Larissa Killough
Larissa Killough (1971, Houston, United States) makes installations, paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Killough's freeform expressions are constructed out of various materials but mainly, canvas, rope, wire, and sometimes acrylic paint. Her works first appear as visions and through exploration of their meaning, evolve into forms that are emotionally-driven and self-referential.
With a conceptual approach, she tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
Her installations directly respond to the surrounding environment and use everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Building each piece on location, awareness and meaning develop from their physically challenging but ultimately meditative construction – yards upon yards of canvas stitched by hand or thousands of feet of rope crocheted. She likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
Her works are based on the human experience in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. Larissa Killough currently lives and works in Pennsylvania.
Photograph courtesy of Alexia Adana