About the Author

Mernet Larsen was born in 1940 in Houghton, Michigan. She is a painter of figurative narratives in highly abstracted style. Larsen used to teach at the University of South Florida for large parts of her career and now divides her time between New York City and Tampa, Florida. Mernet Larsen has been the subject of over 25 solo exhibitions including the New York Studio School Gallery in 2005. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Ringling Museum of Art, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Tampa Museum of Art, and numerous other public and private collections.