Larysa Myers

Lives and works in Sarasota, Florida

Artist statement

Larysa Myers examines the female figure through the visual language of art history, particularly the traditions of portraiture, the nude, and the idealized woman. Drawing from academic painting and the surrealist imagery of René Magritte, she creates scenes in which women appear present yet psychologically elsewhere suspended in states of transition, much like dusk and dawn. The women’s faces are frequently obscured, replaced by silhouettes, shadows, or interruptions within the picture plane. Without a recognizable face, the figure becomes both individual and archetype - someone who can be looked at, imagined, desired, or projected upon, but whose interior life remains inaccessible. The paintings play with the tension between being seen and being unknowable. Interiors suggest spaces of comfort, luxury, and domesticity, yet they often feel empty or precarious. Tropical vegetation, night skies, and other elements of the outside world intrude into these enclosed spaces, collapsing the distinction between interior and exterior and creating a psychological landscape. The works consider femininity as something constructed through images and expectations, while also exploring the loneliness, desire, and ambiguity that exist beneath those surfaces.

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