Molly Larkey (born December 31, 1971) is an American artist. Larkey, the daughter of American singer-songwriter Carole King and bass player Charles Larkey, was educated at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

and

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. She is a

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

working with a variety of materials whose work references formalism and abstraction combined with symbolic imagery and bright colours. She is concerned with the way in which art functions as a means of communication. She has made pencil copies of drawings and manuscript pages of famous writers who have committed suicide. She has had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 in 2007. She is based in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

Selected exhibitions

;2000 * Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey ;2001 * ''An Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Women Artists'', Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica ;2004 * ''Black Milk'', Marvelli Gallery, New York ;2005 * ''LineAge'', The Drawing Center, New York * ''Off My Biscuit, Destroy Your District!'', Samson Projects, Boston ;2007 * Project Room, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City * ''M*A*S*H'', Smith-Stewart, New York * ''I Died For Beauty'', Newman Popiashvilli Gallery, New York * ''Da Damage'', Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn

References

External links

Official website

information from the

Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London art gallery, gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, mov ...

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