Damien LaRue is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work explores Florida as a lived environment rather than a literal place. His practice draws from the state’s saturated light, dense vegetation, and layered atmospheres, translating palm forms, horizons, and heat into abstract compositions built through color, repetition, and rhythm.

Working at the intersection of printmaking, painting, and digital processes, LaRue constructs images through accumulation. He frequently combines watercolor, acrylic, ink, photography, and screen-based techniques, embracing the visual artifacts of printmaking such as registration shifts, halftones, banding, and texture as essential elements rather than imperfections. These marks function as evidence of process and time, echoing the way Florida landscapes are shaped by weather, growth, erosion, and human intervention.

Palm fronds and botanical forms appear throughout the work as structural gestures rather than representational motifs. Broken into radiating lines, vertical interruptions, and layered fields of color, they act as organizing systems that hold movement and instability in balance. The resulting images feel both luminous and unsettled, oscillating between clarity and distortion, memory and immediacy.

LaRue’s work is deeply informed by printmaking traditions, particularly screen print and hybrid digital print processes. Many pieces begin as hand-built originals and are translated through multiple stages of reproduction, allowing chance, misalignment, and transparency to reshape the image. This iterative approach reflects an interest in how images evolve when passed through systems, surfaces, and time.

In addition to studio practice, LaRue produces limited-edition prints and series designed for residential, hospitality, and architectural spaces. His work is intended to be lived with, carrying the energy of Florida’s color and light into contemporary interiors.

He signs his work as Damien LaRue.

damienprints@gmail.com