Danny Lane was born on 27 January 1955 and is an American artist, best known for his glass and steel sculpture.
19 Facts About Danny Lane
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Danny Lane came to attention in the 1980s through his art furniture.
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Danny Lane moved into large-scale public sculpture in the 1990s, being responsible in 2006 for Borealis, believed to be the largest glass sculpture in the world.
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Danny Lane was born in 1955 in Urbana, Illinois, in the United States.
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Danny Lane moved to the United Kingdom in 1975 to begin an apprenticeship with stained-glass artist Patrick Reyntiens at Burleighfield House in Buckinghamshire, and then Ruskin School, Oxford, before attending a foundation course in Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
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In 1981, Danny Lane established his first studio in London's East End, Hackney, where time spent in local workshops gave him a respect for traditional craftsmanship, and saw him begin to accumulate stacks of metal, glass and wood with which to experiment.
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Danny Lane then began developing objects using industrial float glass, and by the mid-1980s he was experimenting with assemblage, uniting found materials in his furniture.
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In 1984 Danny Lane exhibited abroad for the first time at the International Furniture Fair in Milan, making folding glass screens with sandblasted and acid etched drawings.
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From 1989 to 1990, Danny Lane travelled to Tokyo and Osaka in Japan to produce new commissions.
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In 2003, Danny Lane made Parting of the Waves for Canary Wharf Plc, East London.
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In May 2006, Danny Lane produced Borealis for the General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit, USA, which is believed to be the largest glass sculpture in existence.
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In 2010, Danny Lane produced Threshold, commissioned by the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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When first working with metal, Danny Lane did not have his own forge or know how to weld, yet his interest in this process resulted in several pieces early in his career.
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Danny Lane developed methods of heating steel, making it possible to bend metal freely into what he calls "steel drawings," which are produced to function much like industrial-scale automatic drawings.
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Danny Lane has experimented with new methods in recent years, producing new non-commissioned sculptural works.
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Danny Lane has developed a "post-tensioning" method that exploits the strength of glass under compression, a process he refers to as 'shish-kebabing'.
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Danny Lane has created glass screens, in which he draws images on glass through acid-etching.
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Danny Lane has produced thousands of drawings, which provide the initial concepts for many of his sculptures.
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Danny Lane's father, M Daniel Lane, was a scientist and his mother was an art historian and environmentalist.