Larry Ferguson

As a boy, photographer Larry Ferguson watched his mother plant over 600 olive trees, each barely a foot high, to create a windbreak for the family’s farm in rural Nebraska. Forty years later, those saplings now soar to the sky, and even more indelibly, continue their looming influence over the photographer and his work. Modern Arts Midwest hosted Larry Ferguson: Moved By The Spirits, a solo exhibition of black-and-white photographs in October 2008. Moved by the Spirits featured close to 100 images of trees, which serve as stirring visual images in and of themselves, as well as extended metaphors for some of life’s most profound existential issues.

 

Based In Omaha, NE, Larry Ferguson is an internationally known photographer whose work has been exhibited in more than 400 galleries and museums throughout the world as well as published in 50 periodicals and books. His artwork is included in thousands of private collections worldwide, as well as in the public collections of thirty museums, including the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; and the Library of Congress, Washington DC.