About
Kyle Larabee’s work explores two fundamental fixations: a deep curiosity about the natural world, and an innate discomfort with the relentless passage of time. He pursues these interests using a rigorous, almost scientific method of experimentation and abstraction to test and transform common aspects of our environment. Often his work involves the measurement of time and the marking of highly personal milestones in unique and surprising ways. Each endeavor sharpens his understanding of his place in the world and aids in the formation of some new question to ask about it.
Larabee has exhibited widely throughout New England. He is represented by 13FOREST Gallery, located in Arlington, MA, and his work is in numerous collections, including those of Boston Children’s Hospital, Bank of America, and InterContinental Hotels. He received Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and he is a practicing architect at a Boston-area design firm. He lives with his wife and children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Selected Exhibits and Installations:
Postcards to Maud...Please Forward, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2017P is for Past / Passed, installation, Boston Children’s Museum, 2013 - 2016Word + Image, Small Works Salon, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2015Branching Out: Trees as Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2014 - 2015Plenty, 13FOREST Gallery, Arlington, MA, 2009 - 2015The Summer Party, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2012Ordo Naturalis, two-person show, 13FOREST Gallery, Arlington, MA, 2012Dreams and Nightmares of a Stuffed Bird, installation, Boston Children’s Museum, 2007 – 2012Artists of the Grid, Morgan Arts Council, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2011Art and the Environment, Jameson & Thompson Fine Art, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2010MAD ART, New Art Center, Newton, MA, 2010Home is where the Art Is, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, 2009She Loves Me / She Loves Me Not, installation, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, 2008Lilac – Visions of Spring, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2008Beyond the Book, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 2007 Capturing Special Places, The Trustees of the Reservations, Ipswich, MA, 200712 x 12, Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006Solo Exhibition, Jameson & Thompson Fine Art, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2006Works on Paper, Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY, 2006Chelsea Biennial, Chelsea Theater Works, Chelsea, MA, 20063rd Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, 2006Peak Color, solo exhibition, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2005