ARTIST STATEMENT

Steen Larsen is a Danish realist painter and photographer using roads and streets as a source for his artwork.

He is one of a small group of artists using the mimetic approach in their work – meaning they reflect reality through precision in both detail and expression. Conceptually, his work with urban settings centres on the tracks mankind leaves behind in nature. While driving and traveling in the USA and Europe, Larsen mounts a camera on the windshield of his car and shoots thousands of photos that later serve as sketches for his oil paintings. His photo-based paintings are narratives mimicking a road movie on canvas. Speed is captured at its essence, as well as other present-day scenes.

Recent awards and exhibitions in 2016 include an Artist Residency at ESKFF located at MANA Contemporary Art Centre, NJ, USA, a group exhibition at Townley Gallery, Laguna Beach, as well as a solo exhibition at Gallery Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway. In January 2015, the work was exhibited at the Annual ESKFF Auction at Mana Contemporary NYC, and in December 2014, Larsen exhibited at Haupt in Basel, Switzerland, and the Gallery V58 Aarhus, Denmark. His work was included in the “Painting and Its Contexts” exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2013, and “Danish Landscapes”, Astley Hall Art Gallery, Manchester, England, in 2006, and Halmstad Art Museum, Sweden, in 2005

Steen Larsen’s work can be seen in the book “Road” published for his solo show at Art Centre Sophienholm and Art Centre Silkeborg Bad.