We are pleased to announce that Cal Lane is the latest artist to join the growing C24 Gallery roster. Originally hailing from Nova Scotia, Canada, for the last 20 years she has worked out of Putnam Valley, New York, where she currently lives with her family. Lane’s multi-disciplinary body of work explores the paradoxical implications of gender and associated cultural traditions and expectations, as expressed through found objects and materials.
Lane is perhaps best known for her steel pieces 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.