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Lance Green was born in Denver, Colorado in 1953 and was raised there until age ten. For several years to come he moved all around the southwest with his mother and stepfather, livng in the majestic high country of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, the Bayous of Lake Texarkana and the High Deserts of New Mexico and Arizona where he was immersed in Native Art and Culture. During the summers he would live with his father who was married to Chris Christopherson, a Norwegian painter that schooled him in the arts, especiallymodern art.As a teen he & his family settled in the East Los Angeles area where they remained throughout his high school years. It was there that he also developed a deep love for Latin Art and Culture. While attending high school, his art teacher, Linda Stevens, who took an interest in him and gave him the instruction and guidance needed to set his life course as an artist. He majored in art at Rio Hondo College in East L.A.and became a fixture in the South Bay L.A. art scene until his move to Colorado in 2004. In the late 1990’she did a series of intensive one on one workshops with the late contemporary Master Fritz Scholder. His influences include the BayArea Figurative Expresionists, in particular Nathan Oliviera,and Manuel Neri.,Mexican Masters, esp. Laura Hernandez and Rufino Tamayo. However, apart from influences, Lance is a Pioneer in the world of contemporary painting exploring worlds previously uncharted. |
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