Holly Lane, Wading Through Amber (2020), Acrylic and carved wood, 12.5 x 17.5 x 4.5 inches
Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World, on view August 2 through January 5, showcases a range of Lane’s work garnered from the previous ten-plus years of a multi-decade career. As an art undergraduate, she began considering the relationship of frame to picture. She has since reimagined it into a new art form of her own invention, in which each component—painting and frame—is fundamental to the work as a whole. In a striking symbiosis, she unites each of her paintings with an intricately ornamented wood frame that she designs and carves for it. Her work expresses a profound amalgamation of heartfelt respect for the natural world, particularly the animal kingdom, and architectural and painterly expertise, plus musings on the autonomy of women, world mythology and philosophy.
This exhibition can be found in the Spotlight Gallery.
Holly Lane, Light in the Forest (2020), Acrylic and carved wood, 14" x 17" x 5.75"
The accompanying exhibition, Holly Lane—In the Artist’s Studio, on view August 23 through January 26, a part of NUMU’s innovative ongoing series, offers a rare opportunity for access into Lane’s meticulous step-by-step artistic process. Long a habitual hiker, she develops many of her subject ideas from time spent observing or immersed in the natural world. Hiking photographs, along with sketch books, design layouts, color trials, preparatory diagrams, drawings, and paintings, plus painting and woodworking tools, and works in process will provide invaluable insight into the studio of a contemporary artist whose methods are more closely aligned with a Medieval-era artisan’s workshop.
This exhibition can be found in the Mike & Alyce Parsons Reception.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Holly Lane now resides in Merced, CA, after many years as a resident of San Jose. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout California, New York City, and across the United States, and since the early 1980s has participated regularly in group exhibitions throughout the country. She holds a B.F.A. with Great Distinction in Painting, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, and is the recipient of a 2012-13 Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant. Her work has been reproduced in over fifty publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the art history textbook Artist and Audience, by Terence Grieder. Her work is held in more than ninety private and public collections.
About the Curator
Helaine Glick is an independent curator and art writer. She was an Assistant Curator on the staff of Monterey Museum of Art, where she worked for more than fifteen years. At MMA she curated a range of collection and solo artist exhibitions, plus the major photography exhibitions, In Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography, and Bob Kolbrener: In Real Time. She recently completed two terms as a Trustee at Center for Photographic Art in Carmel where she was Chair of the Programs Committee. She curated a number of exhibitions at CPA, as well as exhibitions for the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, NUMU New Museum Los Gatos, and recently as an independent curator, for the Monterey Museum of Art. She also works as a consultant and art writer for Winfield Gallery in Carmel. She has authored numerous essays for a variety of artist brochures, exhibition catalogues, and books.
