Artist's Statement
My work is phrenically figurative. My paintings are more than just bodies, they are commentary on select concepts and ideas. I find most fascinating the edge of understanding, past or present. Exploring the emotion, science, and philosophy at the reaches of this understanding is particularly enthralling for me. Life and death, for example, permeate our personal environment every day, but we rarely grasp its scope and interconnectedness. We call this relationship of self to the world a condition, the human one, because it is a state of being, not an end point and not a starting point. It changes and is dependent on things. It is different under alternate circumstances. Take Sept. 11th for those trapped in the towers as an example. Taking inventory of their lives, what (we can only imagine) did they learn? What did you learn? How did our personal conditions as humans change around the globe, if at all? It's the macro idea my painting In the Towers conjures while my painting In the Mines asks a similar question, but focuses on a huddled group underground. Both are huddled groups, but I believe In the Mines asks a more intimate singular question about our personal inventory while In the Towers holds a more global dialog.
I feel discovering and expressing such ideas in paint is a true artistic endeavor. As my tool I use heroic or tragic 'everyman' figures to provide the right narration and atmosphere of imagery for any viewer. This provides a dialog accessible to all. Like my forms, the concepts and ideas I incorporate bow and flex with observation, examination, and imagination.
I must explore and describe this journey and painting satisfies both. I must paint ad inexplorata, into our labyrinth.
About Lance
Lance was born to the Fall of 1972.
He currently lives and works in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Most nights he can be found in his studio, exploring.