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Lance Letscher
[edit]Lance Letscher (born 1962) is an American artist based in Austin, Texas. He is known for collages and assemblages made from cut paper, books, ledgers, letters, and other found printed materials. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. He is the subject of the 2017 documentary The Secret Life of Lance Letscher.
Early Life and Education
[edit]Letscher was born in Austin, Texas in 1962. He received BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, he worked as a printmaker for Southwester artist Armado M. Pena Jr., an experience that gave him practical training in color application and production methods.
Career
[edit]Letcher's early work included sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and installation. His 1989 exhibition Home at N.No.O. Gallery in Dallas was reviewed in Artforum. By the 1990s and early 2000s, Letscher has become associated with cut-paper collage. His 2002 New York exhibition, Someone's Life/Collages and Drawings at the Howard Scott Gallery, was reviewed in The New York Observer and in Art in America.
Letscher began exhibiting with Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle in Paris in 2007, with additional European exhibitions in Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Barcelona, and Paris.
In 2014, Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York presented Lance Letscher: Real Life Drama. The exhibition included mechanistic collages and Hot Rod, a transformed World War II era training glider.
Work and Style
[edit]Letscher is known for collage and assemblage. He cuts paper from books, magazines, ledgers, letters, and other printed materials, then arranges the pieces into layered images. His work has been compared to quilts, map, aerial views, and landscapes.
Publications and Film
[edit]In 2009, the University of Texas Press published Lance Letscher: Collage, a monograph on the artist's work. In 2010, Letscher wrote and illustrated The Perfect Machine, a children's book published by the University of Texas.
Letscher is the subject of the 2017 documentary film The Secret Life of Lance Letscher, directed by Sandra Adair. The film premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival and marked Adair's directorial debut. Reviews described the film as a portrait of an Austin artists known for collages made from pop-culture ephemera and found materials.
Personal Life
[edit]Letscher lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Mary Frasher, and has two sons from a pervious marriage. In a 2017 interview with Psychology Today, Letscher said that his father's death by suicide affected his work, making it "a daker and more expressionistic for a time."
Selected Exhibitions
[edit]The exhibition Books and Parts of Books at the Galveston Arts Center in 2004, traveled to the Austin Museum of Art, Arlington Art Center, and the Art Museum of Southwest Texas. He has also exhibited at the Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas, the Tai Modern in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Maya Frodeman Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Selected Collections
[edit]Letscher's work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, The Library of Congress, and The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
External Links
[edit]Official website: https://www.lanceletscher.com/
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