Lance Letscher

Lance Letscher

03 April — 24 May 2026

Lance Letscher

A Road in the Air

A Road in the Air

Known for his intricate compositions made from hand-cut fragments of paper, Letscher creates layered images that balance narrative suggestion with expansive, formal exploration.

The exhibition’s title comes from a large-scale work made from a salvaged, unstretched canvas that Letscher encountered and immediately envisioned as a vast expanse of sky. A myriad of planes of varying size are suspended in the center of the canvas, bordered by a vibrant array of flora and fruit. For Letscher, airplanes offer a familiar visual vocabulary rooted in childhood memories of watching planes cross the sky, serving as a means to explore light, perspective, and spatial tension.

Throughout the exhibition, images of flight appear alongside other recurring motifs, including candles, landscapes, and scenes touched by fire. Several works, such as House on Fire and Earthquake with Fire, reference natural disasters and moments of catastrophe, themes the artist began exploring during the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. While fire acts as an agent of destruction in these pieces, it is also a symbolic force in others: a power that suggests transformation, creative energy, or a supernatural, almost spiritual presence, as seen in Flaming Hand or Candle Book. Although lacking in an overtly religious message, works like Rock Garden and Gold Nugget carry a subtle sense of

awe and reverence that emerges through the materials themselves, such as gold leaf.

Beginning with the materials, Letscher’s process is one that is almost meditative. Vintage books, antique printmaking papers, and found printed matter are carefully cut with a blade beneath a magnifying lens. From these fragments, the artist constructs his compositions intuitively, guided by formal concerns such as light, line, balance, and perspective. Dense with detail yet visually expansive, the collages in A Road in the Air reward slow looking, inviting viewers to linger and discover the subtle relationships between image, material, and space.

Letscher attended the University of Texas where he received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and his Master of Fine Arts. He later apprenticed for Amado Peña, an artist known for his Southwestern-style prints. He currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. His work is held in public and private collections around the country and has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Observer, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. A fulllength monograph of his work, Lance Letscher: Collage, was published in 2009, and The Perfect Machine, a children’s book published by UT Press, was published in 2010. The feature documentary The Secret Life of Lance Letscher by Sandra Adair was released in 2017.

17 x 12 1/2 inches

1/2 x 18 inches

1/2 x 10 1/2

LANCE LETSCHER

American, born in 1962

Lives and works in Austin, Texas

EDUCATION

BFA University of Texas, Austin, Texas

MFA University of Texas, Austin, Texas

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 A Road in the Air, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY

2025 Golden Years, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

Heaven, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX

2024 As Seen in a Dream, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY

2023 Sail to the Moon, Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin, TX

Figure 8, Taimodern gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Koelsch Gallery, Houston TX

Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2022 The Art of the Painterly Collage, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX

Intaglio, Flatbed Press , Austin TX

Birds and Fishes, Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin TX

2021 Tenuous Logic, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole WY

Lance Letscher, Collage, the Wright gallery, Texas A&M university, College Station,TX

2020 A Bird Flew in Through My Window, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX Catalog

Tai Modern, Santa Fe, NM

Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX

2019 The Miraculous Staircase, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2017 Cut & Staple: New Work by Lance Letscher, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

Untroubled Mind, Tayloe

Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

Lance Letscher, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX

Parallel Universe, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2016 Secret File, TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM

Lance Letscher: New Collages, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX

2014 Real Life Drama, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris, France

2013

Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art

Acquisitions, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

Pregunta Numero Uno, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY

2012 Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM

D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2011 The Ghost in the Machine, Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris, France

Needle in the Hay, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Further Work From The Middle Ages, D. Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas

Lance Letscher, collage, Galerie Peter Vann, St. Moritz, Switzerland

Hard Eye, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2010 Galeria Miguel Alzueta, Madrid, Spain

The Perfect Machine, David Berman Gallery, Austin Texas

The Perfect Machine #2, Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Lance Letscher, collage, P

ascal Polar Galerie Brussels, Belgium

New Work From the Middle Ages, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

Thinking Machines, Galerie Vidal St. Phalle, Paris, France

Nervous System, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY

Faktura/Tektonika, Conduit

Gallery, Dallas, TX

Lance Letscher, Cottage Industry, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009 Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

Galeria Miguel Alzueta, Barcelona, Spain

2008 Industry and Design, David Bernam Gallery, Austin, TX Machines, Buildings, and Books, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

2007 Lance Letscher, Comedy/ Tragedy, Galerie Vidal St. Phalle, Paris, France

Furthermore, New Work by Lance Letscher, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

