First Tuesday SMTX Film Series is showing “The Secret Life of Lance Letscher,” a documentary about an Austin-based collage artist at the Price Center in San Marcos on August 5.
Subtitled “Memory and Color Collide. Chaos ensues.”, director Sandra Adair has drawn a personal, psychological portrait of the artist. Told through his memories of trauma and triumph, the film provides a doorway into the artist’s insights on creativity, the subconscious, his work ethic and spirituality.
Indiewire magazine wrote that the documentary “shows the painfully beautiful chaos of the artist’s mind.”
Known for his meticulously constructed compositions, Letscher’s work is about arrangements of color and content. According to his biographers, the artist allows his intuition to follow endless permutations of form revealed through subtly complex compositional choices.
Letscher has said, “I am a disciple of ‘the unseen hand.’ I am all about working in a way that takes as much of the control away from my conscious mind as possible.”
The film is directed by Oscar- nominated feature film editor Sandra Adair, who is known, among many other things, for editing 22 of Richard Linklater’s films over the last 30 years, such as “Boyhood,” “Bernie,” “School of Rock” and “Dazed and Confused.”
The film features over 100 of his collages, sculptures and installations, many of which are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Austin Museum of Art, and the Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.
A post-film question and answer period will be held by Producer Kristi Frazier and Beverly Mangham, co-director of the Eye of the Dog Art Center in San Marcos.
Tickets are $9. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and complementary pizza and drinks are served from 6:30 p.m., until the film starts at 7. The Price Center is located at 222 W. San Antonio St. in San Marcos. For more information about First Tuesday SMTX, visit firsttuesdaysmtx. com.
