So Real

The first time I witnessed Lars Bergquist at work was 10 years ago. He was making large paintings on paper that would go up around the city with wheatpaste. At the time, he was housesitting a friend’s apartment on Capitol Hill in one of those titanic, old buildings with vast carpeted stairwells. Art had taken over the unit. Long sheets of large-format paper with faint black-and-white printed images—the kind you can get for cheap at FedEx on their large-format printers—were pin