Lance Paull

My practice is an exploration of the revealing power of light. I have always identified as a visual storyteller, a path that began at age eight when I chose art lessons over guitar. Since those early days painting pictures of buffalo in
snowy fields of Utah to my formative years studying old masters, visiting museums and cathedrals of Europe, I remain captivated with how light defines the world around us.

Under the mentorship of James Weeks and Philip Guston at Boston University, I came to understand visual language not as decoration but as a vehicle for complex thought. Throughout my work, light functions as a narrator, pulling and pushing form in and out of shadows, creating layered
narratives within a single moment.

Working in acrylic and mixed media, I accumulate marks and build surfaces to find the right combination of materials to define subjects and space. I use light to guide the eye through the image, exposing or obscuring form to explore the tension between the seen and the unseen. My hope is that each work becomes an invitation to slow down, look again, and find meaning in what the light has chosen to illuminate.

1978 BFA Painting and Drawing, College of Fine Arts, University of Utah
1981 MFA Painting, School of Visual Arts, Boston University

GRANTS
1979 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation: Montreal, QC

1979 Utah Originals Exhibition, Works by Intermountain Artists, SLC, UT
1979 Teaching Assistant, University of Utah, SLC, UT
1981 Boston University MFA Thesis Show, Boston, MA
1982 Faculty Exhibition, Art Institute of Boston, Boston City Hall Gallery, MA
1983 Faculty Exhibition, Art Institute of Boston, Boston City Hall Gallery, MA
1984 Contemporary Artists in the Figurative Mode, Fitchburg Art Museum, MA
1985 Solo Exhibition, “Lance Paull Paintings” Chapel Gallery Newton, MA
2016 Solo Exhibition, “In Visible Light” The Brooklyn Workshop Gallery, NY
2017 Group Art Exhibition, “REversion” Superwonder Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 Online Group Exhibition, “Greyscale” BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2021 Online Group Exhibition, “A Thousand Words” The Curator’s Salon, London, UK
2022 Art Seen, Curator’s Salon Magazine, Spring ’22 (Issue #3) London, UK
2023 Guest Artist Showcase, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
2023 Solo Show, Westside Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
2023 Group Show, “Everything Blue” MVA Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2024 Group Show, “Across the Line” Studio Montclair, Montclair NJ
2024 Group Show, “Ellarslie Open 41” Trenton Museum, Trenton NJ
2024 Group Show, “16th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition”
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