TERESA HR LANE

TERESA HR L ANE Men at Work

11 Ap r i l to 6 Ma y 201 5

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Wall of Men (2015) gesso & acrylic ink on reclaimed plywood, panel: 1155 x 1140 x 20 mm

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Sea of Men (2015) gesso & acrylic ink on reclaimed plywood, panel: 1170 x 1190 x 20 mm

2

Pointing Man Falling Woman (2015) gesso & acrylic ink on reclaimed plywood, panel: 1185 x 535 x 12 mm

3

Of Hoses and Men (2015) gesso & acrylic ink on reclaimed plywood, panel: 537 x 1197 x 12 mm

4

A Fine Balance of Men (2015) gesso & acrylic ink on reclaimed plywood, panel: 997 x 853 x 20 mm

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Holding Man (2015)

Tying Me

Man Reaching (2015)

Man Stuc

en (2015)

Pointing Man (2015)

ck (2015)

Men Looking (2015)

gesso & acrylic ink on reclaimed plywood panel sizes: ca 542 x 542 x 12 mm each

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Men at Work is recent Elam graduate Teresa HR Lane’s second exhibition. All works are painted on reclaimed construction plywood and in that process Lane has used the organic patterns present in that material as a fundamental aspect of the pictorial surface.

Tensions abound: between the organic and linear; between areas dominated by flat use of colour and the representational drama of figures at work, hovering in space, and silent. Some areas are painted, others drawn.

Gesture, bodily disposition, indications of character and the explicit roles being performed on an industrial building site abound. Lane has choreographed events and tasks in her works like a modern dance. She locates the theatrics of stage drama on the building site. She twists scale, embellishes each event with (ever-present) risk and perilousness, elevating group function and individual roles to a subset of overall purpose. It is a team of separately functioning individuals, alike in manner and depiction: they are a family, a guild, ultimately united and inter-dependent.

Each work is comprised of disjointed elements, presented in isolation or fractured into distinct areas and components. Space and depth are implied and ignored and revealed in every painting.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST 1

Wall of Men (2015)

2,500

2

Sea of Men (2015)

2,500

3

Pointing Man Falling Woman (2015)

1,250

4

Of Hoses and Men (2015)

1,250

5

A Fine Balance of Men (2015)

1,750

6

Holding Man (2015)

750

7

Tying Men (2015)

750

8

Pointing Man (2015)

750

9

Man Reaching (2015)

750

10

Man Stuck (2015)

750

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Men Looking (2015)

750

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

TERESA HR LANE b. 1970, lives Auckland

Teresa Lane: The Might of Meekness (C1-15) (2014)

Teresa Lane combines drawn and painted elements to assemble the outlines of an industrial landscape.

She uses painted geometric forms to manipulate the two-dimensional surface and define space within the picture plane. Lane does not proscribe the exact nature or function of this space, using it instead as a setting for a population of workers whose roles are likewise unspecified.

Her vigorous line drawings possess a robust, physical dynamism and illustrate the confident hand of the artist as she continually plays with depth and surface. Working on plywood, the whorls and patterns of its surface are intrinsic to each work, adding a sculptural dimension that further blurs the lines between surface and paint.

Teresa Lane graduated from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2012.

Teresa Lane 2015 CV P a g e |1

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TERESA HR LANE b. 1970, lives Auckland EDUCATION 2012

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 2014 2013

Men at Work, Milford Galleries Dunedin The Might of Meekness, Allpress Gallery, Auckland Behind Closed Doors, Cellblock @ ArtStation, Auckland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2012

New Works (Eliot Coates, Hannah Kidd, Krystie Wade, Johnny Turner, Teresa Lane), Milford Galleries Dunedin Cockamamie, Elam School of Fine Arts Graduate Show, University of Auckland

AWARDS 2014

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COLLECTIONS Private collections in New Zealand

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2015

McCall, Claire. ‘The Site Deconstructed’, Viva (NZ Herald), 25 February 2015, pp 22-23.

Teresa Lane: The Might of Meekness (C1-16) (2014)

Teresa Lane 2015 CV P a g e |2

Milford Galleries Dunedin

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