Jane Lackey’s art has long engaged cross-disciplinary intersections of materials and process as active thinking. In her studio practice, conceptual ideas are slowly traced, entwined and materialized in drawings, sculpture and installations. Illusive aspects of movement, communication, and our physical selves surface in a narrative of mapped systems. Intimate and hand held or large scale and ambulatory, these works evoke self-reflection, scrutiny and comparison. Her artwork has recently been exhibited at the Loranger Art and Architecture Center, Detroit; The Wellcome Trust, London; I Space, Chicago; Ashville Art Museum, North Carolina; Beach Museum, Manhattan, KS; Exit Art, and Tang Museum, NY. She has received grants from Artist Trust, Seattle, the NEA and the Illinois Arts Council. She has been awarded residency/fellowships from the LaNapoule Foundation and Camargo Foundation in France and recently received the 2011 Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship sponsored by the Japan-US Friendship Commission and NEA. Her work is included in numerous private, public and museum collections. Lackey earned her BFA from California College of the Arts and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Head of the Fiber Department at first Kansas City Art Institute and then Cranbrook Academy of Art, she is currently an independent artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.