RETURN TO SENDER
Laura Larson + Suzanne Silver
November 19, 2020 - February 21, 2021
Image courtesy of Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver.
Return to Sender emerged through a collaborative mail exchange between Larson and Silver that began in the early months of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Ohio. Each artist would make a work in reply to one received. From this looping call and response, a collection of small works grew—a living document of the pandemic embodying the experiences of loss, sorrow, vulnerability, and rage. This exchange acts as the generative center of the exhibition. Every two weeks, the artists will take turns re-installing the show: adding and subtracting works produced through their correspondence and creating new ones in response to the developing relationships in the gallery.
Laura Larson is an artist and writer based in Columbus, OH. She earned a BA in English at Oberlin College, an MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She’s exhibited her work extensively, at such venues as Art in General, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Columbus Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFCamerawork, Susanne Vielmetter/L.A. Projects, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Her first book, Hidden Mother (2017), was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photobook Prize. Her work is represented by Contemporary Art Matters in Columbus, OH.
Suzanne Silver is Associate Professor of Art at The Ohio State University. Silver studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and received an AB from Smith College and an MFA at The Ohio State University. She has exhibited her work internationally, including the Axel Raben Gallery (NYC), Nexus Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta), Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), David Yellin College (Jerusalem), the Castle of Otranto (Otranto, Italy), Proteus Gowanus Gallery (Brooklyn), Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati), as well as in Columbus at The Bureau for Open Culture (COR&P), Angela Meleca Gallery, the Beeler Gallery at CCAD, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Her work is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Jewish Museum in NYC.
All images courtesy Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver.
The 2/18/21 Artist Talk with Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver, moderated by Danny Marcus, which includes a video walk-through of the exhibition are viewable below and on our Youtube channel.
