Lance Letscher
Dutch Folly, 2008
Collage on Masonite
32 x 24 inches
d berman gallery happily
presents Industry and Design, a selection of new collages
by Austin’s Lance Letscher.
“Trained as a printmaker
at the University of Texas, Letscher starts with an intuitive
sense of palette and scale. He prospects thrift stores,
junk shops, and used bookshelves for old ledgers, notebooks,
diaries, handwritten lists, letters, and recipe cards.
Boxes of antique papers line his worktable. Sliced into
strips, squares, or wedges and embedded in crystalline
patterns, they become both shards of memory and the puzzle
pieces of new fictional narratives, the clues barely legible.
An analogy to quilt making is apt. Hours poring over his
wife's collection of quilt blocks and patterns, as well
as an eclectic stash of art books, inform both process
and image, leading Letscher from one collage to the next.
The challenge of breaking up predictable structure erupts
in riffs on color, texture, and sheen… . In the collages,
the artist often contrasts nuances in thickness and commercial
printing, selecting worn record jackets and pulp paperback
covers with bent corners or the bright candy colors of
children's storybooks.” —Pamela Scheinman, FiberArts Magazine
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Summer
Group Show: Line/Form
3 July – 9 August, 2008
Alice Leora Briggs, Jeffrey Dell, Mary
McCleary, Joseph Phillips & Shawn Smith
14
August – 20 September:
Cynthia Camlin & Marianne Green
25
September – 1 November: Jeffrey Dell
6
November – 13 December: Sydney Yeager
18
December – 24 January:
Ann Matlock & Marjorie Moore
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