58 KELLY McLANE

Untitled (Floating Ape), 2000,
graphite on paper, 30" x 22"

Art critic Christopher Miles wrote “…the strangest thing about Kelly McLane’s subtle, seductive, at times disturbing imagery is the realization that her visual conjurings are fictions based in fact…she combines carefully chosen bits of comedy, irony, and tragedy with odd doses of off-road reality.” This later work of McLane’s is “in the tradition of the landscape painters of the 18th and 19th centuries, using a contemporary vocabulary of abstraction… Just as Romanticism and Neoclassicism produced a culturally specific definition of the natural world, McLane has expanded the dialogue by addressing 21st century anxieties of the clash of human culture and (in)human nature” (Angles Gallery). McLane has exhibited internationally and holds an MFA from University of California, Davis and is represented by Angles Gallery, where she will have her next solo show this year.

courtesy of the artist and
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
value $3,000–3,400