Alone Now Is the Same as Alone Then is my first big effort in 2025. Space continues to be a lens through which I see so many universal themes. Spend some time in my galleries and other links to see what you think of my work: paintings, novels, poetry, playlists, photo series. Twenty-plus years of work. Listen here.
In a Modern World: Jadu Heart & Fontaines D.C. in Detroit /
Caught Fontaines D.C. wsg Jadu Heart at the Fillmore in Detroit! What a great show. In attendance: my lovely friends, Jeff and Bill, Mary and Dan. The evening started out at Ottava Via in Corktown. So much fun. Memories were made.
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From a Trio of Feet /
I’ve been thinking about this painting from 2006 a lot lately. I guess it’s the painting I hold all of my others up to. I’m a self-taught artist. I made this when I was learning a lot but didn’t know too much; when I was primarily focused on doing what I could do well. This is the painting that has continued to satisfy me over the years: the one that combined idea, image and other 2D aspects of painting in a way that has kept me thinking about it.
Patriotic Painting, 2006, mixed media on canvas, 40”x30”
Certain Fools & *The Wetland Poems /
Certain Fools & *The Wetland Poems is a collection of poems written in the 2010s. The collection weaves together a short series of meditations inspired by a wetland close to my home where I used to walk, and other poems which focus on my usual preoccupations of aging, identity, love, reality, art and more.
Available as a PDF.
Certain Fools & *The Wetland Poems
$8.99
Certain Fools & *The Wetland Poems is a collection of poems written in the 2010s. The collection weaves together a short series of meditations inspired by a wetland close to my home where I used to walk, and other poems which focus on my usual preoccupations of aging, identity, love, reality, art and more.
Pics from Build Your Own Collection 2025 at Buckham Gallery /
BYOC 2025 was a great event. I really enjoy bartending these events. Saw a lot of red dots on the walls before the night was over! Congrats to Michelle and the Collective and everyone else connected to Buckham Gallery in Downtown Flint, Michigan.
Also, very nice pick of my beloved. And I love the pick of me and Nic as we rep both of the awesome Buckham Gallery t-shirts!
The Two Paintings from Diners, Dives and Drive-Ins /
These are the two paintings that were in the Diner, Dives and Drive-Ins exhibition at Buckham Gallery in 2024.
Scouts, 2024, 36"x36"
$375.00
acrylic, gouache & colored pencil on canvas, 36”x36”, price includes shipping
Paintings to Be Included in Buckham Gallery's Annual Fundraiser: Build Your Own Collection /
Buckham Gallery’s annual fundraiser, Build Your Own Collection, is right around the corner. Only eight days away! There will be a lot of great affordable original artwork. Head to Buckham Gallery’s website, here, and get your tickets today. Join us on Friday, March 28th, and start building, or add to, your personal art collection. It’s a great way to support an amazing gallery that has been programming cutting edge, contemporary artwork in Downtown Flint for over forty years. I’ll be featuring the paintings posted below.
What If Our Minds the Worm
Mother & Son, 2024
No Escape (Intrusive Thoughts), 2024
Two Clips from My Two Novels /
Your Silent Face and Phil’s Siren Song are different books couched in the same setting with overlapping characters, however the narrators are focused on different issues. In the first clip, narrator of YSF, Stuart Page, relates a violent incident he witnessed before school when he was young. In the second clip, taken from PSS, narrator Phil McCormick captures a slice of the East Side, where he and Stuart grew up. Their stories mesh together but their situations are born out of different circumstances.
Phil's Siren Song (price includes shipping)
Sale Price:
$15.00
Original Price:
$18.00
My second novel, the follow up to your Silent Face. Price includes shipping.
Your Silent Face (price includes shipping)
Sale Price:
$12.00
Original Price:
$18.00
“A meandering but vigorous story about wayward youth and the necessity of art.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“The reader will likely be reminded of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity or possibly Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused; Lane’s tale is similarly episodic and digressive and more dedicated to re-creating the feeling of a time and place than telling a cohesive story. Even so, the sharp prose and inviting energy help it to succeed where similar novels fail. Readers will enjoy following Stuart’s thought processes, wherever they lead.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
What lies ahead that doesn’t suck? Summer break forces Stuart Page to return home and wrestle with his fraying ties to the East Side of Flint, his memory an archive of cassettes he would like to erase. His freshman year of college was lame. More early Cure than Spandau Ballet, he might be overheard saying. More Gary Numan than Falco.
Flustered by visits from a stoic viking, fueled by an endless supply of beer, Stu picks apart an obsession with the lead singer of Joy Division and chugs the sour dregs of insecurity as he drunkenly veers through Flint’s blue collar fight culture, summer hook ups, the aftereffects of Old School Catholicism and Reaganomics in Your Silent Face.
Key words; fiction, coming of age, 80s music, New Wave, Gen X, Rust Belt, Native American, graffiti, urban poetry
