In a fascinating survey of evidence for the claim 'opposites attract', husband and wife artists Connie D.K. Lane and William Lane are strikingly polarized in their artistic voices, choice of medium and materials.  Perhaps there is also a strain of lively competition in there, as they are prolific and present solid bodies of work. 

Connie's work is organic, often appearing to be something you could almost pluck from the earth, but of such character and involved manipulation, the sort of earthy thing that would made you stop the car and investigate in the first place.  Tendrils, branches, fibers and pouches create structures that can only come from an artist deeply invested in the expression of the human-nature relationship.  For a mature artist who is beginning her career recently, completing her MFA at CSU Long Beach in 2011, we have the opportunity to see where training and experience really introduce their own pragmatic momentum.

William Lane, born in Kalamazoo and long time resident of California, produces work that is by contrast Hard Edge, working with pure color and firm, succinct line, and the relationship of color placed adjacently by the artist into a composition.  Directly calling to mind Josef Albers, he too pays homage to the square, but with the more liberal reins of color relationship of Frederick Hammersley or Frank Stella.  William is no imitator, he has been teaching art and making this kind of work since the 60's, and is a living witness, member and continuation of Hard Edge abstraction which was unveiled just as his own education as an artist was beginning.