Cal Lane Canada, b. 1968

While originally hailing from Nova Scotia, Cal Lane has worked out of Putnam Valley, New York for the past two decades, drawing on her experience as a professional welder in her multidisciplinary artistic practice. Lane is best known for her metal sculptures, plasma cutting into steel and iron structures to produce intricate, lace-like patterns. Her work juxtaposes these traditionally masculine industrial cast-offs–oil drums, car hoods, barbells–with the delicate, sensual, and deeply feminine tapestries and lattices she carves into them, prompting the onlooker to reflect on the interwoven gender roles at play in her sculptural expression.