Raised in New York City, Mary Larsen attended an art magnet high school then studied printmaking and filmmaking at Hampshire College. Her education continued through her extensive travels throughout Europe, India, Nepal and China, filling sketchbooks and immersing herself in the art and culture of the places she stayed. She has lived, worked and exhibited in NYC, San Francisco, San Juan, PR and now Miami. Her work is in corporate and individual collections in New York, Miami, and San Juan.

Layers of paint, ink, paper, found images and silkscreen create worlds that, like a memory of a dream, are at once disorienting yet somehow familiar. By obscuring and revealing, each layer unfolds the narrative. Disparate elements (scenes from war, sea life, maps) and the arbitrary use of scale work together to create an atmosphere of violence and beauty. There is balance through imbalance. The sublime power of nature, history and chance coalesce to unsettle and draw the viewer into a place that could only exist in the mind.