About

Charles C. Lancaster III (Baltimore, Maryland,1976) is an American artist acclaimed for his large-scale outdoor installations, public monuments, portrait busts, and bronze sculpture work. His site-responsive process creates bronze public monuments that contribute to regional place-making, invoking collective identification, and an expansive sense of American aesthetics. Stylistically, Lancaster’s sculptures reinterpret Classical, Neoclassical, and Baroque movements for multiple points of identification between the present and the past. 

Lancaster has a long-standing commitment to public art that engages historical and institutional identities. His major commissions include projects for the Glenelg Country Day School, Monumental Foot – Pisa (Italy), Earlham College – American Flag Sculpture, The Celtic Dragon, amongst others. He completed his first major public commission in 1999 of a 27-foot rotating American Flag monument sponsored by Earlham College, Miller Farm and the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Richmond Indiana Depot, inspired by the legacy of Alexander Calder. In 2002, he was commissioned to create a portrait bust of Dr. Neill of Johns Hopkins University. A major monumental sculpture of the Glenelg Country School’s dragon mascot, transformed a symbol of school spirit into a lasting work of public art in 2004. His 2014 bronze portrait of Robert H. Smith is currently displayed on view at 1725 DeSales St, N.W. – Washington D.C.

Lancaster’s expertise in baroque sculpture was garnered through studies at El Prado Museum & Facultad de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain) – Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), two year live-work apprenticeship at the Spanish Art Collective Calle Valverde 33, complemented by work as a studio assistant for Barry Johnston, William F. Duffy Studio, and the renowned American sculptor and monument builder – Audrey Flack. His bronze sculptures are held in the collections of John Hopkins University, Gould Property Company, Glenelg Country School, and Mario Bellatalla Collezione D’arte (Pisa, Italy), Collezione Barbieri (Pisa, Italy).

Lancaster received a BA in Epic Literature from Earlham College (1999), a post-baccalaureate degree from Lyme Academy of Art (2006), MBA from Georgetown Univ, McDonough School of Business (2016). Lancaster was 2020 Executive-In-Residence at Saint Francis University School of Business (Loretto, PA).