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ARTIS LANE (1927 - )
Warrior Emerging
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Cast bronze, ceramic shell and resin, 1990. 432x216x152 mm; 17x8
1
/
2
x6 inches (not including the
painted 6-inch high steel base).
Provenance: collection of the artist.
Exhibited:
AWoman’s Journey: the Life andWork of Artis Lane
, California African-American Museum,
Los Angeles, September 27, 2007 - March 2, 2008.
Warrior Emerging
incorporates many of the themes found in Artis Lane’s works and displays her
innovative approach to her medium. It is a representation of both an athletic torso—with the pose
of a Renaissance figure and the muscularity and helmet of a football player—and a dynamic human
spirit. In these experimental sculptures, the emergence of the bronze figures from their ceramic
molds symbolizes man’s emergence from material thinking into spiritual consciousness. As the
bronze emerges from casting, Lane has left fragments of the ceramic mold bonded to the bronze
that is sealed with resin. This bronze figure is only the third sculpture by Artis Lane to come to
auction and epitomizes her interest in sculptural figurative form.
Born in Ontario, Canada,Artis Lane studied at the Art College in Toronto, the Cranbrook Academy
of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI and the University of California in Los Angeles. In 1984, the artist had
one of her first solo exhibitions at the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles.Today,Artis Lane is celebrated
for her portraits in both sculpture and painting of famous and historic figures. She has been
commissioned to paint portraits of such luminaries as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Michael
Jordan, President Kennedy (for Frank Sinatra), Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks and Oprah Winfrey. In
2007, the California African American Museum of Los Angeles mounted a major retrospective
exhibition of her work. In 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled Lane’s bronze bust of Sojourner
Truth, which became the first sculpture of a black woman installed in the U.S. Capitol.
[20,000/30,000]