KENDALL ROTH LARSEN’S BIO

Kendall Roth Larsen is an image maker and photographer whose work navigates the delicate intersections of family, memory, and the natural world, exploring themes of respect, fear, and control. Growing up surrounded by majestic landscapes, She is drawn to the powerful presence of environments like forests, oceans, and mountains—spaces that inspire awe and command reverence. Simultaneously, she is captivated by the subtle beauty of microscopic details, such as the intricate veins in a leaf, reflecting the grandeur of a canyon.

Her practice delves into how memory and place intertwine; where what remains is not the full experience but the outline—the echoed trace of something once present. Photographs, she contends, possess the ability to distort, preserve, and manipulate memory—guiding how stories unfold in the mind. This exploration is fueled by a deeply emotional connection to family archives—old photographs and home videos—that feel intimate yet universal.

Roth bridges personal and collective memory through re-contextualizing these archivalmaterials. By detaching them from her individual narrative, the images become nostalgictouchstones accessible to all, inviting empathy through shared experience.Her creative process often begins with selecting images that resonate emotionally—pieces thatcollectively articulate feelings or experiences. Project titles frequently employ words or phraseswithout a direct English equivalent, reflecting a nuanced emotional language. Throughphotography, mixed media, and installation, Roth constructs tactile, experiential works—crafted from materials like player piano rolls, alternative photographic processes, and texturedpapers—that invite viewers to not just look, but to feel and connect.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Sympathetic Resonance is an acknowledgement of absence and stillness. It is echoes and ripples. The sound within space and silence. Each piece from this curated works come together to tell and story of a loud and chaotic, deafeningly quiet loneliness that exists symbiotically within nature and humanity. The crops are impressions and prints left from external non-organic forces. The waves are deafening and ring throughout my body in harmonic stillness. There is a grace and silence to the chaos. It is calculated and unchanging. The mechanics of the ocean mimic the mechanics of a piano roll. The piano roll evokes a feeling of melancholy through its negative space. The absence of sound and the absence of a player leave a ghostly impression on the mind. The black and white images of the ocean are still and calm. There are traces of sound that wash over the images like phantom tones.

Sympathetic Resonance is an experimentation of different and new processes and is a work in progress. It is also blended with a few of my other projects, Marmoris and Before it Slips Away. As I created more images I found myself going back to images of the ocean and drowning within them. I started looking through Google Maps at my home and found solace in the strange circular shapes of central pivot crops. The more I researched these, the more I found all over North America. What struck me about the crops was the impressions left by humanity on the earth and made me wonder how long these imprints would be left on the land. The ocean erodes its cliffs and beaches, but what about where it cannot touch? There is an invisible hand leaving marks all over the planet. The piano rolls hold a sentimental significance for me. I had a player piano growing up and my grandmother had hundreds of piano rolls. Music has a strange way of taking you back in time, but within the silence of the rolls, where I cannot hear the music, is what takes me back. It makes me think of the impressions left by those in our lives and the empty spaces that are left after they are gone and how these spaces can because music. It is my response to external echoes, or vibrations, like sympathetic resonance, and how each element effects me.

EXHIBITION RUN

• September 26 - October 31, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION

• Friday October 3, 2025 4 - 7 PM

GALLERY HOURS

• Monday through Friday, 11 am - 4 pm.

The Rotunda Gallery is located on RMCAD’s campus at 1600 Pierce Street, Denver, CO 80214.

SEPTEMBER 26 - October 31, 2025

ABOUT THE ROTUNDA GALLERY

The Rotunda Gallery focuses on exhibitions featuring work by the RMCAD faculty, alumni, and local artists and designers in one of the college’s most unique buildings.