The Spaces Between, I looked Inside
Submitted by Tina Newlove on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 09:13
I first saw Cal Lane's work in 2007 in a slide show presented at The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto by Ray Cronin and later some actual pieces at the Latcham Gallery.
I felt an immediate afinitiy with her work. I have on a smaller and more fragile way incorporated lace work into my paper pieces for a number of years now.
From my show Protection 2008 at the Latcham Gallery, Maura Broadhurst, the curator says
In other works Newlove incorporates the actual surface as part of the work. I Looked Inside and Hope Burst, for instance, show abstract patterns framed by the border of the of the page which the artist has cut out to create an intricate lace-like frame. The reference to doilies and other feminine lace traditions is clear and builds a bridge between her painting, which references such male-dominated history, and this more traditionally female craft. A frame, a solid form used on paintings to protect them, here is as delicate as lace. Again there is a subtle suggestion that this protection is needed even to safeguard such strong images as those presented in these paintings.
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