Lance Letscher: Machines, Buildings, and Books

Times:
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 25
6pm-8pm

Regular Gallery Hours:
Tues-Fri 10:30am-5pm
Sat 11am-5pm

Description:
McMurtrey Gallery is happy to announce a show of new work by Austin-based collage artist Lance Letscher.

Although his materials, including bookbindings, old ledgers and journals, and miscellaneous paper ephemera, remain the same, Lance has taken many of these new works in a markedly new direction.

This time around, Letscher's collage can be divided into several distinct categories.

The first is the most reminiscent of his previous work, with patterns of overlapping lines, pinwheels, and shapes, only slightly more deconstructed, if you will.

Next, are pieces that completely lack the order and symmetry so prevalent in his earlier work, often incorporating found sketches and random doodling.

Third is a group of works that includes recognizable elements like buildings and stairways, and particularly train tracks.

And finally is a series of works that really aren't collage at all, but rather drawings, each done simply and intently.

Lance Letscher has exhibited extensively in Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as in Poznan, Poland; Munich, Germany; and Barcelona, Spain.

His work can be found in the collections of the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; California State University Print Collection, Long Beach, California; Vinson & Elkins Law Firm, Houston, Texas; Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas; and numerous other public and private collections across the globe.

A book of Mr. Letscher's work is being published by the University of Texas Press, and will be available in March 2009.

Pictured: Switch House, collage on masonite, 34" x 22 3/4," 2008.