Liz Larner’s work both explores and expands the possibilities of sculpture by combining geometric formalism with notions of movement and change. Her use of lines, color and shape work to modify and reinvent the formal language of Minimalism, producing new relationships between viewer, sculpture and the surrounding environment. Drawing from a wide range of materials and narratives, Larner’s work encourages new experiences of space along with a deeper meditation on the ways in which viewers understand and interact with it. 

-text courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar

Larner has had important solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland), MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and a variety of international galleries. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas; and Uncontained, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Larner has been honored with multiple awards including a Pacific Design Center Stars of Design Award in 2005 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999.