856 G Gallery Presents Charles Lahti

On November 20, 2014 6:00 pm Thursday, 856 G gallery will present to the Cebuano art scene, the works of Charles Lahti.

Painter and printmaker Charles Lahti has been a creative force within New York’s art community for more than three decades. His career in the visual arts began in 1977 when the Minnesota native relocated to Manhattan to work as a printer at Styria Studios. Later, he went on to work with some of the giants of postwar American art, including Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, and LeRoy Neiman.

Throughout his career, which has spanned the commercial and fine art worlds, 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, when that area was beginning to be a center for art production, have long been centers for learning and experimentation by several generations of painters and printmakers. His paintings, which appeared in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite, are regularly exhibited in the United States and collected internationally.

856 G gallery is located at Business Wall, 856 A.S. Fortuna St. Banilad, Mandaue City 6014 Cebu City Philippines.