The Original Influencers: Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, & Bruce Marsh

Next date: Friday, January 24, 2025 | 10:30 AM to Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 04:30 PM

Showcasing the work of Floridaʼs original artistic influencers, this exhibit brings together three of the stateʼs seminal painters – Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, and Bruce Marsh– artists who have had a profound impact on the Central Florida art scene and inspired generations in their roles as professors. Larsen depicts monumentalized memories of geometric figures, landscapes, and objects compacted into proportional, non-organic configurations. Lotz is a self-described Organic Imaginative artist whose paintings represent the visual symbology of his unconscious self. Marsh is a naturalistic painter interested in the drama of seeing through light and shadow in both natural and human-made landscapes. Together, the artists are part of an era of pioneering mentorship and an artistic practices that endure.

 

Images: 

Mernet Larsen, Coming Home, 2010 Acrylic and tracing paper on canvas 49 x 47 in 124.5 x 119.4 cm (ZNI0165) © Mernet Larsen 2024. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York.
Bruce Marsh, Bay Waves, n.d. Oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist. © 2024 Bruce Marsh
Steve Lotz, Dream Source, 2015. Acrylic on canvas. Photographer: Michael Havecot. Courtesy of the Artist. © Steve Lotz

 

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Location

Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton Street, Orlando, FL, 32803, View Map