Molly Larkey

American artist

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Molly Larkey (born December 31, 1971) is an American artist.

Larkey, the daughter of American singer-songwriter Carole King and bass player Charles Larkey,^[1] was educated at Columbia University and Rutgers University.^[2] She is a sculptor working with a variety of materials whose work references formalism and abstraction combined with symbolic imagery and bright colours.^[3]

She is concerned with the way in which art functions as a means of communication.^[4] She has made pencil copies of drawings and manuscript pages of famous writers who have died by suicide.^[5]

She has had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 in 2007.^[6] She is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Selected exhibitions

2000

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

2001

An Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Women Artists, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica

2004

Black Milk, Marvelli Gallery, New York

2005

LineAge, The Drawing Center, New York
Off My Biscuit, Destroy Your District!, Samson Projects, Boston

2007

Project Room, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City^[6]
M*A*S*H, Smith-Stewart, New York
I Died For Beauty, Newman Popiashvilli Gallery, New York
Da Damage, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn

References

^ "Harmonic Emergence". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^ Villarreal, Ignacio. "The First Art Newspaper on the Net". Artdaily.org. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^ "SUNDAY L.E.S. - forum". www.sundaynyc.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^ "Molly Larkey". franconia.org. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^ Johnson, Ken (July 16, 2004). "Art in-Review; 'black milk' – 'theories of suicide'". The New York Times.
^ ^a ^b "MoMA PS1". www.ps1.org. Retrieved January 19, 2018.