Larassa Kabel is an interdisciplinary memento mori artist whose work explores death as a way of reminding people to be present and appreciative in their daily life experiences. Kabel’s work regularly traverses the emotional and intellectual space between life and death, love and loss, the powerful and the powerless. Through the drawing, painting, printmaking, photo documented performance and sculpture, she confronts our view of ourselves “outside of Nature” and our desire to distance ourselves from our mortality.

Larassa Kabel was born in 1970 and received her BFA with honors in 1992 from Iowa State University with an emphasis in fibers. She currently lives in Des Moines, IA where she works as a full time artist and independent curator. She has received numerous grants and awards including an Iowa Arts Council Fellowship, and her work has been shown nationally and is in several corporate and private collections including the Des Moines Art Center, the White House and the World Food Prize.

She is represented by Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, IA and is available for commissions.