Conduit Gallery is honored to announce the seventh solo of works by Santa Fe-based artist Ted Larsen. Larger in scale and more ambitious than previous sculptures, wall-based constructions deftly balance the formal rigor of High Modernist abstraction with the material language of the everyday. Built from salvaged and repurposed materials, Larsen's works transform the remnants of an industrial world into precisely calibrated compositions of color, line, texture, and space.

For Larsen, his studio practice is the open source generation of non-objective sculptures that both respond to the architecture that surround them and allow the viewer to experience and reflect on the emotions they bring to the work. To create art, he notes, is to create meaning. But creation must come first, or what is made is relegated to being a mere illustration of meaning, the two are separate from one another. Wassily Kandinsky said that every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. It could follow that a work of art causes an emotional response, but Larsen questions whether it really does. Perhaps an emotional state already exists, and what is seen is seen through the lens of that emotion, so that people come to see not only what is in front of them, but also the potential to see who they really are.

"Art comes from a moment in time. So do people. But art doesn't care about the moment. It is ambivalent at best about us, and makes no accommodation for our attention. We must be the ones to make space for it, to give it time, to slow down and be with it. Art doesn't move, change, or position itself. It is simply what it is." Larsen offers the work in this exhibition as a reflection, one that shows itself for what it is, while holding the potential to show viewers who they are.