Suburbia

Stephen Lack

FRIDAY | OCTOBER 7TH | 2022

Stephen Lack was part of the influential East Village art scene in the early 80’s with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Sherie Levine. His favoured subject matter in painting is urban car culture, suburban architecture and cityscapes. Through his neo-expressionist style often depicts nostalgic 1950’s Americana charged with and underlying anxiety that as the artist says; “I like to seduce the viewer into the beauty of the image world and then reveal the threat.”

As an actor Stephen Lack has worked with David Cronenberg in his early films Scanners (1981) and Dead Ringers (1988). He has also been featured in several independent films such as Montreal Main (1974), The Rubber Gun (1978) which he also co-wrote with Allan Moyle and won a Genie award for both screenplay and his performance.

Recent exhibitions include The Times at Flag Art Foundation NYC One Cup Post Eroticism at Ken Nakahashi Gallery Shinjuku, Japan, Suddenness and Certainty at Robert Miller Gallery; NYC. Curated by Robert Greene.

Stephen Lack was born in Montreal in 1946. He graduated from McGill University in 1967 with a Bachelors degree in Psychology. He completed his MFA in sculpture at the University of Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 1969. He has been living for many years in Salem, Upstate New-York and he keeps a studio in Manhattan, N.Y.

His works can be found in the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, department of Global Affairs, Canada, New York Public Library Collection,N.Y.C., Royal Bank of Canada, Jerusalem Museum, Israel, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp and the Senvest Corporation collection, Montreal, Canada.