Untitled, from the Olive Press Print Portfolio: 1991–1992

Lois Lane’s prints are based on her drawings that repro-duce a collage of images she gathered from magazines. She describes her choice in imagery as arbitrary, stating: “I don’t know how clearly I can say why I choose a specific image. They seem to have a language and a reason which is impelling [sic] to me. I often feel like I am translating.” While Lane may not have a particular rationale for choosing images, the motifs represented in Untitled—clothing, flowers, and a hummingbird—all seem to relate to female stereotypes. By way of its piecemeal assemblage, this print seems to waver back and forth between figurative representation and abstraction, never fully resolving itself in accordance with one approach or the other.