Mernet Larsen's preparatory sketches featured in solo show at The Armory Show 2017

At The Armory Show 2017, Various Small Fires gallery from Los Angeles presented a solo exhibition of preparatory sketches by painter Mernet Larsen in the Presents section. Larsen, based in Tampa, Florida, also had a work displayed at James Cohan Gallery's booth during the same fair. Her artistic recognition has grown notably after retiring from a long career in art education, with faculty meetings often serving as a recurring theme in her work. Larsen's imagery, which blends humor with abstract influences and Japanese print techniques, explores unconventional perspective systems. She employs parallel perspective, reverse perspective, and rigorous combinations of different spatial approaches within single pieces, avoiding traditional single-point perspective. This method destabilizes the viewer's position, sometimes creating a vertiginous effect, to encourage a deeper understanding of depicted situations. The exhibition highlighted her recent emergence in the art world, with her practice rooted in earlier abstract explorations.