Larry's Gallery

The Gallery Walls

In the first gallery is some of my newer work, a return to doing funky clouds!

In Gallery 2 is a flashback. Because I am currently working on a new series of funky cloud forms, I thought it might be fun to post some earlier work that I have never shown. These are all ink brush paintings on rice paper dry mounted to canvas.

I am represented by the artistica.shop of the Academy Center of the Arts.

You can find more of my work there by clicking the button below. If you don't find what you're looking for at artistica.shop, simply contact me via the "contact" link above. I will post anything you see here that interests you for purchase at artistica.

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About the images in Gallery 1...

Visual Koans

...they are a series on canvas inspired by an etching from a friend of mine. Each painting is an exercise in form, design, and color that I call a visual koan.

Akin to koans used in Zen, they are compositions that intend to confront and confound any obvious or hasty interpretation. The title of the painting and its expression on canvas work together. They do not illustrate, interpret, or represent anything merely logical. They are a puzzle that is deliberate in its composition but not one that allows for a single solution. There are many “right” responses. Their intent is not to confuse or baffle, but to delight with a bit of whimsy. It's like waking up to a thing that is not a thing.

It may take many tries for me to get one right. If I'm lucky, you'll know when I do.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED "The Fall of the House of Glass"

Here's the Pitch...

What happens when you find a book in a landmark New York bookstore by the reclusive author, J.D. Salinger? Nothing until you discover that it was a publisher’s review copy that never came to print. And then you discover that no one’s ever heard of it and for all intents and purposes it has simply disappeared.

This is the true story of a fascinating and haunting chain of events that links the author with an improbable correspondent, a renown international biographer, the BBC, and either a surprising revelation or a well imagined answer to the title he found on that bookstore table that started it all.

The reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, haunts the background of this real life story but it's not a book about him. It's a story that raises the question of where exactly does one draw the line between fact and fiction? Even if you're not a fan of Salinger or haven't read him you're likely to find this a compelling mystery.

What the Critics say:

This had me glued. Bravo! Absolutely captivating!

Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Drew University, author of Willa Cather's New York and After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather

Strange compelling story. We really enjoyed reading it. Thank you for letting us see it.

Roger Angell, The New Yorker

Fascinating and well written...most interested in the new light it sheds on J.D. Salinger.

The American Scholar

Intriguing. . .

The Atlantic

TO ORDER

Softcover:

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As an eBook (free!):

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