Al Lachman
Celebrating his 65th year as a professional artist, Al Lachman continues to blaze his own trail onto the national and Bucks County art scene. Originally from New York City, Lachman has lived and worked in the New Hope area for the last 20 years. “I have sold my paintings throughout the U.S. and abroad, but this is where I want to be.” Lachman’s exhibition for his 65th Annual Show, “Landscapes of the Mind and Soul”, will be on display from November 9 – December 29, 2019 at his gallery in Peddler’s Village. The 65th Annual Show will seek to reflect the full range of his paintings from realism to abstraction.
Lachman explains, “All art is abstract to some degree. It is either one percent abstract or one hundred percent abstract or somewhere in between. We are all unique…there is no one that is exactly like another, and it is that uniqueness within the artist that manifests itself into the work, therefore making it a work of art.”
Lachman paints every day. He is driven by his insatiable desire to do so. Having studied art at Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League of NYC, as well as an instructor at the League, most of what he has learned and accomplished he has achieved on his own. As Degas aptly said, “You spend your first lifetime learning how to do it, and your second lifetime unlearning everything that you were taught…and that’s when you really become an artist.”
Each beginning of a painting is different for Lachman, and he works with many mediums (oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, etc.) often within the same painting. Lachman explains, “Each medium has its own personality…things it can do and things it cannot. So when I put them together in the same painting, I can achieve something truly unique. I am a morning painter. I get up and I go to work. I then say to myself … how can I paint this differently than I have ever painted it before? I challenge myself with the possibility of failure so that I can find new edges within myself … but I don’t allow it to fail. I stay with it, as long as it takes, until the magic is there.”
“Painting is what I do … it is who I am. But in the end, the art that I create is all that’s important…not me.”
For more information, contact Lachman Gallery, 215-794-5500 or visit www.allachman.com.