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Form/Space Atelier Program For June 2010
Form/Space Atelier Program For June 2010
Show Title: Recent Studies and Paintings
Show Duration: June 17-July 11,2010
Vernissage: June 17, 6PM
Recent Paintings and Studies is a solo show of paintings by master artist
Michael Lane. Subjects of the exhibit include images of the artists
recently deceased mother.
Michael Lane was given private art lessons all throughout grade and middle
school. He was exhibiting as semi-professional artist from the age of 11,
and as a professional artist by age 14.
His concentration in art throughout high school focused on printmaking under
guidance of Tyler School of Art trained instructor William Luber (stone
lithography, screen printing, intaglio, relief printmaking techniques and
illustration).
After leaving high school in 1984, he worked as a professional portrait and
wedding photographer and in dark rooms for commercial printing companies in
Philadelphia, PA while training at night in traditional figurative painting
techniques at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia during the week and at
The Philadelphia Sketch Club on weekends.
He began full-time fine art study on a full scholarship at The Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts in 1988 as a painting major with a sculpture minor,
studying under Ben Kamahira, Roswell Weidner, Sidney Goodman, Lou Sloan,
Elizabeth Osbourne and Arthur De Costa.
In 1994, he went on to assist the great artist/chemist/art historian Arthur
De Costa in his studio, and in 1995 Lane began a two-year private
apprenticeship with celebrity portrait painter Nelson Shanks at his home and
studio in Andalusia, PA. "This was the most important phase of my training.
Nelson taught me to paint," Lane says.
While executing commissioned portraits and teaching drawing over the next 10
years, he began designing sets for theater, film and TV, and went on to work
for Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera,
Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet and many other companies and as
designer, painter and sculptor.
He also ran a print shop, mural company, faux-finishing studio, mold-making
service and sculpture department for fabrication companies.
Lane is now happy to be a full-time painter and part-time fine-art teacher
in Seattle, WA. He is represented by Seattle gallery Form/Space Atelier.
Artist's Statement
People make art in order to enlarge their means of expression. Art is a
powerful means of communication which can convey things to an audience which
using words alone cannot. We are artists because we have a strong desire to
interest others in what has interested us. We render an object and/or convey
our feelings to make those feelings or that object real to another person.
Our art can be said to be successful in the proportion that it produces
these shared feelings of reality in a viewer.
In taking up the study of any art a vast field is unfolded. To the earnest
student, it means unlimited possibilities and endless sources of delight.
Robert Henri said
The artist applies much careful thought when choosing what to include in a
work of art. It is in the value of what we think that we develop as artists.
We develop our thoughts along with our eyes.
The true artist must be a careful workman. We work towards a true mastery of
our materials and tools and strive for a complete understanding of the
medium in which we work. The more we study art the more we realize that
materials are of great importance in the expression of thought.
But we are not only artists when we have a tool in hand. We are always
artists, and are busy seizing impressions and suggestions and storing them
in mind for a later time. We learn, as artists, to be interested in and to
derive great pleasure from seeing what other people have not learned to see
so that we can then share these feelings and impressions.
For additional information and images of Michael Lane's work, please visit
www.michaellane.net.
