Mernet Larsen ne adam wata
Mernet Larsen (an haife ta a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da ɗari ari tara da arba'in) 'yar  wasan Ba’amurke yar  ƙasar Amurka ne wanda aka san ta da tsattsauran ra'ayi, zane-zanen labari mai ban tsoro waɗanda ke nuna ƙaƙƙarfan ƙaƙƙarfan yanayi, daidaitaccen duniya na abubuwan ban mamaki da na duniya.    Tun daga shekara ta dubu biyu, aikinta yana da siffa mai lebur, origami-kamar lambobi waɗanda suka haɗa da sifofi masu kama da plank da kundila    da sararin da ba na ruɗi ba tare da rarrabuwar kawuna, ƙayyadaddun hangen nesa da ke haɗa tsarin hoto marasa jituwa - baya, isometric, a layi daya, da kuma na al'ada Renaissance ra'ayi-da daban-daban na gani murdiya.    Masu sukar sun bayyana tsarinta a matsayin "mai kaifin baki, wanda ba zai yuwu ba"  yana ɗaukar alamomin ƙirƙira daga maɓuɓɓuka masu yawa, gami da geometries na zamani na masu fasahar gine-gine kamar El Lissitzky, gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Bunraku na Jafananci da littattafan labari na emaki, shimfidar wurare na farko na kasar Sin, da kuma Ƙananan ƙananan Indiya da zane-zane na fada.   Roberta Smith ya rubuta cewa ayyukan Larsen "suna kewaya rarrabuwa tsakanin abstraction da wakilci tare da nau'i na siffofi na geometric wanda bashi da ƙasa ga Cubo - Futurism fiye da de Chirico, fassarar gine-gine da farkon Renaissance na zanen Sienese . Suna jin daɗin haɗin ɗan adam da banƙyama, shimfidawa, wani lokacin tasirin hangen nesa mai cin karo da juna, sau da yawa yakan ci gaba ta hanyar sauye-sauyen ma'auni." 

Larsen ta baje kolin a Cibiyar Nazarin Fasaha da Wasika ta Amurka,  Gidan Tarihi na Mata a cikin Arts,  White Cube (London),  Gidan Tarihi na Isra'ila (Urushalima),  Tampa Museum of Art and Art . Gallery na New South Wales (Ostiraliya), a tsakanin sauran wuraren.  Ayyukanta yana cikin tarin dindindin na Gidan Tarihi na Whitney,  Gidan Tarihi na Gundumar Los Angeles,  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  da Walker Art Center, da sauransu.  Tana zaune kuma tana aiki a Tampa, Florida da Jackson Heights, New York tare da mijinta, mai zane Roger Clay Palmer.

Farkon rayuwa da Aiki 
An haifi Larsen a cikin shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara arba'in Houghton, Michigan kuma ta yi kuruciyarta a Chicago sannan Gainesville, Florida .  A makarantar sakandare tana sha'awar fasahar zamani da zane-zane.  Ta sami BFA daga Jami'ar Florida a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da sittin da biyu, inda mai zane kuma farfesa Hiram D. Williams ya ƙarfafa ta don biyan bukatu a cikin aikin wakilci da ainihin abubuwa duk da rinjayen maganganun maganganu a lokacin.   Ta ci gaba da aikin digiri a Jami'ar Indiana (MFA, a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da sittin da biyer), tana karatu tare da mai zane James McGarrell .   Bayan kammala karatunsa, Larsen ta koyar da fasahar studio da tarihin fasaha a Jami'ar Oklahoma, kafin ta koma Tampa kuma ya ɗauki matsayi a Jami'ar Kudancin Florida a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da sittin da bakwai; ta koyar da zane-zane da zane a can har sai da ta yi ritaya, farfesa Emeritus, a shekara ta dubu biyu da uku.

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