ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
LARRY STEPHENS
Invisible Ledgers is a collection of recent works by Larry Stephens.
Larry taught art, design and music at Middleton High School in Middleton Wisconsin from 1992 to 2016.
He received a B.S. in Art Education from UW Madison in 1992 and an MFA from UW Madison in 2000.
“Inspiration for creating art comes from many different fields of human endeavor. I am interested in creating forms that are visually compelling and that suggest content ripe for interpretation through association and metaphor.” — L. Stephens
“The eagerness of objects to be what we are afraid to do cannot help but move us.”
—From Interior (with Jane) Frank O’Hara
ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES
ARCHETYPE
“A typical example of something, or the original model of something from which others are copied.” Oxford Languages
Our world is defined by archetypes to create meaning and how they influence our experience of space and the world around us.
Thomas Thiis-Evensen book, Archetypes in Architectural, explores the fundamental elements of architecture and how they relate to human experience. Architecture defines the relationship between inside and outside space and is the creation of an inside within an outside. Floors, walls, and roofs define this relationship and how they contribute to our experience of space, motion, weight and substance.
Frank Lloyd Wright nearly a century before helped welcome the outside in with his prairie school style of architecture. Charactercized by horizontal lines and integration with the landscape, FLW influenced architects worldwide.
WI SPORTING CLUB
The Northwoods has a way of slowing your senses down. The way light paints in shadows or cuts through morning mist. The smell of earth underfoot in a deep canopy of evergreens or fragrant spruce wafting in waves. Hearing a loon echo across a cold body of water or mostly listening for its partners return call.
Giants of conservation such as Aldo Leopold and John Muir had a way of putting in words to what our senses already know. Or a grandparent reciting passages from these works as they tie flys, polish a camera lens, or carve a new duck call as the glow from the hearth help light the cabin.
ABIQUIU
Native daughter of Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe’s influence stretches from WI to the concrete and asphalt jungle of NYC to the sun bleached adobe facades of New Mexico. Her artistic approach or vantage point, has been lauded and copied by many. In New Mexico, where, in 1940, O’Keeffe bought a home at the Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, she wore denim and painted the landscapes, she loved to wear men’s shirts paired with bluejeans. She honed her style by borrowing from other nations, too. When she travelled to Japan, she returned with kimonos, one of which she is wore, open and loose, in a Paul Strand portrait from 1918. It’s through this vantage point we created our narrative, Abiquiu.
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