■ By Candice Russell
Combining precise draftsmanship and painterly refinement, Jeffrey T. Larson’s Electrolux presents a circa-1950-style vacuum cleaner with a gracefully twisted hose. The artist admired the machine’s style and craftsmanship. “It was so classic, it was almost contemporary,” he says, so, exploiting the tension between the elegant and the functional, he situated the vacuum on a mantel as if it were a sculpture or trophy.
A similar painting usually takes him about eight months to complete, but he finished this one in only five. “The piece seemed to paint itself,” says Larson
( www.jeffreytlarson.com). Still, he admits that the position of the hose proved a challenge: “I spent probably
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