Born in LA; lives and works in LA Larkey, the daughter of American singer-songwriter Carole King and bass player Charles Larkey, was educated at Columbia University and Rutgers University. She is a sculptor working with a variety of materials. In her new work, Molly Larkey continues her interest in the idea of an alternative "imaginary" language by exploring the very form of language--letters, symbols, words, drawing, writing--as the basis for her sculptural and painted works. For Larkey, this imaginary language is related to being a queer person and imagining a queer utopia, and it can be hinted at or brought closer to ones field of vision and experience through art. The idea of an imaginary language and an imagined queer utopia can be seen in relation to modernism and the utopian ideals around the various modernist movements which related art and aesthetics to a vision of an alternative form of society. It imagines art as an alternative kind of language with the power to alter our ability to communicate, opening up different ways of apprehending and describing the world, and changing how we behave with one another and function in the world. Larkey's "queer" language of forms, however, proposes a system of signs that does not conform to the mandates of cultural logics, and, particularly, not the didactic, categorical, exclusionary, rigid, male-centric model of modernism and its entailing hierarchies. Her new wall sculptures do that on an individual level--they literally change shape depending on where one is standing in relation to them. undefined

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