Doyle Lane is known forwork that ranges from beaded necklaces to delicate vases he called weed pots to ceramic sculptures to clay paintings, and large scale wall mosaics.The Orange Wall, commissioned for 301 E. Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena at 18 feet long is one of his largest mosaics. This piece is now installed at The Huntington Garden and Library in San Marion, CA.
While at the University of Southern California he studied with Vivika Heino and Carlton Ball.
Lane?s clay paintings were often round with areas defined by color fields or they were composed of pieces that had been cut from the whole, glazed and then reassembled. Typically the clay paintings are mounted on a wooden background. Lane's goal with the paintings was to create a painting that could be outside.
A glaze specialist, in the Glen Lukens tradition, he developed glazes to enhance his small simple forms. They often crawl, bubble, crack and melt off the lower edges of his pieces.
As a Black man, Doyle Lane, struggled to sell his work in the mid 20th century.
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