Ted Larsen, Never Again, 2013, Salvage steel, silicone, vulcanized rubber, plywood, 45" x 14.5" x 11" IS TED LARSEN THE LOVE CHILD OF CONSTRUCTIVISM AND MAX ERNST? God only knows—and maybe ARTnews, where you’d find a question like this as the lead-in for a not-so-nuanced look at Some Assembly Required, Ted Larsen’s recent exhibition of sculpture at David Richard Gallery. It’s a very strong show of spot-on assemblage sculpture whose visual whimsy and wry humor rely upon Larsen

The bearer of its passion. Locus is Latin for “place”—“where it’s happening,” in English—as in: “By the early 1950s,New York had emerged as the locus of Postwar abstraction.” In his introduction to 50 West Coast Artists, published three decades later (1981) by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, its director framed “the question of local designation” as an abiding problem for art history as well as for artists and the art world: “It seems to emerge from the unspoken and c