Tony Lane
Night for Day
10 November — 5 December
Tony Lane’s work draws inspiration from art history through the ages: Italian frescoes, Renaissance landscapes, 17th-century Spanish still-life, and the New Zealand landscape from William Fox and Charles Heaphy to Colin McCahon.
Early NZ painters drew on the ideas of 17th-century French painter Claude Lorraine, using overlapping planes, a golden glow, distant blue horizons, and darker foregrounds often featuring trees. Lane explores these themes and concepts: the landscape as divine, nature as omnipresent, how the light both directs and affects us.
His hand-gilded gold frames strike a delicate balance between ritual and revelation. His is the contemplative world, the strings of dotted lines create a pathway from one realm to the next, day, evening, night.
Tony Lane has held more than 100 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout New Zealand, and exhibited in galleries in New York, London, Barcelona, Seville, and Gstaad. His work is represented in major public collections in New Zealand at: Auckland Art Gallery, Dowse Art Museum, Dunedin Art Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Te Papa Tongarewa.
Work featured: Night for Day
221 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
Open Tue-Sat
11am-5pm
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021 213 4449
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