Join us for a special screening of the feature documentary The Secret Life of Lance Letscher, a deeply personal and psychological portrait of the internationally recognized collagist, Lance Letscher. The film follows the artist as he prepares to transition from intricately cut paper collage to metal, creating a large-scale mural on the iconic stretch of South Congress Avenue in his hometown of Austin, Texas.
In her directorial debut, Sandra Adair shares a meticulously crafted exploration of Letscher’s life and work – giving audiences an unprecedented look into the mind of one of the contemporary art world’s most captivating figures.
The screening will be followed by an Artist Talk with the artist himself, in conversation with Franny Koelsch Jeffries and Anise Medina from Houston’s koelsch gallery. As the three delve into Letscher’s creative process, personal journey, and use of materials, attendees are encouraged to ask questions and participate at their choosing. Following the event, there will be a reception at koelsch gallery beginning at 6:00 pm.
About The Director:
Sandra Adair is the Oscar-nominated editor of Boyhood and many other feature films and documentaries; she has edited all of Richard Linklater’s films since 1993. In addition to Boyhood (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, and received the American Cinema Editors Eddie award), her credits include The School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, The Before Trilogy of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight; Last Flag Flying, Tumbledown, A Single Frame, Waking Life, Bernie, Everything Must Go, Fast Food Nation, Me and Orson Welles, A Scanner Darkly, The Newton Boys, SubUrbia, Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Next Generation, Bad News Bears, Apollo 10 ½, and more. In addition to her editing credits, she was a co-producer on Boyhood and an associate producer on the documentaries Shepard & Dark and Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach. She directed, edited, and produced the 2017 feature-length documentary The Secret Life of Lance Letscher, which was nominated for the Chicken & Egg Award and the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the SXSW Film Festival.
About Lance Letscher:
Lance Letscher is a contemporary collagist based in Austin, Texas. He is known for transforming found and discarded materials into meticulously constructed compositions, fueled by a juxtaposition of color and value. His use of layered imagery generates an illusion of light and space, converting the once two-dimensional compositions into three-dimensional illusions. He has exhibited extensively across the United States and abroad, including Texas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London, Brussels, Munich, Barcelona, and Paris. Along with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, his work is held in more than 30 selected collections nationwide. Letscher’s work has been the subject of several books and catalogs, including The New York Observer, Art of America, and Harper’s Magazine, and the full-length monograph Lance Letscher: Collage, published by the University of Texas Press in 2009. He published a children's book in 2010 titled The Perfect Machine and starred in Sandra Adair’s deeply personal and psychological portrait, The Secret Life of Lance Letscher, which debuted in 2017.
About koelsch gallery:
For over 30 years, koelsch gallery has remained one of Houston’s only institutions exclusively dedicated to showcasing outsider, folk, self-taught, and visionary art. Our work extends through a multitude of mediums, including collage, assemblage, sculpture, installation, found objects, printmaking, painting, wearable art, jewelry, and illustration. Whether aspiring or established, trained or self-taught, deliberate or intuitive; all artists produce works rooted in a shared sensibility and authenticity. Our mission is to blur the lines between the unconventional and mainstream by expanding the definition of art and what it means to be a creator.
For more information, visit koelschgallery.com or contact anise@koelschgallery.com.
