American artist (born 1967)
Lane Jay Twitchell |
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| Born | November 17, 1967 (54 years old)
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| Education | University of Utah, School of Visual Arts New York City |
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| Known for | Cut paper and acrylic polymers on plexi panel |
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| Website | Official website |
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Lane Jay Twitchell (born 1967) is a mixed media artist of visionary images. His intricately patterned abstract and semi-representational mixed media works are unmistakable. Twitchell mainly works in paint media, paper cutting, and collage. Cherie K. Woodworth wrote, “What Twitchell does is reinterpret the Western landscape— landscape as kaleidoscope, as a quilt made of paper, as a wide open world refracted in a giant, man-made snowflake. It is the landscape and the heart of the West—its natural grandeur, its history, its modern-day suburbs. Twitchell’s landscape is a labyrinthine desert rose blossoming in the midst of Manhattan.”
Biography
Lane Jay Twitchell was born on November 17, 1967, in Murray, UT. He was raised in the cities of Ogden and Salt Lake City, UT as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He attended the University of Utah on a special departmental scholarship in 1986, and graduated with his BFA in 1993. He then went on to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he graduated with his MFA in 1995.[1] He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and also works as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[2]
Twitchell uses paper craft to create visually interesting, kaleidoscope patterns inspired by American middle-class consumerism, urban and suburban landscapes and architecture, and, as he puts it, “American Religious Expansionism,” stemming from his faith journey in and out of the LDS Church. Once in New York City, he recognized the novelty his Mormon upbringing would represent to the New York art scene, and began to establish a voice within the downtown art community.
Career
Twitchell was recognized early in his career with a solo exhibition at New York's legendary gallery, Deitch Projects (1999). Twitchell has received positive reviews in well-known publications including The New York Times, The New York Observer, The Washington Post, and Art in America. In 1998, Lane Twitchell was the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant. He is also a two-time winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Drawing (1999) and Craft (2003). In 1998, he participated in the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) P.S. 1 National Studio Program.[3] He completed his artist residency at Wier Farm Trust in Wilton, CT. He has completed two major New York City public art commissions, and two national commissions with the Chicago Public Art Program and the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent Art Program.[4][5] His work is held in depth at The Goetz Collection in Munich, Germany, as well as The Museum of Modern Art,[6] significant private collections internationally, the Springville Museum of Art (Springville, UT), and The Church Museum of History and Art (Salt Lake City, UT). View his process and work on Instagram @lanetwitchell.
