Borns in 1971. Lives and works in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
William LaChance’s pictures are associations of displaced forms and colors cribbed from graphic design, fashion, art history and nature itself cobbled together using a variety of methods and materials from painting and printmaking to assemblage and sewing. The paintings themselves have shifting hierarchies of similar concerns: of material exploration, abstract identity, formal space and narrative expression.
They openly blur the boundary between high art and applied arts not only in principle but in practice- lending themselves to various manner of surface design, from textiles and branding to fully realized earthworks. LaChance's recent mural adorning the Kinloch Park basketball courts was named the best designed basketball court in the world by Architectural Digest.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019. Strolling Astronomer, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2019. New Works, Haw Contemporary, Crossroads Location, Kansas City, MO (forthcoming) Sixes and 2019. Sevens, Madison Gallery, San Diego, CA
2019. Group Exhibition with Ekta and Mafia Tabak, Delimbo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018. Large Scale Murals at the Phillips Arena
2018. Art Expo Chicago
2018. "(After) Edge City", BEERS London
2018. R/SF Projects San Francisco
2017. BEERS London
2017. The Hole, New York City
2017. Kinlock Park Basketball Courts: A 20,000 square foot mural covering three basketball courts, named best designed court in the world by Architectural Digest
2017. Art Athena International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2017. Chart Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017. Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2017. 0-0 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2017. "Floating Vibes", Junior Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017. Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany
2006-2016
Houska Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
New Abstract Works, SIBA Gallery
New Abstract and Figurative Works, SIBA Gallery
"Observing the Observer", SIBA Gallery
Lambert International Airport
Beverly Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois
St. Louis Arts and Education Council, Centene Center for the Arts
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Personal Allegories", C.O.C.A. Millstone Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
"Recent Trends: Works on Paper", C.O.C.A. Millstone Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, Juror: Michael Byron
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Mark Palmer Gallery, Paducah, Kentucky
Gallery Fraga, Seattle, Washington
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
