The mood of his paintings, as seen in his first museum show, ranges from a familiar stillness to the brutal and confrontational. Baudelaire called it "the natural drama inherent in every man." The exhibition is organized by Charles Shepard III, director since 1996 of the Lyman Allyn, which opened in the 1930s as a museum of landscape. The show includes 48 paintings made over the last 15 years. People, suburbia, landscape, wrestlers, kids and cars are among the subjects that have caught Lack's eye. His edgy East Village work, originally staple-gunned to Gracie Mansion's walls, still packs a raw power. The blunt faces of Pass III (1986) have an eerie eroticism, while Boy Kills Friend (1985), a cacophony of color and violence, seems to predict the current plague of teenage testosterone.