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Everything Lives the Other, Works by Nico Larsen

Opening First Friday, February 2, 5-8 PM & exhibiting through February
in the Main Gallery

Gallery Opening on First Friday, February 2, 5-8 PM
In the Main Gallery with works available for purchase

The ZACC is delighted to present ‘Everything Lives the Other’, works by Nico Larsen, opening in the Main Gallery on First Friday, February 2, from 5-8 PM, and exhibiting throughout the month of February. Works are available for purchase, and the artist will be present at the opening reception.

ABOUT THE ART
“Everything looks at everything, everything lives the other; in this desert things know things. Things know things so much that that’s… that’s what I’ll call forgiveness, if I want to save myself in the human world. It’s forgiveness itself. Forgiveness is an attribute of living matter.”

–Clarice Lispector

This body of work concludes my pregnancy and the first two years of my daughter's life. For many years prior my work was moving around ideas about inside/outside of the body, the environment, and the mind. After giving birth I can see that these ideas do have a form. This series of drawings and weavings share a symbolic language of round interiority that builds in intensity, spiraling both inwards and then, out. My hope is to express the soft roundness of that as love.

The majority of these drawings are done on Stonehenge cotton paper with watercolor and colored pencil. The woven works are all natural fibers, primarily Harrisville wool tapestry yarn.

“...love stories are stories of form, and that every act of solidarity is an act of sphere formation, that is to say the creation of an interior.”

–Peter Sloterdijk

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nico Larsen was born in Dallas, TX and she currently lives and works in Missoula, MT with her husband and collaborator, Landen Beckner. She studied painting at the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO before transferring to the University of Montana and studied weaving under Jo Bernofsky. Her work has been exhibited across the United States as well as abroad.

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