Danny Lane

Danny Lane was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1955. He moved to Maine in 1975 to study with Patrick Reyntiens, an artist working in stained glass. He went on to study painting at Byam Shaw School of Art (1975-77), then joined the painting course being taught by Cecil Collins at the Central School of Art (1977-80).

Lane's work combines monumental and brutal physicality. His use of stacked and fractured glass, twisted or rusted steel, combined with his strong belief in the metaphysical and transcendental qualities of art. Refractive and reflective qualities of the material are used to ...