Lance Letscher – Collage, Armarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX

2006 Lance Letscher: Index, David Berman Gallery, Austin, TX Lists and Poems, Gallery 68, Austin, TX

Lance Letscher, Photographs, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX

Lance Letscher, Recent Collages, Galeria Miguel Alzueta, Barcelona, Spain

Here and There, New Work by Lance Letscher, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX Windows and Curtains, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005 Lance Letscher, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY

Lance Letscher: Current Work, The Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX

Lance Letscher, Drawing with Scissors, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Lance Letscher, Plan B, Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Lance Letscher, Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

Lance Letscher: New Work, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

2004 Lance Letscher, Art Gaspar,

Barcelona, Spain, catalog

Books or parts of books, The Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, Travels to: The Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX, The Arlington Art Center, Arlington, TX

The Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, catalog

Lance Letscher: Provisional Beauty, D. Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

Lance Letscher, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX

2003 Lance Letscher, Collage –Arbeiten/Collage – Works, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany

Lance Letscher, New Work, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX, catalog

Lance Letscher, New work in Cut Paper, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2002 Lance Letscher, Someone’s Life, Collages and Drawings, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY, catalog

Lance Letscher, Collage & Drawings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

2001 Lance Letscher, D. Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2000 New Work, Lance Letscher, Slugfest Gallery, Austin, TX Fall, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

1999 Games and Puzzles, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX

Paper Work, Slugfest Gallery, Austin, TX

1998 Lance Letscher: Drawings, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX

1997 Lance Letscher, James Gallery, Houston, TX

The Small Island, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

1996 Lance Letscher, James Gallery, Houston, TX

1991 The Tree, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

1990 White, N.NO.O. Gallery, Dallas, TX

The Angel of Gravity, James Gallery, Houston, TX

Lance Letscher and David Mackie — New Work, James Gallery, Houston, TX

1989 Lance Letscher: Sculpture, Prints, and Painting, Richard/ Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Home, N.NO.O. Gallery, Dallas, TX

Lance Letscher, Trans AvantGarde Gallery, Austin, TX

Lance Letscher, James/ Schubert Gallery, Houston, TX Galeria “ON,” Poznan, Poland

1988 Lance Letscher, Galeria “ON”, Poznan, Poland

Lance Letscher, James/ Schubert Gallery, Houston, TX

1987 Lance Letscher, R.G.K. Foundation, Austin, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

2017 Supernature, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2015 Vices Peculiar to these Eclectics: Contemporary Collage, Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Art Gallery, St John’s University, Queens, NY Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2014 Longitude/Latitude Part 1, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2010 Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussells

2008 Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2007 Lance Letscher and Fred Stonehouse, Tammen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Pavel Zoubok, NY

2006 The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Terra Firma, Blue Star, San Antonio, TX

Object, DBerman Gallery,

Austin, TX

Double Vision: Exhibiting Contemporary Artists for 25 Years, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX

Group Exhibition, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Objectification, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

Something Red, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

Material Possibilities, Griffith Gallery, Steven F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

BirdSpace: A Post Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Traveled to: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, McDough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, catalog

2003

Something Blue, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

Atlantic, Group show of British and American artists, Fosterart, London, England

Collage: Letscher, Stonehouse, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Light, D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2002 Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany

Joseph Jansen and Lance Letscher, DBerman Gallery, Austin TX

Round One, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX

Mary Frasher and Lance Letscher, Mari Michener Gallery, James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado, Greely, CO

Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

Working the Grid, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossmann Gallery, Lafayette University, Easton, PA, catalog Chicago Art Exposition,

Howard Scott Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001 Sublime: The Landscape Reenvisioned, The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

Counterpoint, University

Art Gallery, Fain Fine Arts Center, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX

Winter Group Exhibition, D Berman Gallery, Austin, TX

2000 Drawing, DBerman Gallery, Austin, TX

Lance Letscher and Werner Schmidt, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY

Retrospective, Prospective, Ann Reed Gallery, Ketchum ID

Lance Letscher and Bradley Wester, New Gallery, Houston, TX

Works on Paper, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY

Brand New Day, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX

Plunge, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX

Lance Letscher and Benné Rocket, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX

1999 Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the 21st Century, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC. Traveled to: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore and Jakarta.

Transcending Limits: Moving Beyond Mainstream and Margin, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX

Dissolving Language, ACA Gallery, Austin, TX

Texas Paper, UTA Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

1998 Contemporary Prints and Drawings: A Decade of Acquisitions, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Selected Works, Rudolf Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

Under a DADA Moon, ACA Gallery, Austin, TX

It’s About Design, Women and Their Works Gallery, Austin, TX

Ars Botanica, Austin College, Ida Green Gallery, Sherman, TX

Group Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

1998 Works on Paper, National Art Exhibition: Poverty, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY

National Showcase 1998

Exhibition, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1997 Texas II (Invitational), Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

1997 Critic’s Choice, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas

Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

James Gallery, Houston, TX

1996 Schemata: Drawings by Sculptors, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, catalogue

1993 Critics Choice, D-Art Visual Center, Dallas, TX, catalogue

Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

Personal Attachments: The Art of Collage/Assemblage, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX

La Dolce Vita, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

1992 New Works by Austin Artists, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

On Death, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX

1991 New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

Gensler and Associates 25th Anniversary Show, Houston, TX

Contemporary Art in Austin Collections, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

Austin Annual, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

Take a Seat, Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, Innova

Building, Houston, TX

The Union Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

1990 Contemporary Texas Prints, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, catalogue

Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, Rice University, Houston, TX

The New Fabricants, Richard Bennett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Ordinary Object as Extraordinary Subject, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

The Door Show, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

1989 Retro Future, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Nature Morte, Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX

Art as Religion, Richard/ Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Distinctive Vision, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Another Reality, HooksEpstein Galleries, Houston, TX, catalogue

On the Edge, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin TX.

Juror’s Choice Award Touring Citation, catalogue

The Intimate Collage, Watson Gallery, Houston, TX

Texas Printmaking, 1989, Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX

Positions, Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX

1988 Los Angeles Art Expo, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Alchemy, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Printmaking in Texas, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

September, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX

Sixty-Four Beds Project, Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX

Almost Functional, Richard/

Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The New Code, Richard/ Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Huntington at 25: The Gallery Collects, The Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Theresa Hubbard, Jean Goehring, Lance Letscher, Blue Collar Gallery, San Antonio, TX

The East End Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX

1987 Small Wonders, Marvin Seline Gallery, Austin, TX

Impressions, Austin Visual Arts Association, Moody Gallery, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX

Fruit of the Light, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX

Traveling Group Exhibition: Baylor University, Waco, TX; Abilene Christian College, Abilene, TX; and Concordia Lutheran College, Austin, TX, catalog

Austin Annual ‘87, Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX

Nancy Mozingo, Lance Letscher and Phillip Knoll, The New Art Gallery, San Angelo, TX

Texas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Lance Letscher and Dennis

Olsen, James/Schubert Gallery, Houston, TX

Found, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

Lance Letscher and Kalman

Spelletich, Blue Collar Gallery, San Antonio, TX

New American Talent 1987, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, Touring Citation

5th Annual Small Impressions ‘87, Printmaking Council of New Jersey Gallery: Ximmerli Museum, Rutgers University

and Montclair Art Museum, catalogue

43rd Annual Competition, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX

Significant Contributions, Mexic Arte Gallery, Austin, TX

Gallery Artists Group

Exhibitions, James/Schubert Gallery, Houston, TX

Gallery Artists Group

Exhibitions, Marvin Seline Gallery, Austin, TX

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

Museum of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Texas State University Permanent Collection, San Marcos, TX

Libres Del Trapez, S.A., Barcelona, Spain

Temple Emanu El, Houston, TX

Andrews & Kurth, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

BHP Petroleum, Houston, TX

Bell & Murphy, Houston, TX

California State University Print Collection, Long Beach, CA

Cox & Smith, San Antonio, TX

Dean Witter Reynolds, Houston, TX

Dell Childrens Medical Center, Austin TX

HMSS, Houston, TX

Leigh, Smitherman, Edwards, Houston, TX

Memorial Hospital System, Houston, TX

North American Mortgage, Houston, TX

Pan Energy, Houston, TX

St. Maximillian Kolbe Catholic Church, Houston, TX

Texas Bank, McAllen, TX

USAA, Reston, VA; Sacramento, CA, and San Antonio, TX

Woodard, Hall & Primm, Houston, TX

American Airlines Admirals Club, Austin, TX

SAFECO, Seattle, WA

Open Diagnostic Imaging Center, Dallas, TX

The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio

The May and Samuel Rudin Foundation, New York City

Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

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This catalog complements Lance Letscher’s exhibition A Road in the Air

Maya Frodeman Gallery

03 April - 24 May 2026

Images courtesy of the artist

© 2026 All Rights Reserved

Chief, (detail), Collage on vintage printmaking paper

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