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Holly Lane
Carved Frame Paintings
"Seeing in the Dark"
2016
Acrylic on panel, carved stained wood
17" x 16 1/4" x 4 1/4"
Nocturne; Sleeping Under Velvet
2016
Acrylic and carved wood
25 1/2" x 24" x 8"
All Will Be Well
2016
Acrylic on panel, carved wood
17"x 15 1/2" x 4"
Private Collection
While an undergraduate in painting I began to think about frames. At that time, if a painting had a frame at all, it was a thin line, serving as protection for the art, and as conceptual dividing line. The frame was a demarcation that indicated that all that was within was art – the frame itself, and all that was outside the frame was not art. A good frame was to be inconspicuous.
While pondering the nature of frames, I found some illuminated manuscripts in the University library, and saw how the borders visually commented on the text, sometimes even spoofing the text. From this discovery I realized that a frame could be many things; it could be an informing context, an environment, a fanfare, a shelter, it could extent movement, it could be a conceptual or formal elaboration, it could embody ancillary ideas, it could be like a body that houses and expresses the mind, and many other permutations. From that point I began to create pieces that fused frame and painting, with some pieces having doors that open and close over paintings to suggest; contingency, time, potentiality, future, past, or cause and effect.
To experience the space of a painting we project our minds into the painting, consequently I see pictorial space as mind space. The spatial qualities of sculpture exist in our own physical space; we walk around it, proportion our bodies to it - in part, it is apprehended or 'seen' by the body. By fusing sculptural frames with pictorial images I hope to address both the mind and body.
Some re-occurring themes are: interspecies compassion, philosophical proofs of animal cognition (e.g. the correction of errors, pretense, and awareness of other minds), re-presenting women from a woman artist's perspective, finding hidden implication in myths and eco-psychology.
In addition to the frame/painting pieces, in recent years I have begun a series of purely sculptural pieces, of gilded carved wood. Each gold sculpture starts solely with the relationships of forms and shapes guided by a love of proportion. Only when the sculpture is complete do I see the iconographical and philosophical sources that were subconsciously feeding my decisions and creative process. Body-like the gilding layers a radiant skin onto the form.
Visually, I am drawn to; architecture, ecclesiastical furniture, light on water, clouds, lace, freak vegetables, models of the internal organs of various species, the contours of soft serve ice cream, stalactites, stalagmites, fungi, crowded forms, sooty lines, diffused edges and evening light.
"Night Singing"
2016
Acrylic on panel, carved wood
14 3/4" x 12" x 4 3/4"
Private Collection
"Four Consolations"
2015
Mixed Medium; carved wood, acrylic paint on panel, paper quilling
27 1/4" x 22 1/2" x 6"
This piece has black doors encrusted with quilling, paper filigree spirals, that open to reveal more paintings inside. Please click on gray squares under the image to see details and more images.
Between Day-past and Dawn (for Carolyn, In Memoriam)
2015
Acrylic and carved wood
20 3/4" x 15 1/8" x 4 3/4"
"Indwelling"
2014
Acrylic on panel, carved wood
22 1/2" x 29" x 8 3/8"
Sculpture
"From Darkness, Spire Growing from Its Unconscious Foundation"
2014
Gilded Carved Wood
26 3/4" x 24" x 24"
In its budding phase this spire is forming upon a low black plinth,indicating that an individual's subconscious/unconscious supports and shapes one's conscious life.
"The Extended Mind"
2012
Gilded Carved Wood
31 5/8" x 13 1/6" x 11 1/8"
"The Well-Traveled Mind Prepared for Sea Level Rise"
2012
Gilded Carved Wood
19 1/2" x 32 1/2" x 11 1/2"
"Emulating Birds, They Too Would Stand in Polite Proximity"
2012
Gilded Carved Wood
23 1/2" x 30" x 12 1/2"
"Found In Quietude"
1998
Wood
18" x 10 1/2" x 9"
(Private Collection)
"For Those Who Make Gentle the Life of This World"
2009
Gilded Carved Wood
17 5/8" x 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Artworks From 1988 - 1999
"Culture Preconditions and Frames Perception of Nature"
1988
Mixed Medium
19 3/4" x 31 1/2" x 4 7/8"
"They Ran With the Clatter of Disappointment in Their Ears"
1989
Mixed Medium
17 1/2" x 45 3/4" x 4"
(Public collection, Principal Financial Group)
The Effects of Good Stewardship"
1990
Mixed Medium
16 1/2" x 48 3/4" x 3 3/4"
(Private Collection)
1990
Mixed Medium
16 1/2" x 48 3/4" x 3 3/4"
(Private Collection)
"We Heard the Watchman Singing"
1990
Mixed Medium
24 1/4" x 29 5/8" x 4 1/4"
(Private Collection)
