Opening Reception: Lane Banks- Geometric Paintings

OPENING RECEPTION

A reception for the exhibtion, Lane Banks: Geometric Paintings, will be held on Sunday, September 15 from 2-4 PM.  It is open to the public and free to attend. During this same timeframe a bonus Family Funday will be held where families can create art inspired by the exhibitions on view at Irving Arts Center .  These include The Art of Marty & Richard Ray (on view in the Carpenter Lobby Gallery from Sept 14, 2024 – Jan 25, 2025) and The 24th Annual Art Connection Members’ Show (on view in the Main and Focus Galleries from Sept 14- November 9, 2024).

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Lane Banks: Geometric Paintings, on view in the Dupree Lobby Gallery at Irving Arts Center from Sept 14, 2024 through November 30, 2024 features the work of Dallas-based artist Lane Bank. His work is insistently abstract, mathematical, conceptual in origin and geometric in appearance.  It does not derive from perception, but is entirely constructed from numerical rhythms and proportions. It is concept made visible, a thought construction.

The industrial color palette is limited to black, various grays, white, and metallics, further distancing the work from observed colors in natural forms.  Banks works with orthogonals (horizontals and verticals) only, so that the elements of the painting are always parallel to the frame; there are no curves or diagonals. His compositions are non-hierarchial; every part of the work has equal importance.

ARTIST BIO

Lane Banks lives and works in Dallas where he makes geometric, abstract paintings. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio from Louisiana Tech University. His works have been exhibited at the Geometric MADI Museum in Dallas, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, William Campbell Gallery, 500X, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College, Richland College, El Centro College, Latino Cultural Center, Arlington Museum of Art, Beeville Art Museum and Mulcahy Modern. His work has been commissioned for permanent public art installations at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field Airport, and for the corporate collection of Neiman Marcus at North Park Mall and the Shops at Willow Bend, and by private collectors.

Banks shares his passion for art teaching courses in the history of modern art for the Continuing and Professional Education Department (CAPE) at Southern Methodist University, leading courses on the main campus, the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Meadows Museum, Amon Carter Museum and Kimbell Art Museum.

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