Real Art Ways presents
NATE LARSON
CHARLATANS & TRICKSTERS
December 15 - January 29, 2006
Opening Reception Thursday, December 15, 6 - 9 PM
HARTFORD, CT: November
28, 2005
- Real Art Ways will present artist Nate Larson’s Charlatans & Trickstersexhibition in Real Art Ways’ Real Room from Thursday, December 15 through
Sunday, January 29, 2006. The exhibition opens at Real Art Ways’ Creative
Cocktail Hour, on Thursday, December 15 from 6-9 pm. The artist is scheduled
to give a talk at 5:30pm, prior to the opening. Real Art Ways is at 56 Arbor
Street in Hartford. Admission to Creative Cocktail Hour is $5 / free for Real
Art Ways members. For more information, call 860-232-1006.
Charlatans & Tricksters features Larson’s most recent work, a series
of photographic documentations, or narratives, of the “supernormal.” Clad
in a white shirt and tie, Larson poses in the photographs as an ordinary character
who experiences the depicted events. His work focuses on exposing the tension
between photographs serving as visual “proof” of an occurrence and
the process of constructing one’s system of beliefs. It straddles the line
between ordinary and extraordinary, concrete and fluid, visual substantiation
and visual allusion.
Larson treats the documentation of the occurrences as a new mode of thought development,
melding the influences of religious traditions and secular mythology. “Whether
you accept or reject (the existence of miracles), you make a choice, and that
choice is how you live your life and how you relate to your world around you.
I think that’s an intriguing thing to consider,” said Larson, in
an interview with Get Out Amarillo.
Having recently earned his MFA in Photography at Ohio State University, Larson
currently teaches Photography at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois.
His work has been featured in the "Photography Now 2004" exhibition at the Center
for Photography at Woodstock, is included in public collections at the Center
for Photography in Woodstock and is part of the Midwest Photographers Project
at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
