January 4, 2012

Two Photographers Launch Boxfotos Airstream

Photographers Matt Larson and Rebecca Sexton Larson, cofounders of Boxfotos, launched a new adventure at their 3rd annual Open Studio held several weeks ago, the “Boxfotos Airstream.” The Airstream will serve as their home away from home for location and travel shoots, their moving gallery and studio, office and classroom.

The Larsons began looking for a gallery space in Tampa; Charleston, SC; and then Berea and Louisville, KY, but instead ended up with a 23-foot, 2008 International Flying Cloud Airstream. Matt explained,“We just couldn’t find an affordable building for a living and gallery space and soon realized we could have all our favorite cities as our home towns if we had a moving space.”

More than a year ago, the husband and wife photographers built their website Boxfotos.com (originally as a blog) and announced they would soon be the Boxfotos Airstream gallery and shooting studio. The idea caught a lot buzz from friends, collectors and art organizations that they decided to buy the Airstream. “It was one of those cases where we acted as if we were up and running in the Airstream, but we hadn’t even bought it yet,” Matt Larson. “Once we started getting requests to bring it to various cities, we knew we were onto something special.”

The art couple plan to teach photography (historical processes) on location, offer portfolio reviews, travel and exhibit their works of art out of the Boxfotos Airstream.

Matt Larson has 27 years of corporate marketing and photography experience and is known for his work with toy cameras.

Rebecca Sexton Larson is an award-winning artist with three Florida Artist Fellowships, and was awarded the title of Tampa’s Photo Laureate in 2005. Rebecca has 12 years of museum experience as an educator.

Currently, they both create works of art using historical photographic processes such as tintype, glass plate, cyanotype, vandyke, silver, salt print- ing, etc. If you want to see the Larsons’ work, have them visit your organization or take a class, email them or go to boxfotos.com and/or friend them on Facebook at “Boxfotos Airstream.”

POST FROM ART-O-MAT -- Matt Larson [ toycameraplay.com ] gets "art-o-vended" in Key West. NOTE: check the 2:00 min mark. Sarah Wildman from the NY Times - 36 hours in Key West http://video.nytimes.com/video

Interview with Matt Larson on the Art-O-Matt Project http://artandseek.net/2010/09/

The Polaroid Project RELEASED -- Today I released my first self-published book, The Polaroid Project. Check it out on Blurb. http://www.blurb.com/books/150

Every other year the Museum of Florida Art features a juried exhibit open to all artists working in all mediums from across Florida. This is an opportunity for many artists to showcase new work and to experience innovative efforts by others.
2010 Juror: Mark Ormond with over 25 years of experience, has edited and authored publications and curated exhibitions by many significant contemporary artists including Joel Shapiro, Robert Rauschenberg, Francesco Clemente, Robert Thiele, David E. Davis, Jim Couper and Yayoi Kusama. http://www.museumoffloridaart.

In the process of producing a Blurb book and I hope to have it done by end of February.

December 2009--Sent my first shipment off to Art-O-Mat http://www.artomat.org/home.ht and therefore will soon be featured in their machines. More to come. http://www.flickr.com/photos/t Greengirl27 said: I am the recipient of the art-o-mat object in the top right hand corner--the statue of a woman! I got it out of the art machine in St. Louis, MO! How awesome! Thanks for the lovely work! NOTE: Heard the "Polk Museum of Art" in Lakeland, Florida has my work in their machines.

C. Emerson Fine Arts, Film Lingual II, St. Petersburg, FL http://www.c-emersonfinearts.c

The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL http://www.sptimes.com/2004/12 By LENNIE BENNETT; Published December 16, 2004 Need a respite from all that tinsel and a color palette limited to red and green? Visit the Arts Center, 719 Central Ave., St. Petersburg for "Fixed in Time: The Photography of Rebecca Sexton Larson and Matt Larson." The couple do not work as a team; their very different stylistic approaches to the medium are obvious. They have in common an experimental technical approach, using back-to-the-basics equipment - she a pinhole camera, he a simple toy one - that gives their work, individual as it is, a shared freshness and directness. Both are narrative artists though Matt Larson's photographs (Fragile is above, left) are more straightforward; Rebecca Sexton Larson (whose Bird That Flutters is above, right) paints and draws on hers. The overall effect from both is evocative. Have a seat and slow down.

Featured Artist, University of Tampa Literary Magazine, Tampa, FL http://utpress.ut.edu/index.cf