Larissa Lockshin paints verdant abstractions on unprimed, hand-dyed satin. With pearly fabric as her canvas, Lockshin suggests landscapes and horizons, balancing crude wood carving and matte textures with a vivid, romantic color palette. Lockshin’s practice has evolved to hand-dyed fabrics and hand-carved frames that blur the lines between painting, drawing and sculpture. Her hand conjures hearts, stars, birds, petals, quivering grasses are tugged in opposition as they dance on luminous supports. The gestures tend toward soft ocellated forms, mottled leopardine eyes, smudgy vegetal blots in a garden. These wavering strokes mimic the shape of thoughts, waves of emotion, as if the wind might change course at any moment, carrying wisps of cinder or a hint of morning frost.
b. 1992, Toronto, Canada
EDUCATION
2014
BFA, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Arcadia and Elsewhere”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2023
“Apricity”, 12.26 TX, Dallas, Texas
“TERRA”, La Maison du Pommard with Pipeline Contemporary, Burgundy, France
KIAF Seoul, Cob Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
“Clear Moon, Frost Soon”, Europa, New York, NY (SOLO)
“Under a Lilac-bleeding Star”, Cob Gallery, London, England (SOLO)
“Still There Are Seeds To Be Gathered” with Giorgio van Meerwijk, Pipeline Contemporary, London, England
“Nuevos Paisajes”, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Felix Art Fair, Europa, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Widow's Walk? (Solo), Y2K Group, New York, NY
NADA New York, Europa, New York, NY
2021
"Shift," Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Solo exhibition, Galeria Pelaires, Mallorca, Spain
2020
“Iced Rowanberries”, The Newsstand Project, Los Angeles, CA
“Cadmio Limon”, curated by Cristina Anglada, Galeria Pelaires, Majorca, Spain
NADA “This is Fair”, Melanie Flood Projects
ARCO Lisboa, Galeria Pelaires
2019
"Mal" curated by Underground Flower & The Sunroom, Richmond, VA
"Elephant Heart" (Solo), Y2K Group, Tribeca, NYC
"Fashion Club" (Solo), Thumbelina's, NYC
"Scarecrow Show", curated by Abby Lloyd, Dennis Witkin & Hadley Vogel, Watermill, NY
"Metal Meadow", Camp Eternal Hell Chamber, NY
"Odette" (Solo), Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
"Bad Dream House" (Solo), American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings (UBOI), Tucson
2018
"Exit Soul", Liberal Arts Roxbury, New York
"Moondog", East Hampton Shed, New York
"Apertura", Galerie Albert Baronian, Knokke, Belgium
"#98", Museum Gallery, New York
2017
“Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art”, Birmingham Museum of Art
“Poison Apple”, with Kelly Akashi & Mindy Rose Schwartz, East Hampton Shed, NY
“Cool World", Club Pro, Los Angeles, CA
"Nightline", 44th Drive Pier, New York, NY
“Laurel”, curated by Laurence Dujardyn, Tatiana Kronberg & Rosie Motley, NY
“Last Paradise”, Curated by Special Ops/NOYFB, Pacific Ocean, Oahu, Hawaii (Online)
2016
“Bone Dry” with Stephanie Hier, Three Four Three Four, New York, NY
Art Brussels (Solo Project), Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels
“Blue Plate Special”at Dead Horse Bay, New York, NY
The Armory Show with Albert Baronian Gallery, New York, NY
2015
“Please Walk In Between Not On The Green”, Hallandale, FL
“Far Side Of The Valley”, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels (Solo)
“Close But No Cigar”, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York (Solo)
Material Art Fair with East Hampton Shed, Mexico City (Solo)
“Shoot the Lobster at Deauville” curated by S. Gernsbacher & JPW3, Miami, FL
“Picture/Painting/Object” Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels
2014
“Abigail Vogel & Larissa Lockshin” East Hampton Shed, NY
“Sad Plinth”Chelsea Mini Storage, NY
“To The Happy Few” Jeanroch Dard, Paris
“QSM” 80/80, New Bedford, MA
2013
“Space Whole Karaoke” Middlemarch Gallery, Brussels
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Metal Window
Nightline
Last Paradise
Blue Plate Special
Paunting
Sad Plinth
Please Walk In Between Not On The Green
Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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