Office Magazine
Vortex Blossom
January 30th, 2019
By John Martin Tilley
If Lisa Frank’s color-soaked phantasmagoria had a love child with a florist from outer space, their offspring would look something like the paintings of Caroline Larsen at The Hole.
The colors move and swarm, and upon closer inspection are applied so thickly to the canvas that it takes on the texture of cake frosting, making the flat, graphic image prod into the outer world with sugary, fourth-wall breaking intensity.
It’s a feat of artistic ability to make florals seem fresh, bold and inlaid with comment on pop culture and contemporary image-making. Like the sidewalk chalk drawings in Mary Poppins, miniature worlds are waiting for exploration on the vases that hold the eye-popping arrangements, a picture-within-a-picture that feels as if it’s a part of the infinite multiverse that Larsen is exploring.
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