Containers #222, 1987
Acrylic on Canvas, 41" x 72"
Oscar Lakeman was born in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1949. He received a B.F.A. from Kent State University, Ohio, in 1972. His work can be found in several private and corporate collections and has been shown in galleries in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, and Dallas, as well as at the Tampa Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and the Isetan Gallery in Tokyo. Lakeman, who has been painting since he was twelve years old, achieved overnight success with his exhibition at OK Harris Gallery in New York in 1984. Typical subjects of his realistic, oversize still lifes are the paintbrushes, jars, cans, and mugs that populate his studio. Striking in visual impact, the works are done partly with an airbrush and partly by slinging or dribbling paint onto the canvas.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.