Larry Carlson has been called “an artistic mastermind” and “the Salvador Dali of the Next Century“. Carlson‘s artistic endeavors span a multitude of mediums including video, animation, music, ASCII art, painting, photography, and both traditional and digital collage.

collage by Larry Carlson

Larry Carlson‘s art is more than just “eye candy for stoners“. In the tradition of surreal artists such as Rene Magritte & Salvador Dali, Carlson‘s work delivers a disjointed representation of the unconscious mind, driven to Dionysian extremes. The pieces fuse together aspects of the occult & mysticism with surrealism, a sense of psychedelia with pop culture & kitsch, naturalism with technology, ultimately resulting in sublime juxtapositions that totally bend one’s perceptions.

digital collage by Larry Carlson

Larry Carlson‘s traditional collages are created “With glue and scissors.I hunt for old books and magazines for material to use and I print out images from the computer. I cut and splice these samples into new formations that reconstruct culturally constructed meaning of the original samples, opening up these received images to a multiplicity of interpretations. Collage artists take a tiny little bit of something from a piece and put it together with a lot of other pieces and make a distinct whole. Sometimes I like to collaborate on collage books with other fellow collagists, like Brian Belott.”

collage by Larry Carlson

Larry began learning computers at an early age. “My early experiences with computers begin when I was a kid, messing with the old Commodore 64 home computer. Later on in college I did a big experimental video collage piece with the Amiga video editing system as well as experiments with Adobe Premiere. I spent a lot of time creating digital images with Photoshop. During this time i started making music with the computer and more then any thing I wanted people too see this cool stuff -so publishing on the net became a must. I quickly learned how to make web pages and my early web sites were online galleries of my digital images. So by the time Flash came out , I was ready to really rock the system! After having spent years of exploring so many different fields of computer art, now its all kind of melting together into one ‘multimedia’ experience.”

digital collage by Larry Carlson

Carlson is recognized internationally as one of the most original digital artists in the world today. His works have been exhibited in the United States, Sweden, France, Brazil, and Germany. Carlson‘s collage art has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art & some of his video creations were shown at Alex Grey‘s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery. Larry Carlson‘s music has been featured on KBOO 90.7fm (a local station here in Portland, Oregon) & he has provided video effects for major electronic music venues in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Amsterdam.

collage by Larry Carlson

If you’d like to keep up with what’s happening in the world of Larry Carlson, he offers this advice, “I am active on Facebook and post new work there often and make a lot of ‘text art’. Connect to the Larry Carlson Facebook profile, add your feedback, and stay updated on new work that is posted daily. There’s also my Twitter page that is updated often. I also have a blog called ‘MASTER OF THE FANTASTIC‘ – it’s not really a log of my real life , but a log of my surreal life. It’s a stream of video art, text-art, and digital, mixed media, and collage artwork. I give you a peek at what I’m working on at the moment, as well as open up my archives and show some old work.”

collage by Larry Carlson

For more amazing artwork visit
Larry Carlson
http://larrycarlson.com/

Don’t miss Larry Carlson‘s “Weird World Scrolls“, a series of elaborate, elongated surrealistic digital collages that are packed with visual metaphors. Here is a taste of what to expect:

“Occult Fire Inside The Sun”
by Larry Carlson

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