Molly Larkey (born December 31, 1971) is an American artist. Larkey, the daughter of American singer-songwriter

Carole King Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music. She wrote or co-wrote 118 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billbo ...

and bass player Charles Larkey, was educated at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

. 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 Abstraction is a process where general rules and concepts are derived from the use and classifying of specific examples, literal (reality, real or Abstract and concrete, concrete) signifiers, first principles, or other methods. "An 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 died by suicide. She has had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 in 2007. She is based in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

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 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, moving to the ...

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