LARISSA BATES: CURANDERA HERA AND ZUESS WITH A PBJ (JIGSAW PUZZLE)

In Curandera Hera with Zuess and a PBJ, as with much of Larissa Bates’s work, the artist conjures a mythic familial past in which fantasy and lived experience coalesce. Drawing on influences as varied as Leonora Carrington, Persian miniature painting, and Mexican biombo screens, Bates mines her bicultural upbringing, bridging the cloud forests of Costa Rica with rural Vermont to create richly patterned, dreamlike paintings that defy categorization.

Larissa Bates was born in Burlington in 1981, and grew up between Vermont and San Rafael de Vara Blanca, Costa Rica. She has had solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Monya Rowe Gallery (New York), GNYP Gallery (Berlin), Richard Heller Gallery (Los Angeles). In 2026 she had her first museum solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.