Cal Lane: Welding-made lace by Jacqueline Ruyak
Cal Lane was raised in Vancouver Island, the British Columbia, Canada. She graduated as a painter. However, she believed the course she had studied limits her abilities. Later, she studied to become a welder. She worked at construction sites and at ships. After that, she came back to the art school to study sculpture. She learnt about new materials, but she kept returning to steel. „For me, steel is not only a material, it is a metaphor for our extreme “macho”, cold, hard, strong, dirty and industrial world.“ Once she made a joke and arranged lace table cloths on an anvil, ribbon saw and driller. Contrast produced by a soft white lace on a dirty, cold steel machine was an unexpectedly nice visual experience. Then, she has started to make a collection of industrial cloths from two-cm thick steel. The art combining male, industrial and functional side and female, soft, domestic and decorative side has been created. Lane moved to live and work in New York in 2002.
Further articles magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2010:
- Research and documentation in the ÚĽUV by Zora Valentová
- To create for beauty and use by Nora Čechmánková
- Embroidery-making cooperative in Skalica by Mária Zajíčková
- Helena Šišková and the pictures that speak by Nora Čechmánková
- Ladislav Stromko by Peter Laučík
- Following the track of a copybook by Alena Rybáriková
- You cannot find Sloverige in vocabularies by Eva Riečanská
- Lost in time opens to the world by Silvia Rajčanová
- Roads... by Adriena Pekárová
- Toy variations by Peter Šugár
- Cal Lane: Welding-made lace by Jacqueline Ruyak
- Munich exhibitions Talente and Schmuck 2010 by Mária Nepšinská
- At the moment – The 6th ceramic biennial in the town of Kapfenberg by Štefan Oriško
- The Slovak tinkers in the Czech visual art by Monika Váleková
