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)
New Works, Haw Contemporary, Crossroads Location, Kansas City, MO (forthcoming) Sixes and Sevens, Madison Gallery, San Diego, CA
Group Exhibition with Ekta and Mafia Tabak, Delimbo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018
Large Scale Murals at the Phillips Arena
Art Expo Chicago
"(After) Edge City", BEERS London
R/SF Projects San Francisco
2017
BEERS London
The Hole, New York City
Kinlock Park Basketball Courts: A 20,000 square foot mural covering three basketball courts, named best designed court in the world by Architectural Digest
Art Athena International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, Greece
Chart Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway
0-0 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Floating Vibes", Junior Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
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
