Larry Silver Paintings: Purple Madonna without Language, oil/clay panels, 10 x 16", 2009

Bio
I have been living and working in downtown Manhattan since 1976. My work has been shown in group and one person exhibitions in national and international venues. Some include: Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC; Laura Henry Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Rose Burlingham, NYC; Basel Art Fair, Switzerland; Parrish Art Musuem, Southhampton, NY; PS122 NYC; Barbican Art Center, London; Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC; PPOW Gallery, NYC; Lannon Gallery, NYC; Indianapolis Museum of the Arts, IN, Centro Mascarella, Bologna, Italy. Paintings and drawings are also held in several private and public collections.

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Artist Statement
My work is composed of oil paint mixtures, graphite and pastel which interlock on the clay surface of the paintings' panels. The face of each painting is a delicate skin that is partially stripped away to expose references to diagrammatic notations, molecular bundles, Venetian walls; a collection of time worn graffiti. This grouping of translucent applications of marks, drips, pourings and sandings suggest the sensation of the moment right before action. The simultaneity of appearance and dissolve is an ode to the fusion of time and memory.