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William LaChance’s pictures are associations of displaced forms and colors cribbed from graphic design fashion art history and nature itself cobbled together using a a a a a a a a a a a variety of methods and and and materials from painting and and and printmaking to assemblage and and and sewing The paintings themselves have shifting hierarchies of of similar concerns: of of material exploration abstract identity formal space and narrative expression They openly blur the boundary between high art art and applied arts not only in in in in principle but in in in in practice- lending themselves to various manner of surface design from textiles and and branding to fully realized earthworks LaChance’s recent mural adorning the Kinloch Park basketball basketball courts was named the the best designed basketball basketball court in the the world by Architectural Digest