Screening Tonight: The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
Thu, May 25
|Violet Crown Cinema
Screening of The Secret Life of Lance Letscher, tonight, Thursday, May 25 from 6 - 7:30 pm followed by a Q&A with artist Lance Letscher and director Sandra Adair. IMAGE: Lance Letscher • Dog Star, 2023 • collage • 11 x 8.5"
Time & Location
May 25, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Tonight's screening of The Secret Life of Lance Letscher will be followed by a Q&A with artist Lance Letscher and director Sandra Adair. Arrive early, seating is limited.
Artist's Reception
TAI Modern presents Figure 8: New Works by Lance Letscher, a solo exhibition by renowned collage artist, Lance Letscher.
Letscher’s world is one filled with color and detail, allowing the viewer to enter a piece and stay a while. As Erin Keever, writer from Austin, Texas, notes, “These collages demand intense and prolonged looking.”
Inspired by Elliot Smith’s album of the same name, Figure 8 showcases the dense overlapping compositions and the witty and poetic juxtaposition of images that has become a signature in Letscher’s work. The pieces in Figure 8 explore the artist’s ongoing interest in texture, color, and composition through ornithological and environmental imagery, inspired by a trip to the Texas coast. In discussing his recent work, Letscher…