Esoteric Survey

Doyle Lane : Master of Clay at the Huntington Art Museum, Library and Botanical Gardens. This is the first major museum retrospective on Doyle Lane (1923–2002). It's long overdue and certainly won't be the last. The exhibition was curated by Lauren Cross, who also wrote the accompanying book , which you need to get.  Most people know Lane's weed pots and maybe even the clay paintings, but this exhibition includes the whole breadth of his work. He made everything from ashtrays, lamps, bowls, beads, and even metalwork.  The book adds so much to what we know about Doyle. Lauren writes about Lane's childhood and time before moving to California, which hasn't been explored before. There is so much firsthand information about Lane, the person, from friends, relatives and in his own voice. The interviews are some of my favorite parts of the book. Reading transcripts of Doyle going into depth about his glaze process is next-level craft geek stuff. This post is more of an o...

  Doyle Lane: Weed Pots , an exhibition curated by Ricky Swallow at David Kordansky Gallery in New York. Featuring nearly 100 works, Doyle Lane: Weed Pots is an expanded iteration of a related exhibition of sixty pots that took place at David Kordansky Gallery’s Los Angeles location in 2020.  I'm so fortunate to have been able to make the trip to New York to see this one in person. Ricky is so deep into Lane--not only as a longtime collector but also as the author of the book,  Doyle Lane : Weed Pots . He put together an amazing selection of pots that nobody else could have accomplished. The examples of glazes and forms are most certainly the best selection of weed pots that have ever been assembled. They really show what an amazing artist Doyle was--and this is just the weed pots! The ephemera case.  Doyle's business card and a keychain by him. OBJECTS : USA represented Here come the pots! One of my favorites in the show. This one came from the estate of a promine...