relocation to the Caribbean coast of Mexico.

The title of the exhibition "Everything All The Time Right Now," is taken from a text-based work in the show and sums up the desires and ambitions of this promising young artist.