James Cohan

See work by Angela Lane in A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray, on view through May 9, 2026, at James Cohan’s 52 Walker Street location.

Angela Lane (b. 1974, United Kingdom; lives and works in Waikanae, New Zealand) paints postcard-size landscapes, aligning herself with the art historical tradition of depicting environments of celestial and mysterious phenomena. Robust pastoral beauty, bathed in soft light or cloaked in fog, is offset by dramatic eclipses, comets, or twin suns. These phenomena suggest a range of mirages and visions open to broad interpretation, which in Lane’s words “leave the events in the paintings to be their own messengers.”

The intimate scale of Lane’s oil on wood paintings compels viewers to draw quite near in order to see them properly, giving the sense that these visions are your very own. Despite this commitment to the diminutive, the artist achieves a magnetic sense of drama and verdant solitude. Occasionally, certain phenomena are repeated either in title or through shared compositional elements, suggesting passage of time, or varying moods and emotional states.

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📸: ANGELA LANE, Spectral Occurrence, 2025, oil on birch plywood, 9 x 6 in, 22.9 x 15.2 cm. © Angela Lane 2026. Courtesy the artist and Anat Egbi, Los Angeles/ New York. Photo by Phoebe d'Heurle.