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Jacqui Larsen

Jacqui Larsen is an American Artist working with paints and mixed-media.

Biographical Information
Jacqui Biggs Larsen, born 1962, grew up in the suburbs of DeWitt, New York. Her father was an electrical engineer for General Electric, and her mother was a secretary for Agway. She is the middle child and has both an older and younger brother. Larsen attended Brigham Young University where she earned her BFA (1986) and MFA (1988). She also served an LDS mission in Peru from 1985-1986. She has taught at Houston Community College (1989-1992) and Northwest College (1992-1993), both in Houston, Texas. She has also taught at Brigham Young University (2016) where she co-directed a Study Abroad program to Spain, and has served on the Board of Directors for Art Access Utah. Larsen now lives with her husband and children in Springville, Utah. Her husband, Lance Larsen, was poet laureate of Utah from 2012-2017. She enjoys hiking and running in the mountains near their home. Larsen has served on the Board of Directors for Art Access Utah and is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah.

Artistic Style and Influences
Larsen works with oils, acrylics, and collages, often all in the same piece. Her works often consist of easily recognizable objects (especially houses or animals) on a floating plane. She places these representational shapes above a background of either collage, or of heavy brushstrokes similar to those found in action painting. Through her work Larsen hopes to “make sense not just of victoires but struggles we so often hide.” "Her collages demonstrate her view that human's nature is dual-part earthly and partspiritual. She explores childhood, sisterhood, and maternity in ways that question western tradition." Larsen is represented by New Vision Art.

Artist Statement
For Jacqui Larsen, art is a way to collect observations, experiences, and impressions on one visual plane. “We live double lives,” she says, “the exterior, observable life that can be captured in a snapshot and the interior life of thoughts, memories and dreams. I’m interested in the spaces where these worlds connect or collide.” Larsen’s layered paintings and collages include everyday images of suburban houses, domestic objects, and animals from birds to llamas. Ladders, staircases, rowboats and floating ropes add dimensions of transport, while collage elements of found photographs, handwriting, text, maps and blueprints act as artifacts of lived lives. “When I end a work with more questions than when I started,” she says, “I know I’m on the right track.”

Selected Exhibitions

 * 2016	Solo Show: Three Mile Radius, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
 * 2014	Painting and Sculpture: Utah Arts & Museums Statewide Annual Exhibition, Rio Gallery, SLC, UT
 * 2011	Solo Show: Magnetic North, Gallery at Library Square, SLC, UT
 * 2010	Solo Show: Animal Brilliance, Paintings of Jacqui Larsen & Poetry of Lance Larsen, Auditorium Gallery, Harold B. Lee Library, BYU, Provo, UT
 * 2009	A Product of Time and Faith, HFAC, BYU, Provo, UT
 * 2007 	Solo Show: New Work, Gallery at the Station, Ogden, UT
 * 2007	Solo Show: Rearranging the Landscape, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
 * 2007	Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, Rio Gallery, SLC, UT
 * 2007	A Show of Hands, Finch Lane Gallery, SLC, UT
 * 2006	Four Rooms, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
 * 2005	Dress, Rio Gallery, SLC, UT
 * 2005	Solo Show: What’s Lost, What’s Found, Art Access Gallery, SLC, UT
 * 2004	Metaphorically Speaking, Museum of Art, BYU, Provo, UT
 * 2002	Women Beyond Borders: Internationally Traveling Exhibition,
 * 2002	Santa Barbara, CA
 * 2001	The De-Constructed West: Four-State Fellowship Exhibition,
 * 2001	Millenium Arts Center, Washington DC,
 * 2001	Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

Fellowships and Publications
2018	Cover: Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations, by Ira Sukrungruang, Univ. of Tampa Press 2018	Cover: What the Body Knows, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2018	Cover: Literature and Belief, Brigham young University, Spring Issue 2017	Featured Artist, Prayers in Bath, Mormon Artists Group, 2017 2016	Featured Artist, Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg, PA, Spring Issue 2014	Cover: Rattle, Studio City, CA, Spring Issue #43 2013	Cover: Genius Loci, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2009	Anderson Center Fellowship Award, Red Wing, MN Cover: Backyard Alchemy, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2006	Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Utah Arts Council 2005	Cover: In All Their Animal Brilliance, by Lance Larsen, Univ. of Tampa Press 2002	Lt. Governor’s Award, Lt. Governor’s Show, The Rotunda, SLC, UT

Partnerships and Collaborations
2018	Artist Partner, with Yapay Bolivia, a non-profit charitable organization 2017	Artist Partner, with the Utah Chamber Artists

Museums and Public Collections
State of Utah Art Collection, SLC, UT Harold B. Lee Library, BYU, Provo, UT Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Museum of Church History and Art, SLC, UT