H. Peik Larsen / Walking Prints​ / Installation View

H. Peik Larsen / Walking Prints​ / Installation View

H. Peik Larsen / Walking Prints​ / Installation View

H. Peik Larsen / Walking Prints​ / Installation View

H. Peik Larsen / Walking Prints​ / Installation View

H. Peik Larsen / Walking Prints​ / Installation View

H. Peik Larsen, Plates 1& 2, Book of Running, 2016, intaglio, 6 x 18 inches, edition of 15
 

H. Peik Larsen, Plates 3 & 4, Book of Running, 2015, chine colle, intaglio, 6 x 18 inches, edition of 15

 

 

H. Peik Larsen, Plates 5 & 6, Book of Running, 2016, intaglio, 6 x 18 inches, edition of 15
 
H. Peik Larsen, Plates 7 & 8, Book of Running, 2016, chine colle, intaglio, 6 x 18 inches, edition of 15

H. Peik Larsen, Plates 9 & 10, Book of Running, 2016, chine colle, intaglio, 6 x 18 inches, edition of 15

 

H. Peik Larsen, Running Roller 5, 2016, multiple of presensitized zinc, wood, 11.5 x 3 x 3 inches, edition of 5
 

H. Peik Larsen, Running Roller 8, 2016, multiple of presensitized zinc, wood, 11.5 x 3 x 3 inches, edition of 5

H. Peik Larsen, Running Roller 9, 2016, multiple of presensitized zinc, wood, 11.5 x 3 x 3 inches, editon of 5

H. Peik Larsen, Running Board, 2016, monotype, 10 x 72 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Small Stroll, 2015, chine colle, intaglio, 7 x 28.5 inches, edition of 10
 

H. Peik Larsen, Stairs, 2014, photogravure, 20 x 30 inches, edition of 10

H. Peik Larsen, Walking, 2013, intaglio, chine colle, 6.5 x 65 inches, edition of 10
 
H. Peik Larsen, Book of Running Vol. 4, 2016, ultrachrome on synthetic muslin, 42.5 x 40.75 inches, edition of 3
 
H. Peik Larsen, 5th State, 2016, ultrachrome on wood, 10 x 48 inches, edition of 5
 
H. Peik Larsen, 3rd State, 2016, ultrachrome on wood, 10 x 48 inches, edition of 5
 
 
H. Peik Larsen, Book of Running Vol. 3, 2016, ultrachrome on synthetic muslin, 60 x 58.5 inches, edition of 3
H. Peik Larsen, Blue Orchard, 2016, trace monotype, 30.5 x 41.5 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, 3 Stairs, 2015, trace monotype, 31 x 33.25 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking/Seal, 2016, multiple of wood, metal, rubber, presensitized zinc, low fired clay, kitakata, 11.5 x 16 x 1.5 inches, edition of 6
H. Peik Larsen, Walking/Roller, 2016, wood roller, 6 x 4 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking Roller, 2016, woodcut print, 6 x 12 inches, edition of 7
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking/Taverna, 2016, mixed media, 8 x 20 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking Cup, 2015, clay, 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches, edition of 25
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking/Trace, 2015, pencil, tracing paper, 9 x 15 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking Notes, 2016, ultrachrome print, 6 x 18 inches, edition of 6
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking V, 2014, monoprint, 10 x 22.5 inches
H. Peik Larsen, Cambium, 1995-2016, mixed media on board, 10 x 7.5 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking/Box, 1989-2016, watercolor on wood, 4 x 4 x 4 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Champlain, 2014, watercolor on board, 8 x 10 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Garden La Foce, 2012, watercolor, 7 x 9 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Cypress, 2012, pastel, watercolor on paper, canvas, board, 8 x 10 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Cornwall, 2012, monotype, 4 x 6 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Bristlecone, 2007, oil on wafer board, 6.5 x 9.5 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Lilium Caravan, 2015, pencil, watercolor, monotype, 9 x 7 inches 
 
H. Peik Larsen, 4 Models, 2014, monotype, 8 x 12 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Notebook 9 (Blue 2), 2013, pencil, litho crayon, 6 x 18 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Notebook 8 (Page 4), 2014, pencil, trace monotype, 6 x 18 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Notebook 8 (Page 6), 2014, trace monotype, pencil, stencil, 6 x 18 inches
 
H. Peik Larsen, Walking Stairs, 2016, acrylic, pencil, ultrachrome, okawara, 11 x 14 inches
 

PEIK LARSEN

"Walking Prints"

December 8, 2016 – January 15, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Peik Larsen

Walking Prints

December 8th, 2016 – January 15th, 2017

Opening reception Thursday, December 8th, 7pm - 10pm

 

Freight+Volume is delighted to announce Peik Larsen’s new solo exhibition, Walking Prints. The exhibition displays Larsen’s virtuosic mastery of printmaking techniques and deep personal rapport with the medium, which he has distilled over the years into a uniquely diaristic and observational practice. 

 

In more ways than one, Larsen’s art is defined by a fascination with process. Thematically, he is attracted to entropy, showcased in earlier works such as Bristol, a series of twelve prints tracking the changes in a rural landscape over the course of almost thirty years, and Shades of Home, an artist’s book that reflects upon the ins and outs of quotidian domestic life. For Larsen, printmaking itself engenders this cumulative approach, with old work suggesting new artistic directions, and vice-versa. Speaking on this aspect of his craft, he muses, “That's one of the things I love about printmaking, you preserve the archaeological probing for future discovery.”

 

Walking Prints takes as its inspiration his wife’s recovery after a bicycle accident, a two-month-long period in which she had to relearn basic motor skills as well as her ability to walk. Following her as she took her first hesitant steps kindled in the artist a fascination with walking, which he tracks sequentially throughout the works in the show. Larsen’s sensitivity to the process of printmaking and cumulative change is particularly well-suited to this aim, and one senses in his prints an analog of sorts to his wife’s rediscovery of the act of walking, itself a process. 

 

In Walking/Seal, an assemblage of a print and the tools used to make it, the artist gives a concrete statement of this reciprocal relationship, juxtaposing the mechanics of technique with the movement of walking, shown in the print. To make this work the artist carved directly into a printmaking brayer, a tool historically used to break up and spread ink on a plate. Instead, Larsen is cutting out the middle man and bypassing the printing plate in favor of a more direct application of content to material and ink to paper. The other prints in the exhibition comprise a diverse variety of printmaking forms, ranging from chine colle, intaglio, and photogravure, among others, demonstrating Larsen’s devotion to the material exploration of printmaking.

 

Peik Larsen studied art at Middlebury College and the San Francisco Art Institute, and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts College graduate program. He has worked as a professional printer at Fox Graphics in Boston and Via Santa Reparata in Italy. He shows his paintings, prints, and books at Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston, DNA in Provincetown, and Freight+Volume in New York City, and is in many collections in this country and in Europe. For many years he taught printmaking at Harvard and has been a visiting artist and critic at New England art schools.

 

Please join us for the opening reception with the artist on Thursday, December 8th from 7 to 10pm. Accompanying the exhibition is a full-color, limited edition artist's book, available for sale. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please contact nick@freightandvolume.com, or call 212.691.7700.