January 11 - March 1, 2025
From Conduit Gallery:
“Conduit Gallery is honored to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Austin-based artist Lance Letscher. The exhibition paper collages will be the thirteenth solo exhibition at Conduit Gallery for the artist since 1997. In his new show Golden Years, Lance Letscher holds the tension of the opposites between the literal and the ethereal. Letscher creates visions of the end of a cycle, dreams of an afterlife, and the mystery coursing artistic creation. There is an “agreed upon reality” and there is world we slip into when we fall asleep. The dream world is both deeply personal and common to all. It is also the entrance to the creative space, creativity that is life itself. [“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2 KJV)] In Golden Years, Letscher explores heavenly architecture and symbolic studios. Works such as Ghostwriter refer to the compelling force that comes through the artist during the creative process. Sometimes bringing the artist to an ecstatic state, the inspired and meticulous cutting is the expression of the work that pulls the viewer in. Built upon old book covers, the viewer may recognize mythological and religious images such angels, owls, lapis lazuli blue, flowers, rocks, water. Working with these archetypal images, Letscher creates these anew and imbues them with a new spiritual life. [“That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above.” (Emerald Tablet)] Lance Letscher lives and works in Austin, TX where he earned a BFA and an MFA from the University of Texas. His work is shown internationally, including recent exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and Germany. He is represented by galleries in Paris, France; Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY; Jackson, WY; Austin, TX and Dallas, TX. His work is in museum collections including The McNay, San Antonio, TX; The Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Blanton Museum, Austin and the Tyler Museum, Tyler, TX. In 2009, the University of Texas Press published a monograph of Letscher’s work, which covered a period of work from 2001-2008. In 2016, the film, “The Secret Life of Lance Letscher” debuted at the South by Southwest Film Festival and has continued to screen in various film festivals, museums and film houses nationally, including Ovation TV. Directed by Austin based editor and long-time Richard Linklater collaborator, Sandra Adair, the film is a deeply personal and psychological portrait, edited by Adair with a soundtrack composed by Graham Reynolds.”
Reception: January 11, 2025 | 5:30–7:30 pm
1626 C Hi Line
Dallas, 75207 TX
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