Eugene Larkin: Recent Work

Eugene Larkin has been a fixture of local printmaking for more than 30 years, a denizen of both MCAD and the University’s art department. Larkin’s work has a reassuring quality to it—never indulging in gimmicks or trends, but hewing to old-fashioned media and traditional values in composition, tone, and texture. In terms of subject matter, he sticks to the artistic equivalent of comfort food, too: formal nudes, still lifes, and landscapes make up much of his oeuvre. But that doesn’t make it any less appealing. Quite the contrary. Here, the artist shows off his skill with a notoriously difficult medium—woodcut—in such difficult but time-tested territory as myth and scripture. And no, he did not get the game-winning hit in game 7 of the 1991 World Series. That’s a different—though equally beloved—Eugene Larkin.