Cal Lane Explained

Cal Lane (born 1968) is a Canadian sculptor, known for creating delicate, lacy sculptures out of industrial steel products.

Early life and education

Lane was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1968^[1] and raised on Vancouver Island, where she trained as a hairdresser and a welder. She has a bachelor's degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase.^[2]

Art

Cal Lane uses a plasma cutter or an oxy-acetylene torch to cut intricate patterns into industrial steel products.^[3]

Lane's work is often described in terms of dichotomy or contrast. Fred A. Bernstein wrote in The New York Times: "The work is about the contrasts between the industrial and the fanciful, the opaque and the transparent."^[4] Writing for Sculpture magazine, Robin Peck said: "The dialectic is obvious: industrial versus domestic, strong versus delicate, masculine versus feminine, functional versus decorative."^[5] Lori Zimmer wrote: "Lane enjoys pushing the dichotomy of feminine and masculine by combining patterns of domesticity with these cold, harsh symbols of masculine blue collar labor."^[6]

Exhibitions

• 2004 Dirt Lace, Wynick/Tuck Gallery
• 2007 Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting Museum of Arts and Design^[7]
• 2008 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
• 2010 Sweet Crude, Art Gallery of Mississauga; Southern Alberta Art Gallery
• 2015 Veiled Hoods and Stains, Yukon Arts Centre
• 2016 Sharjah Art Museum^[2]

Awards

• 2001 International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture
• 2006 Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship
• 2007 Joseph S. Stauffer Prize^[2]

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cal Lane. Artsy. 7 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109180939/https://www.artsy.net/artist/cal-lane. 9 January 2018. live.
2. Book: Cal Lane Curriculum Vitae. 2016. 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180304031927/http://callane.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Cal-Lane-CV.pdf. 4 March 2018. live.
3. Web site: Cal Lane: Crude. deCordova. 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181039/https://decordova.org/art/exhibition/cal-lane-crude. 9 January 2018. live.
4. Bernstein. Fred A.. Turning Steel into Lace. The New York Times. 30 December 2007. 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109122019/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/realestate/30habi.html. 9 January 2018. live.
5. Peck. Robin. Cal Lane: Veiled Histories in Steel. Sculpture. 2014. 33. 6. 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181105/http://sculpture.org/documents/scmag14/julyaug_14/fullfeature.shtml. 9 January 2018. live.
6. Web site: Zimmer. Lori. Artist Cal Lane Transforms Industrial Objects into Intricate Lace Sculptures. Inhabitat. 22 May 2011 . 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109121920/https://inhabitat.com/from-oil-tanks-to-lace-artist-cal-lane/. 9 January 2018. live.
7. Book: Revere., McFadden, David. Radical lace & subversive knitting. 2007. Museum of Arts & Design. Scanlan, Jennifer (Associate curator), Edwards, Jennifer Steifle., Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.). 9781890385125. New York. 122932136.