Lance Winn on January 28, 2007

Lance thinks and comes up with ideas easier when he is actively working in his studio. He thinks of art as generative; in hopes of finding something new he works with the same material or a same idea over and over. He is influenced by Jasper Johns who has broken up his canvas to think of other things besides what is the content and subject. For example his famous painting of the American flag is what he started out with but he found things that he wanted to change within his painting because he was not distracted by the pattern. Lance also seems to be influenced by media images and words to begin his works of art.

Lance describes his own artwork as illusions which have a quick breakdown into what they really are. One of his pieces that compiles his interests into one is called "Just A Thought". It is based off of a photograph of a woman who jumped off the Empire State Building in the 1950's. There are many panels with the image of the woman in silkscreen on plexiglass. The plexiglass has been warped to form the raised letters within the image that spell "just a thought". The images are hard to make out at first due to the use of bright colors and the words did not stand out until he showed us a diagonal view of his piece.

He uses the basic colors of red, yellow, and blue to create many different colors by overlapping the short strokes. In his piece "Atomic Clock" the layers of color are revealed with the ticking of the minute, hour, and second hands to create an image of an atomic bomb. He also began to experiment with dipping a brush into ink to outline a word until it creates a form. Using this technique he has created other images of abstract nature scenes with trees and words intertwined.

Lance's vivid imagination, humor, and societal views has influenced his art throughout the years.