Entering the Celestial Space of Rico Lascano
On view at Art Anton is Rico Lascano's "Heofon," the title coming from an Old English word meaning "the heavens or the skies." The artist intends to evoke celestial space—boundless, endless, with no beginning or end, eternal. In brief, a space where the Divine resides. The subject, or orientation, is not new to the artist. Indeed since the start of his career, Lascano has always veered toward the abstract, the minimalist, the inward-looking, the transcendent, the luminescent, all executed in various applications with the flooding of light. His initial shows were markedly Zen, reflections on bodies of water [...]