About Molly Larkey and his art

Molly Larkey’s The Revolutionary playfully incorporates elements of formalist abstraction with its symbolic subject matter. Constructed from a variety of materials, Larkey gives her sculpture a rainbow treatment of brightly coloured paint, each rough hewn component compiling as a topsy-turvy monument, inciting both Modernist art history and hippie psychedelia. With her theatrical assemblage, Larkey frames these disparate ideas as humorously dysfunctional; relating the dynamics of power with the festivity of grass roots endeavour.

For her P.S.1 project, Molly Larkey presents "The Believers," a new series of sculptures that combine abstraction and figuration to comment on political and social ideologies. Her 2007 sculpture, which shares the same title, consists of candy-colored horizontal and vertical elements evoking a religious cross, minimalist grid, and medieval torture device. As in her previous work, Larkey is interested in the boundaries that separate the individual and the world. The series explores how ideology intersects with personal identity and how belief can act as a wide ranging agent--one of exclusivity, violence, spiritual transcendence, and social change.

Molly Larkey (b. 1971) was born in Los Angeles and has been exhibiting her artwork since 1996. She received her MFA from Rutgers University in 2000 and has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space and P.S. 122 Gallery, both in New York. Larkey has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at such galleries and institutions as The Drawing Center, New York; Samson Projects, Boston; and Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Only a culture that had truly feared the bomb could have laughed at Dr. Strangelove. Perhaps a generation raised on Tom Clancy and Red Dawn is one that is uncertain how to be afraid. The show’s younger artists exhibit something more like skittishness. Lisi Raskin, a recent MFA, paints a lurid German bunker. It’s kind of creepy, kind of cool. I waited for something to happen. Molly Larkey, slightly older, sets a bright, lumpy bloom of fallout atop a two-tone plinth, announcing, in the title, I made a bomb. Here is a youthful theory of deterrence. Mutually assured destruction? Yuck! The lone foray into earnestness, Mark Handelman’s noisy Flag Dispersion, is overly deliberate. Though its lofty title betrays ambition, this is plainly a picture of Old Glory getting blown to hell. The best of the lot is Shiva Ahmadi, whose calligraphic paintings tease the accouterments of military Iran–jackboots, barrels, warheads–into the tidy courts of the medieval Persian miniature.

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