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Email PageThe Rise and Fall of the Suburban Empire
October 12, 2006- November 28, 2006
Reception: October 12, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stephen Lack
Christopher Henry Gallery
550 W 29th St Stephen Lack The Whitehouse (2000) |
"Stephen Lack still makes lush paintings of off-key subjects drawn from the headlines and his own wacky imagination...Lack’s subjects are often testosterone-soaked and haunted by Capital and its civilized excess -- hence (the title), "the Suburban Empire."
- Walter Robinson, Artnet October 30, 2006
Due to the overwhelming response, Stephen Lack's exhibition has been extended an additional 2 weeks. Acclaimed as one of the original participants in NY’s East Village movement, Lack came to prominence with raw expressionist works depicting disturbing, yet oddly picturesque slices of American life. Always political and confrontational, Lack’s work has changed but is more poignant than ever, and no less edgy. In the spirit of 18th century Sturm und Drang , he has always been obsessed with the instinctive, impulsive, and emotional as a reaction to the complacency of a regimented society that perceives itself as rational.
“The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.”
- A.N. Whitehead from “The Medium is the Massage” by Marshall McLuhan
Join us as we celebrate the first New York solo exhibition of Stephen Lack in almost a decade. Acclaimed as one of the original participants in NY’s East Village movement, Lack came to prominence with raw expressionist works depicting disturbing, yet oddly picturesque slices of American life. Always political and confrontational, Lack’s work has changed but is more poignant than ever, and no less edgy. In the spirit of 18th century Sturm und Drang (storm and stress), he has always been obsessed with the instinctive, impulsive, and emotional as a reaction to the complacency of a regimented society that perceives itself as rational.
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