Ensouled Skies

Sculpture

New Museum Los Gatos

Name/Title

Ensouled Skies

Entry/Object ID

2025.10.1

Description

A mixed media sculpture, consisting of an acrylic painting surrounded by an intricately carved wooden frame. The painting features geese flying over trees, with a brilliant red, orange, and yellow sunset behind them. Surrounding the painting is a carved wooden frame, with linear and geometric motifs, as well as a vine and fruit motif at the left and right sides, and a sun at the top above the painting. Attached to the very top of the frame are ten carved wooden geese in various stages of flight.

Type of Sculpture

Free Standing

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on Panel, Wood

Collection

Art Collection

Cataloged By

[email protected]

Acquisition

Accession

2025.10

Source or Donor

Katie Gibson

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Katie & Drew Gibson

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Holly Lane

Role

Sculptor

Date made

2021

Time Period

21st Century

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature, Date

Location

Lower right of painting

Transcription

HOLLY LANE 2021

Language

English

Material/Technique

Painted

Type

Label

Location

Back of sculpture

Transcription

"ENSOULED SKIES" 2021 HOLLY LANE

Language

English

Material/Technique

Pen

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Carving

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

14-1/2 in

Width

16-1/2 in

Depth

4-1/2 in

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Exhibitions

Holly Lane - Not Enough Time to Love the World

New Additions

Interpretative Labels

Label

California artist Holly Lane began considering the relationship of frame to picture when she was an undergraduate. In her words, “the frame was a demarcation that indicated that all that was within was art; the frame itself and all that was outside the frame, was not art. A good frame was to be inconspicuous.” Lane has discarded this notion in a major way, and brought her ideas, paintings, and her self-taught wood carving skills together to envision, and then construct, a beautiful symbiosis of the two. Her singularly imaginative paintings, encased in her own ornamental, hand-crafted wood frames have a timeless quality, backed up by her grounding in philosophy, myth, the history of art, and her impeccable technique. Lane earned a BFA with Great Distinction and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, California. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States over the past thirty years.