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Bryan Larsen
(Born 1975)
Transit
Oil on panel
22 x 14 inches
Framed dimensions: 23.125 x 15.125 inches
Signed
Provenance
Bryan Larsen
Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., New York City
BIOGRAPHY
If you asked 8-year-old Bryan what he wanted to be when he grew up, he probably would have said “an astronaut”, although he actually spent most of his free time drawing.
All through school, Bryan was known for his artistic talent, and was fortunate to be encouraged and supported by his parents and teachers. After graduation, he considered a career in children’s book illustration and in aerospace engineering before finally making the decision to pursue fine art full time.
Influenced by painters like William Bouguereau, Alma Tadema, Maxfield Parrish, and Norman Rockwell, Bryan wanted to create paintings in a realistic style that were not only beautiful, but also told a story…paintings that celebrated human knowledge, mathematics, architecture, science and engineering. His love of space was on display from the beginning (his first painting to sell portrayed a father and son watching the launch of a Saturn V rocket) and over the years, his themes began to coalesce around a sense of optimism and excitement about the future, with a focus on curiosity, creativity, innovation, and the drive to explore new frontiers...all while showing an appreciation for natural beauty.
Often inspired by his kids, many of Bryan’s recent paintings depict children engaged in acts of curiosity or discovery, often in settings that juxtapose natural landscapes with futuristic elements, or that are set in a romanticized, possible future.
Bryan says the goal of his work is not to paint science fiction, but to create a visual world that inspires the viewer… a world the viewer can imagine for themselves or their children, no matter who they are…a world that is exciting and beautiful, full of possibility, and worth working towards. He likes to leave parts of the narrative of each painting open to the viewer’s interpretation in order to encourage them to step into that world and fill in the details.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, he hopes the exotic, futuristic settings for otherwise familiar scenes highlight the timelessness of the human desire to explore, learn, discover, and understand more about ourselves and our place in the universe, and that an astronaut, their space ship in the distance, watching a sunrise on Earth might encourage the viewer to see the natural beauty we have all around us from a new perspective, as the truly incredible and rare thing it is, even in a galaxy of wonders.
