The end of You is the Beginning of the End of Me, 2003 Installation view at PS122 Gallery, New York	Gun (detail) , 2002 Rasin and pedestal, 33" x 12" x 12", From the series The end of You is the Beginning of the End of Me.	Water (detail) , 2002 Rasin and pedestal, 21" x 32" x 29", From the series The end of You is the Beginning of the End of Me.	Kurt Cobain, 2002 Pencil on paper. 36" x 24". From the series The end of You is the Beginning of the End of Me.

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Artist Statement

Each of my projects explores the breakdown of boundaries between our selves and the world that we simultaneously produce and are constructed by. I am particularly interested in the way that art can function as a locus of this breakdown, and the way that the aesthetic becomes the sublime as our experience of the world, and our formulation of selfhood, shifts in relation to our experience of art.

These images are of a project entitled “The End of You is the Beginning of the End of Me,” which consists of clear cast resin sculptures, and pencil-drawn re-creations of drafts or sketches of works by artists, writers, and musicians who have committed suicide. With this work, I am exploring the Romantic idea that an artwork is a vehicle for a process of identification between the viewer and the artist. I am also looking at the way that danger - physical or psychological - can become sublime by placing it at a slight remove, making extinction itself an object for contemplation.

Molly Larkey

 Education

2000	MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1994	BA, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2003	The End of You Is The Beginning of The End of Me, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003	Terrible Beauty, Satellite‚ (a division of Roebling Hall), curated by Joel Beck and Christian Viveros, New York, NY
2001	An Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Women Artists: Kiki Smith, Cecily Brown, Jane Hammond, Elizabeth Murray, Susan Rothenberg, Molly Larkey, Lisa Yuskavage, Marisol, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000	New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1999	Size Matters, Gales Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY Mirror, Mirror On the Screen, Momenta Art Gallery, Williamsburg, NY The Y2K Solution, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996	Incestuous, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY

Other

Contact Information
775 Lincoln Place, #3
Brooklyn, NY 11216
(917) 202-4679
mollylarkey@verizon.net