Charles Lahti Studios

can art, including Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, and LeRoy Neiman. Throughout his career, Lahti has emphasized and gravitated towards collaboration and experimentation. Always captivated by the nexus of art and community, he was at the forefront of a number of nascent creative mediums, including performance, graffiti and multimedia art. His studios, first on the Lower East Side and then in Bushwick, have long been centers for learning and development for several generations of artists and printmakers. His works are regularly exhibited and collected internationally

My works are moments of time captured in paint, an index of moods and impressions. Points of light are revealed, fragments of figuration, a landscape of dream-impressions, free-flowing and chimerical. The viewer is invited to become enmeshed in these discontinuous experiences, to synthesize them through the lens of painting. Here are series of ‘yeses, nos and maybes’ that perhaps contain a notion or meaning just beyond our grasp and yet fully within it, an amplification of an internal dynamic that varies with each perceiver.

—CHARLES LAHTI