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Education
1975-76 Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI Studio Art.
1973-75 Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI Studio Art/ Psychology
Represented by: Trinity Gallery
Selected Exhibitions
2005 Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2004 Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2002 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gwenda Jay/ Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AR
2001 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Group Exhibition,
"Reconceptualization of Nature"
Gwenda Jay/ Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 National Museum for Women in the Arts, Group Exhibition, Washington DC
Dennos Museum, Group Exhibition, Traverse City, MI
Arden Gallery, Boston, Ma
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
1999 Arden Gallery, Boston, Ma
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta GA
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
1998 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
Perry Sherwood Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Perry Sherwood Fine Art, Petoskey, MI
1997 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Herouet, Paris, France
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL
Perry Sherwood Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Perry Sherwood Fine Art, Petoskey, MI
1996 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Galerie Herouet, Paris, France
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL
Perry Sherwood Fine Art, Petoskey, MI
1995 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL
Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Galerie Herouet, Paris, France
Perry Sherwood Fine Art, Petoskey, MI
Gay Head Gallery, Gay Head, MA
Ottens Sargent Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
1994 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
The Main Street Gallery, Leland, MI
Huzza, Harbor Springs, MI
Gay Head Gallery, Gay Head, MA
Otto Sargent Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
1993 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
Boston Artist Show, City Hall, Boston, MA
Gay Head Gallery, Gay Head, MA
1992 Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Tom Albrecht Fine Art, Acme, MI
1990 Tempe Library Juried Art Competition, Tempe, AR
Group Exchange Exhibition, Soviet Union, Tblisi
Traverse City Arts Council, Traverse City, MI
1988-90 Fort Point Channel
1979-83 Larson Studio and Gallery
Biography
A native of Northern Michigan, Jean Larson was born in Ishpeming, a small mining town in the Upper Peninsula, in 1955. Eventually moving to Traverse City in her early years, she grew up on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan. Well before her teens painting became an important element in her life, directly influenced by the natural environment surrounding her. After graduating from high school studying fine art at college was an obvious choice and it was here that her commitment to a life as a painter was confirmed. Demand for Jean’s work led to her setting up a small studio in Traverse City in which she painted and exhibited her work.
While Northern Michigan has always provided an important inspiration for her work, it became clear to Jean that she needed to broaden her exposure to the art world. This led to her moving to Boston in 1984. The move eventually proved to be an enormous boost to her career.
Within the next five years Jean’s work began to gain recognition within the United States and abroad. Galleries in Atlanta, Washington D.C., Santa Fe, Florida , Chicago, Michigan and Paris now represent her. Furthermore, 1992 saw another turning point in Jean’s life when she left the USA to travel in Europe, eventually settling in a small village in Southern France. She now divides her time between rural France, which provides much of the inspiration for her recent work, and various parts of the United States.
"At the moment my paintings are representational in as much as they depict flowers, but they are not necessarily flowers in a traditional sense. I am primarily interested in the emotional interplay between light and color that is mainly inspired by the environments in which I now live. On a number of occasions I have observed the deep emotional response people have felt when first encountering the paintings. This has been particularly gratifying as I firmly believe that the value of my work is not in what can be said about it but rather in how it can be experienced."
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