Lane Jay Twitchell (born 1967) is a mixed media artist . Twitchell mainly works in paint media, paper cutting, and collage.
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. 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.
Career Twitchell had his first solo exhibition at New York's gallery, Deitch Projects (1999). Twitchell has received positive reviews in 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. He completed his artist residency at Wier Farm Trust in Wilton, CT. He has completed two New York City public art commissions, and two commissions with the Chicago Public Art Program and the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent Art Program. His work is held at The Museum of Modern Art, the Springville Museum of Art (Springville, UT), and The Church Museum of History and Art (Salt Lake City, UT). 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.”
Works Art Bank Program, Washington D.C The Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH Neuberger Berman Collection, New York City, New York Day Zoo, U.S. Department of State Embassy Leap With Me, Roebling Hall, New York, New York A-Frame (Green), MoMA, New York, New York (1998) Gas-n-Go (Red), MoMA, New York, New York (1998)
References
Further reading Clements, Derrick (2017). "New Provo Exhibit Reveals, Obscures biography of Artist" Provo Daily Herald Christensen, Ruth (2017). "A Refreshing Inversion" Artists of Utah Cotter, Holland; Rosenberg, Karen (2008). "ART IN REVIEW" The New York Times
Grundberg, Andy (2005) "'Loop': What Goes Around..." Washington Post
Evenson, Brian (2004). "In Conversation: Lane Twitchell" Brooklyn Rail Dawson, Jessica (2004). "Man on a Mission: The Early Lane Twitchell" Washington Post Glueck, Grace (2002). "Art In Review; Lane Twitchell -- 'Private Property'" The New York Times Woodworth, Cherie K. "Landscape and the American West: The Sacred, the Sublime, and the Suburbs--The Art of Lane Twitchell." Sunstone, October 2002: 34–39. Van Doren Waxter (2002). "Lane Twitchell" Press Release; Van Doren Waxter Gallery Kuang, Cliff (2009). "Everything but the paper cut: Eye-popping ways artists use paper." Fast Company blog, 20 October 2009.