A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery, beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces... Read full biography
A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery, beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces between the 1960s and the 1980s using a method of painting glaze onto flattened circular pieces of... Read full biography
A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery, beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces between the 1960s and the 1980s using a method of painting glaze onto flattened circular pieces of clay. Then he fired them at high temperatures in a way that created "textures approximating color-field explosions on painted canvas. The glazes separated from the surfaces, thereby creating beaded... Read full biography
A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery, beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces between the 1960s and the 1980s using a method of painting glaze onto flattened circular pieces of clay. Then he fired them at high temperatures in a way that created "textures approximating color-field explosions on painted canvas. The glazes separated from the surfaces, thereby creating beaded and streaking textures and effects." . He also used the same approach with earthenware pots, where he experimented with the merging of color glazes. The result was pottery that gave the impression of natural formations such as running water, rocks with... Read full biography
A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery, beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces between the 1960s and the 1980s using a method of painting glaze onto flattened circular pieces of clay. Then he fired them at high temperatures in a way that created "textures approximating color-field explosions on painted canvas. The glazes separated from the surfaces, thereby creating beaded and streaking textures and effects." . He also used the same approach with earthenware pots, where he experimented with the merging of color glazes. The result was pottery that gave the impression of natural formations such as running water, rocks with cracks and fissures, and blowing grasses. Making beads became a happy diversion for Lane... Read full biography
Doyle Lane - Artist Info
About Doyle Lane: Books
Books & Publications (3)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997
Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)
625 pages
Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory