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Lance Letscher
[edit]Lance Letscher is an American visual artist and author who creates complex collages and assemblages from found materials. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Early life
[edit]Lance Letscher was born in Austin, Texas, in 1962. He studied under Peter Saul at the University of Texas, Austin, receiving his B.A. in 1984 and M.F.A. in 1988. After graduation, Letscher worked as a printmaker for Southwestern artist Amado M. Peña for about 11 years. [1]
Artistic style
[edit]Letscher cuts and combines images and texts from a variety of sources, including books, album covers, manuscripts, and magazines, into motifs that suggest forms abstract and representational. His work has been compared to Paul Klee’s paintings and is reminiscent of landscapes, aerial photographs, or stratigraphic maps. [2][3]
Letscher cites Egon Schiele and Friedensreich Hundertwasser as influences. In 2004, Letscher based the collage Edith’s Dress on Schiele’s Portrait of the Artist’s wife. [4] Letscher has stated that his collage images are "not representational" but “associative cues” meant to be read alongside “marks and scribbles and little words” to create “an abstract or emotional space”.[5] Artist and critic Mario Naves wrote that Letscher is “an artist of substance, grit and purpose.“ [6]
Letscher’s art has been described by Artforum as preserving "a past that is almost unbearably painful”, by Art in America as using a "labor-intensive process" producing “exquisite color and striking compositions”, and by The Austin Chronicle as “poetic collages concocted from ‘found’ papers”. [7][8][9]
Work
[edit]In the mid 1980s, Letscher taught sculpture at the University of Texas at Austin while completing his M.F.A., which gave him access to woodworking tools. During this time, he created works for an exhibit entitled Home at the N. No. O gallery in Dallas in 1989, which included sculpture, drawings, and woodworking art pieces. The exhibit was reviewed in Art Forum.[10]
In the 1990s, Letscher’s work depicted soft, colored images such as birds and flowers, but over time it transformed into large-scale abstract installations with vibrant colors. A monograph of Letscher’s work was published in 2009 by the University of Texas Press, entitled Lance Letscher: Collage. It presents 118 of his works dating from 2001-2008. The book explores Letscher’s artistic development and contains essays on Letscher by Charles Dee Mitchell and Brooke Davis Anderson. Anderson discusses Letscher’s deep ties to outsider art and makes connections with James Castle, Martin Ramírez, Adolf Wölfli, and the quilters of Gee’s Bend. [11] In 2010, The University of Texas Press published Letscher’s children’s book The Perfect Machine. Letscher wrote and illustrated the book. He created 50 collages and mixed-media illustrations.[12]
Documentary film
[edit]Letscher was the subject of the 2017 documentary The Secret Life of Lance Letscher. directed by Sandra Adair. It was the opening film of the 2017 South By Southwest.[13] [18] [14]
Letscher’s work is in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The Library of Congress. [15][16][17]
- ↑ Irvine, M. (2004). The Book on Lance Letscher, Austin Chronicle, June.
- ↑ Lance Letscher: Collage. (2009). The University of Texas Press.
- ↑ Lance Letscher: Quiltlike Collages. (2004). Fiber Arts, 31(1).
- ↑ Lance Letscher: Collage. (2009). The University of Texas Press.
- ↑ Lance Letscher: Newly Industrious. (2008). Austin Chronicle, May.
- ↑ Naves, M. (2002). Letscher's Stunning Chelsea Debut. New York Observer, April.
- ↑ Mitchell, C. D. (1989). Lance Letscher. Art Forum.
- ↑ Kuntz, M. (2002). Lance Letscher at Howard Scott. Art in America, 90(10).
- ↑ Irvine, M. (2004). The Book on Lance Letscher, Austin Chronicle, June.
- ↑ Mitchell, C. D. (1989). Lance Letscher. Art Forum.
- ↑ Lance Letscher: Collage. (2009). The University of Texas Press.
- ↑ Brenner, W. A. (2010). Lance Letscher: The Perfect Machine. Austin Chronicle, May.
- ↑ Staff. (2017). The Secret Life of Lance Letscher. Hollywood Reporter, April. The film covers Letscher’s creative process and includes commentary by Robert Jessup, Pavel Zoubek, and Charles Dee Mitchell.
Selected collections
Letscher’s work has been exhibited at major museums in the USA and Europe, including The McNay Art Museum, Art Museum of Austin, and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, as well as gallery exhibitions in New York, Paris, Munich, and Barcelona. <ref>Cornea, I. (2011). Lance Letscher: Clin d’oeil d’Amérique. Artension, 109. - ↑ Irvine, M. (2004). The Book on Lance Letscher, Austin Chronicle, June.
- ↑ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022631400/
- ↑ https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/12174/lance-letscher/objects
- ↑ https://www.nga.gov/artists/52168-lance-letscher
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