My First Zine

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Born in Montreal, Canada, Stephen Lack (b. 1946) graduated from McGill University in 1967 with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and then completed his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture at the University of Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 1969. Known as a multidisciplinary artist, he has excelled in the studio arts and theater and has acted in multiple acclaimed films such as Scanners (1981). Lack has been working and exhibiting in New York City since the late 1970s and is among the original artists of the East Village scene. Primarily a figurative painter of confrontational narratives, his work often incorporates elements of landscape, architecture, and the automobile, all with luminous Fauvist brushstrokes.When asked to describe his art, Lack replied, "Everything I do is personal. My paintings are single frames from the life movie we are all sharing." Regarding Lack's paintings and creative life, the late art critic Charlie Finch summed it up in Artnet, "He has been a movie star, a libertine, a devoted family man, and a prickly cat in a cool alley, but, above it all, Stephen Lack remains a painter of particular genius and depth." Lack has been living for many years in Salem, New York and keeps a studio in Manhattan. His works can be found in the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, the Brooklyn Museum, Global Affairs Canada, the New York Public Library, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Art Collection, the Jerusalem Museum in Israel, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, and the Senvest Corporation collection in Montreal.

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Stephen Lack woke up one morning channeling his inner brat! He was not a bad boy, in fact, he was just another excitable kid that wanted to tell you everything he knew. This time, it was about animals. About 70 Animals is a unique coloring book, not only with a drawing of an animal on each page ready for coloring with a few little known facts about that animal, but also space on the page for the child to draw their own animal or habitat related to that animal. The text is direct and to the point, like that of a child writing an essay that is only 3 or 4 lines. The book is meant to be read to the child at bedtime, a few animals before falling asleep, and the filling in of the animals as a coloring book may be done at any time. The author and illustrator Stephen Lack is known for his more confrontational work in both paintings, sculpture and film, but this project is perhaps "the gentlest thing I have ever done. I look at it as a gift."