Tomorrow's Memory Paintings by Paul Larson

                                            The Mayor’s Gallery presents

                                        Tomorrows’s Memory

                                          Paintings by Paul Larson

                                   September 4 – November 1, 2013

                         Reception: September 12th from 5:30 -7:30pm

           10th floor, Government Center, 888 Washington Blvd. Stamford, CT 06901

                         For more information contact: Lina Morielli 203 858 3082

                                                   The Note is Eternal: Oil on canvas

Paul Larson’s cubist influenced compositions are based upon the use of multifaceted geometric forms, the illusion of overlapping and intersecting planes, improbable perspectives, and subtle transitions of tonal passages that invariably tease the eye. His images most often depict the highly stylized solitary figure, usually set within a similarly stylized landscape. He describes his work as “an exploration into alternate views of the world never seen before” and as “a personal process of bringing what is hidden to light, and revealing what is unknown or forgotten to awareness.”

Studying with Charles Peterson (AWS), William Gerhold, and Thomas Higgins, he graduated with degrees in Fine Art and Education from Marietta College in 1973. From 1975 until 1985 Paul worked as an artist, designer, and project director for the design firm L. E. Carpenter & Company in Milford, CT.

In 1986 Paul began a successful career in Greenwich real estate sales and new home construction. During these years Paul’s passion for art remained strong and he continued painting whenever time would allow. In 2009 he returned to his work as a serious painter with renewed dedication.

A current member of the Greenwich Art Society, the Loft Artists Association in Stamford, CT, and Art/Place Gallery in Fairfield, CT he has exhibited regularly since 1975. His paintings in oil, pastel, and acrylic have been recognized with many awards, and his artwork has been acquired by numerous collectors both in the U.S. and abroad.

Paul explains his work as a process of finding what has been lost, bringing the obscure to awareness, and recollection of that which has been forgotten. With the intention of exploring the mystery of personally perceived realities, and to report what is found to others, his hope is that the viewers of his work may find something familiar to their world as well; perhaps providing an insight, evoking a memory long forgotten, or eliciting an emotion somehow familiar, and perhaps long unfelt. pglarson.com