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Emily Rose Larsen

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Emily’s enduring interest lies in the space between the human experience and reality. The intangible fuzzy cloud that allows us to continue forward as we rotate between functional ignorance and the horror of realization.

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THE FEMALE GAZE: PART THREE

Emily Rose Larsen +June 01, 2020

In the first two installments of The Female Gaze I put forth the idea that the female gaze consists of work made by women with a female viewer in mind. Expresse...
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THE FEMALE GAZE: PART TWO

Emily Rose Larsen +May 07, 2020

In The Female Gaze: Part 1 I put forth the idea that the female gaze is work made by women with a female viewer in mind. Images that explore the desires, experi...
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The Female Gaze: Part One

Emily Rose Larsen +March 30, 2020

You may have heard the phrase female gaze being tossed around more and more, but what is it? The more I read about it, the less I seem to know. It has been stat...
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Portrait as Gender Expression

Emily Rose Larsen +November 04, 2019

Gender has been a hot news topic for a while now, whether it's a store mixing the pink and blue toys together to encourage kids to shop by general interest inst...
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Portraiture as an Expression of Cultural Identity

Emily Rose Larsen +September 28, 2019

Much of the portraiture we see on a daily basis is trying to sell us something. A new look, this seasons trends, a new lipstick color that will fix our face, un...
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A Certain Age

Emily Rose Larsen +August 15, 2019

When I was in art school a friend of mine shared a story from one of her classes that shocked me. The discussion had turned to the idea that at a certain point ...
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Laughing It Off

Emily Rose Larsen +July 26, 2019

Some days it feels like there is not a single good thing happening anywhere in the world. Between climate change looming like a black cloud on our collective fu...
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The Natural Woman: a Violation of Community Guidelines

Emily Rose Larsen +June 14, 2019

Social media’s censorship of women’s bodies is deeply problematic. The ever changing guidelines for what is and isn’t acceptable on platforms such as Inst...
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An Honest look at Motherhood and Postpartum Identity

Emily Rose Larsen +May 14, 2019

The creation of life is violent, destructive and so common place that we are supposed to partake in the process with ease. Women are expected to suddenly cast a...
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Women Turning the Lens and Dialogue on Sex Work

Emily Rose Larsen +May 04, 2019

The idea of documenting sex has been around as long as we have. In 2005, archeologists discovered a statue in Germany of a man and a woman engaged in coitus cir...