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Mernet Larson: Reverse Perspective

Mernet Larson, Card Players, painting using reverse perspective with flattened, tilted table and figures rendered in blocky planar forms
Mernet Larson painting installed in gallery, showing reverse perspective interior scene with distorted spatial recession
Mernet Larson paintings on view at Various Small Fires gallery, 2015, showing multiple reverse perspective works
Mernet Larson, figure painting with strong reverse perspective, angular planar construction of interior space and seated figure
Mernet Larson, interior painting with multiple figures, reverse perspective causing planes to tip forward toward the viewer
Mernet Larson, painting of figures at a table, angular planar geometry creating flattened, spatially ambiguous composition
Mernet Larson, Aw, 2003, oil on canvas, reverse perspective landscape with geometric planar structure

Amazing reverse perspective, planar structure paintings by Mernet Larson (who started making these at age 75). Thanks to Shannon Ryan at UArts for the heads up on this artist.

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