Depression Groove, Burnet Gallery

Are You Ready for the Country, 62 x 62 inches, LP Covers
Help Me Make it Through the Night, 49.5 x 49.5 inches, LP Covers
Great Balls of Fire - Dolly Parton (1979), 37.25 x 37.25 inches, LP Covers 
Tougher Than Leather - Willie Nelson, 37.25 x 37.25 inches, LP Covers
I Walk the Line, 37.25 x 37.25 inches, LP Covers
Pride of America, 37.25 x 37.25 inches, LP Covers
You’re Lookin At Country, 37.25 x 37 inches, LP Covers
Walking After Midnight - Patsy Cline, 12.25 x 12.25 inches, LP Cover
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash, 12.25 x 12.25 inches, LP Cover
I Wish I Felt This Way At Home - Dolly Parton (1975), 12.25 x 12.25 inches, LP Cover
I Saw the Light - Hank Williams (1968), 12.25 x 12.25 inches, LP Cover
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson, 12.5 x 12.5 inches, LP Cover
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning - J. R. Cash, 12.5 x 24.75 inches, LP Covers
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles & Beyond the Sunset - Hank Williams, 12.25 x 24.5 inches, LP Covers
Cry, Cry, Cry - Johnny Cash, 12.5 x 24.75 inches, LP covers
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning - Kitty Wells, 12.5 x 24.75 inches, LP Covers
Can The Circle Be Unbroken - The Carter Family, 12.5 x 36.75 inches, LP Covers
March 5, 1963, 12.5 x 37 inches, LP Covers
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/60s
Honky Tonk Blues - Hank Williams, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/1960s
The End of The World - Skeeter Davis, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/1960s
Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/1960s
Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/1960s
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/1960s
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on souvenir magazine
Mystery Train - Elvis Presley, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on souvenir magazine
'Til I Can Make It On My Own - Tammy Wynette, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca 1950s/1960s
Ring of Fire June - Carter Cash, 13.75 x 11.375 inches framed, graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on WSM Grand Ole Opry concert program ca. 1950s/1960s
I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine - Elvis, 10" x 8", graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on paper
If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise - Johnny Cash, 10" x 8", graphite, galkyd, and Gamsol on paper

Depression Groove (2019) is a continuation of Larson’s ongoing body of work titled Heavy Rotation (2011), reflects its own nominal description but also refers to the biographies of the musicians and performers, each of whom were born out of the Great Depression and looked to the music industry to emerge from poverty. In the music industry of the time from which these classic pieces of American country music arose, “heavy rotation” refers to the frequent radio airplay of a record album. Exuding both hope and longing, the repeated spinning of vinyl on a disc jockey’s turntable becomes a literal translation of exactly what these musicians were searching for: repeated airplay and the hope of a new future. Through Larson’s use of removal, repetition, and revolving mechanical gesture this new body of work continues his exploration of and research into mark-making by using his own personal archive of records collected since high school. 48 different artists spanning from 1958 to 1979 and 107 records comprise Depression Groove where subtraction and play contradict preservation and timelessness.