Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present A Road in the Air, a solo exhibition with artist Lance Letscher, on view at the gallery's downtown location from April 3rd through May 24th, 2026. An artist reception will be held Friday, April 3rd from 5 to 7pm. Letscher will be in attendance. All are welcome to attend.
The exhibition’s title comes from a large-scale work made from a salvaged, unstretched canvas that Letscher encountered and immediately envisioned as a vast expanse of sky. A myriad of planes of varying size are suspended in the center of the canvas, bordered by a vibrant array of flora and fruit. For Letscher, airplanes offer a familiar visual vocabulary rooted in childhood memories of watching planes cross the sky, serving as a means to explore light, perspective, and spatial tension.
Letscher attended the University of Texas where he received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and his Master of Fine Arts. He later apprenticed for Amado Peña, an artist known for his Southwestern-style prints. He currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. His work is held in public and private collections around the country and has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Observer, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. A full-length monograph of his work, Lance Letscher: Collage, was published in 2009, and The Perfect Machine, a children’s book published by UT Press, was published in 2010. The feature documentary The Secret Life of Lance Letscher by Sandra Adair was released in 2017.
