KENDALL ROTH LARSEN’S BIO

Kendall Roth Larsen is a photographer and image-maker whose work explores the intersections of family, memory, and the natural world. Inspired by both sweeping landscapes and microscopic details, she investigates how environments—whether oceans, forests, or the veins of a leaf—evoke awe, reverence, and reflection.

Her practice centers on the relationship between memory and place, considering photographs as both distortions and preservations of lived experience. Drawing from family archives of photographs and home videos, Larsen re-contextualizes personal materials into shared narratives, transforming them into touchstones of collective memory.

Through photography, mixed media, and installation, she creates tactile works that blend archival imagery with materials such as player piano rolls, alternative processes, and textured papers. Her projects often borrow titles from untranslatable words or phrases, echoing the complex, emotional language of memory.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Sympathetic Resonance reflects on absence, echoes, and the quiet harmonies between nature and humanity. The works explore the tension of chaos and stillness—how sound reverberates within silence, and how impressions, both natural and human-made, leave lasting marks on the world around us. Black-and-white images of the ocean evoke calm yet powerful resonance, while circular crop formations reveal humanity’s own imprints on the land.

The exhibition draws parallels between the mechanics of the ocean and the mechanics of a piano roll. Just as the sea erodes shorelines with relentless rhythm, the punched patterns of a piano roll evoke music through absence—ghostly impressions left in silence. These objects carry personal meaning: Kendall grew up with a player piano and a collection of rolls, and became fascinated by how music and memory intertwine, how sound—or its absence—can transport us through time.

Blending elements from ongoing projects Marmoris and Before it Slips Away, this body of work is both experimental and deeply reflective. It considers how external forces—waves, crops, archives, memories—create echoes that shape both landscape and identity. Like sympathetic resonance itself, these works vibrate with the unseen connections between presence and absence, sound and silence, permanence and impermanence.

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.