LANCE CHANG (American)

Lance received his BA from the Brooks Institute of Photography in 1999. He also studied art under the mentorship of Karl Benjamin at Pomona College. Karl was an American painter of vibrant “hard-edged” geometric abstractions, who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists.

Inspired by Karl Benjamin’s aesthetic combinations of color and form, Helmut Newton’s bold portrayal of sexy, strong women, and Howard Schatz’s ethereal underwater photographs of dancers, Lance embarked on his iconic, groundbreaking body of work and continues to expand his vision of presenting the viewer with familiar images that they have never seen before. Like the mysterious and ever-changing Aurora Borealis (northern lights), Lance uses distortion and blur to enhance the movement and dreamlike quality of his art. Through this distortion, Lance allows viewers to tap into their own fleeting and familiar recollections to shape the story behind the image. Lance’s art is sometimes beautiful, sometimes dark, and often evokes memories of childhood fairy tales. Lance’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Dance.

Lance Chang is represented by ACCA, Beverly Hills.

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Saturday, April 15, 2023 - Friday, June 15, 2023.

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This solo exhibition examines the artistic dialogue between the artist and his muses from Southern California to New York. The exhibition showcases Lance Chang’s artwork created coast-to-coast, from dancers on pointe above Lake Hollywood to ballerinas pirouetting in Central Park, with a special appearance by Los Angeles-based ballerina Stephanie Hall. As one of our invited guests, come and enjoy art, champagne and chocolate with VIPs from Beverly Hills and the surrounding art and cultural hubs from WeHo/NoHo. The exhibition is organized by ACCA and has been reviewed by renowned art critic Peter Frank who wrote an essay about Chang’s practice.

PREMIERED IN BEVERLY HILLS.

AT LANCE CHANG SOLO EXHIBITION IN BEVERLY HILLS.

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Los Angeles, CA (April 17, 2023) – Over the weekend, ACCA (Fine Arts Company, Beverly Hills) opened its highly-anticipated artist reception. ACCA and Lance Chang unveiled an exhibit with never before seen works. BALLERINAS COAST-TO-COAST: LA x NY includes 5 pieces of art that have never been viewed and 13 other works. The exhibit includes unique mixed media artworks, as well as exhibition catalogues, and special gift shop items. The exhibition is being held at the ACCA Gallery in Beverly Hills.

The reception drew famed museum curators, collectors, writers, artists, film producers, fashion designers, all showed up to lend support to ACCA Gallery exhibiting artist Lance Chang. The opening reception offered unveiling of arts never before seen, special appearance by Los Angeles-based ballerina Stephanie Hall, guest speaker International art critic and curator Peter Frank, artist talk, champagne and chocolates and the reception highlights while the artist’s talk (former west coast Editor @Warhol’s Interview & host JQ Profiles & BH View ) Joan Agajanian Quinn said, “There’s movement in all of these photographs and the way the background is manipulated, I think is phenomenal” and (American actress, a former model and top Beauty Influencers make-up artist on Instagram) Charis Michelsen said, “ Lance’s work has so much energy, positively and so uplifting to look at his pieces”

The event was designed and produced by ACCA Fine Arts Company.

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LANCE CHANG: RÊVES DE BALLET

By Peter Frank

More than most art forms, the art of the ballet, steeped in a highly formalized tradition of almost ritualistic storytelling, resists personalized interpretation and eccentric reformulation. Renegade radicals like Sergei Diaghilev and Isadora Duncan may have advanced boundary-shattering approaches, but rather than enter the balletic mainstream these inventions engendered a whole new, parallel category, modern dance. To this day, the ballet per se comprises a procession of gestures and costumes unchanged from Petipa’s day.

Such an orthodox mode of performance, when regarded from the vantage of another art, invites a peculiarly intense reinterpretation -- certainly of the kind Lance Chang proffers in his painterly, metamorphic photographs. In Chang’s fluid, even molten images, the ballerina -- as often as not solo, as if dreaming the experience – fuses with her environment. That environment seems itself alive, organic, breathing and heaving with the efforts of the dancer at once to escape and to fuse with it.

In Chang’s charged apparitions, the dancer, as W. B. Yeats would have it, has become one with the dance. So has the landscape. So has your perception. These are no mere documents of performance, nor even choreographic interpretations; they are fever dreams that unlock the transformative power of ballet, exposing the carnal, epicurean, erotic force that drives all dance and which ballet seeks to harness – but not tame. The camera art of Lance Chang unleashes emotion behind the motion, sensation that has waited in the wings for liberation.

Los Angeles

March 2023

“Masquerade Macabre”

Gala and Performance with Gothic ghostly vampire ballet, aerial dances and...LedZAerial!

Sunday, October 16, 2022 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM

at the AVALON, a historic club in Hollywood, California.

Luminario Ballet Performance, Cocktails, Silent Auction, Dinner, Live Fund-a-Need Auction, and Art Exhibition

We are partnering with Luminario Ballet to present Lance Chang’s photographs from the permanent collection of the National Museum of Dance. This one night only exhibition will take place at the AVALON, a historic club in Hollywood, California, located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, at 1735 N. Vine Street.

ACCA Gallery will be featuring Lance’s painting-like photographs in the lobby. The combination of dream-like locations, dancers’ flowing lines and unchoreographed variations takes you away from the glare of stage light, inviting you to share a more intimate experience.