Larkin Higgins is an American cross-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work includes paintings, drawings, visual poetry, artists' books, book sculptures, installation art, collage, mail art, photo-related works, and performance art. Her published books of poetry combine text with logographic drawings.1 She is a tenured professor of art at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.2
Her work was celebrated at the Festival of Women in 1993, where she gave a talk on visual objects and the stories they tell.3
She was included in a group exhibition focused on assemblage at the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture in 2009.4
Work in permanent collections
Her work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:
- Grunwald Collection at the Hammer Museum (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Erie Art Museum
- Laguna Beach Museum of Art
- California Museum of Photography
- Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections
- Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries
- Judith A. Hoffberg Archive (University of California, Santa Barbara Library)
- University at Buffalo Libraries, Special Collections
- International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction5
Bibliography
Bibliography
Her published books of poetry include:
- Of Materials, Implements (Dusie Kollektiv)
- Matchbook: Poems (Red Wind Books), 1999 6
- Of Traverse and Template (Mindmade Books), 2013 7
- Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted (Dusie), 2013 8
- comb- ing mine- ings (Dusie), 2015 9
References
References
- "3 things to do for free in Denver this week, April 7–10". Westword. April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2009.
- "Larkin Higgins, M.F.A. | California Lutheran University". www.callutheran.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- Simon, Stephanie (April 26, 1993). "Thousand Oaks University to Salute Women in the Arts". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. ProQuest 282025288.
- "Assemblage Exhibit Slated at CLUArtists Create 3-D works from Found Objects". Targeted News Source. January 26, 2009. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
- "Larkin Higgins, M.F.A. | California Lutheran University". www.callutheran.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- Higgins, Larkin; Lummis, Suzanne; Red Wind Books (Firm) (1999). Matchbook: poems. Los Angeles: Red Wind Books. ISBN 9781889504018. OCLC 224623741.
- Higgins, Larkin (2013). Of traverse and template. Los Angeles: Mindmade Books. OCLC 865014021.
- Higgins, Larkin (2015). Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted. OCLC 1009756291.
- Higgins, Larkin (2015). comb- ing mine- ings. OCLC 939415219.