Executive Market
Stephen Lack, 1986, Acrylic on canvas, 72" x 48"
Lack’s tongue-in-cheek humour, which sometimes edges quite dark, is on display in this work, an incisive social commentary on the nature of capitalist exploitation. The figures are characteristic of his early style, which shows no reverence towards sex and embraces the depiction of transgression. The mundane and the shocking are yoked through title and oeuvre, as Lack gives us a look into a backroom of the house we pass unthinkingly every day.