Kevin Larmon

Kevin Larmon[1] (born December 18, 1955) is an American artist[2] and was assistant monitor of painting at Syracuse University.

Most famously, Larmon's work includes collages of gay male pornography that have been painted over with images that exist somewhere in between abstraction and form.

Larmon was heavily influenced by his contemporaries at Gallery Nature Morte such as Robin Weglinski, Joel Otterson, and Steven Parrino.

[9][10] Other influential artists include Oliver Wasow, Robert Gober, Nancy Shaver, Carter Hodgkin, and Steven Wolfe.

During his time as a professor at Syracuse University, Larmon made an impact on many emerging artists including Deborah Roberts and Paul Weiner.

[14] In 2013, Larmon was included in a group show at the Leslie Sacks Gallery in Los Angeles, California alongside artists Christo, Jim Dine, Pablo Picasso, Chuck Close, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Marino Marini, Henri Matisse, Karel Nel, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, and Sebastião Salgado.

[26] Holland Cotter said Larmon's painting installation in The Cathedral Project was "the most cohesive part of the show, largely because it is concentrated in a small side chapel.

"[27] Ken Johnson (art critic) claimed that Larmon's "stained, yellow-glazed canvases have a quality of Old Masterish romanticism.