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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A long-time resident of Los Angeles, Doyle Lane is known for pottery,
beadwork and glazed clay paintings in abstract expressionist style that
resembled "exploding orbs". He did these signature pieces between
the 1960s and the 1980s using a method of painting glaze onto flattened
circular pieces of clay. Then he fired them at high temperatures
in a way that created "textures approximating color-field explosions on
painted canvas. The glazes separated from the surfaces, thereby
creating beaded and streaking textures and effects."
He also used the same approach with earthenware pots, where he
experimented with the merging of color glazes. The result was
pottery that gave the impression of natural formations such as running
water, rocks with cracks and fissures, and blowing grasses.
Making beads became a happy diversion for Lane from the labor intensive
work with large clay pieces, and many of his beads, resembling small
precious stones, he used for jewelry.
Doyle Lane was born in New Orleans, and studied at Los Angeles City
College and the University of Southern California. One of his
early employers was the L. H. Butcher Company for whom he was a studio
craftsman and glaze technician.
Source:
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, "Doyle Lane", St. James Guide to Black Artists, pp. 313-314
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