Molly Larkey Explained

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
• M*A*S*H, Smith-Stewart, New York
• I Died For Beauty, Newman Popiashvilli Gallery, New York
• Da Damage, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn

External links

• Official website
• Molly Larkey information from the Saatchi Gallery
• Information from ArtistsSpace.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: Harmonic Emergence. January 19, 2018.
2. Web site: The First Art Newspaper on the Net . Ignacio. Villarreal . Artdaily.org . January 19, 2018.
3. Web site: SUNDAY L.E.S. - forum. www.sundaynyc.com. January 19, 2018. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080324000317/http://www.sundaynyc.com/molly-larkey.html. March 24, 2008.
4. Web site: Molly Larkey . franconia.org . January 19, 2018.
5. News: Ken . Johnson . Art in-Review; 'black milk' – 'theories of suicide' . . July 16, 2004 .
6. Web site: MoMA PS1. www.ps1.org. January 19, 2018.