Originally hailing from Nova Scotia, Canada, Cal Lane has worked out of Putnam Valley, New York for the last 20 years. Her multi-disciplinary practice explores the paradoxical implications of gender and associated cultural traditions and expectations, as expressed through found objects and materials. Lane is best recognized for her steel works, into which she plasma cuts intricate, lace-like patterns. The juxtaposition of steel, a traditionally masculine and industrial material used in objects like oil drums, shovels, car hoods and barbells with the patterns of lace, associated with femininity and domesticity, provides viewers an opportunity to examine their personal assumptions about gender. Lane’s preoccupation with this topic has its roots in her background as both a hairdresser and later, a welder. Her love/hate relationship with steel has given her license to subvert its popular meanings while celebrating its tensile strength, as she does her best to push the limits of how much it can be altered.

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C24 EXHIBITIONS

2023   CONFLICTED

2022   IN HER SPACE

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ART FAIRS

2023   CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL 

  

NEWS

2022     BORED PANDA

2022     CBC NEWS

2022    STUDIO MAGAZINE

2022     INTERLOCUTOR

2022     COLOSSAL

2022      IN THEIR STUDIOS

2015      COLOSSAL

2014      SCULPTURE 

2012      MY MODERN MET

2008     THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

2007     THE NEW YORK TIMES

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