Larry Edmiston was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1958, and currently resides in Lynn, Massachusetts. He began attending Gateway Arts in 1998.
Edmiston enjoys making art because it is about personal expression as opposed to repression. He has particular aversion to repression because of the behavior modification schooling of his youth and his experiences with a fundamentalist religious group during high school. Edmiston attempts to transform bad memories of those experiences through his artwork, hence his interest in the use and misuse of various types of authority. Edmiston has a strong fascination with certain women from his youth which he draws as he imagines them to be today. They are often placed in fantastic and symbolic settings. Their poses reference, among other things, pin-up models and record covers. Larry also has a significant interest in the late actress Natalie Wood, who often populates his work in the form of a spirit roaming places which hold a certain biographical importance for the artist.
Edmiston’s work has been exhibited in The Gateway Gallery, and was represented by the Margaret Bodell Gallery at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City. He has also shown his work at the Berenberg Gallery in Boston, MA.
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