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About the Artist
Ann Larsen was born in Indiana and, at the age of 18, began traveling and living throughout the United States. Now
living in the Adirondack Mountains of New York with her photographer husband, Gary Larsen, she still travels several times a
year to paint in Maine, Colorado and California.
Ann is a representational landscape painter working in oils and pastels. Small field studies, done directly from
nature, comprise the subjects for larger paintings later created in her studio. Ann's choice to paint representational
subjects comes from a desire to describe in her own way the excitement she feels seeing how light plays across water,
or how shadows glow with illumination, or how colors change with the seasons.
Resume
Education
University of Central Oklahoma - BA Painting
Rhode Island School of Design
Indiana University
Workshops
- Landgrove, VT - Randall Sexton, California Contemporary Realist (2004, 2006)
- Denver Art Students League - Kim English
- Quartz Mountain, OK - Clair Romano and John Ross, Master Printmakers
Exhibitions
- Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA, “Plein Air Festival”
- LeKAE Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, American Women Artists National Juried Competition
- Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, NY, Juried Exhibit “Structures”
- Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, “Visions of America”, AAWA Invitational
- Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, “Small Works” Exhibition
- Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, “Impressions of New England”
- Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, “Our Warming World”
- Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, NY, “Get Your Beverages Here”
- Gallery 668, Guild of Adirondack Artists Show “New Works”, Greenwich, NY
- 54th Central Adirondack Art Exhibition, Old Forge, NY, Masters Division
- “New Works for the New Year” LARAC, Glens Falls, NY
- Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Annual Adirondack Juried Art Show
- 53rd Central Adirondack Art Exhibition, Old Forge NY, Selected to Masters Division
- SCAC Summer Show, “Win Place Show”
- 52nd Central Adirondack Art Exhibition, Old Forge NY, Selected to Masters Division
- Sacandaga Valley Arts Network (SVAN) Exhibition, Northville, NY
- New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Solo, Two and Three Person Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibit, Depot Theater, Westport, NY
- Two Person Exhibit, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mt. Lake, NY
- Three Person Exhibit, “Individual View”, Saratoga County Arts Council, Saratoga Springs, NY
- Solo Exhibit, Art in Public Places “Inner Views”, Saratoga County Arts Council,
Saratoga Springs, NY
- Solo Exhibit, Sacandaga Valley Arts Network, Northville, NY
- Two Person Exhibit, Saratoga County Arts Council, Saratoga Springs, NY
- Art in Public Places, Gallery at Wesley
Awards
- Second Place, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, “Structures” Exhibition
- Outstanding Adirondack Painting, Masters Division, 54th Central Adirondack Art Exhibition, Old Forge, NY
- Honorable Mention, Masters Division, 52nd Central Adirondack Art Exhibition, Old Forge, NY
Honors
- Oil Painters of America
- American Women Artists
- Guild of Adirondack Artists
Collections
Private and Corporate Collections
Publications
Southwest Art Magazine, July 2007
Teaching
- “Oil Painting with Ann Larsen”, and “Still Life Workshop, Saratoga County Arts Council, Saratoga Springs, NY
- “Painting the Landscape in Pastel”, workshop for Sacandaga Valley Arts Network, Northville, NY
- Drawing and painting classes for adults and children at the Fine Arts Institute, Edmond, OK
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