Lois Lane (American 1948) is known for work that draws on commercial imagery, feminine archetypes, and narrative fragments from mid-20th-century visual culture. She earned a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA from Yale University, and emerged in New York in the 1970s with early exhibitions at Artists Space and Willard Gallery. Her paintings often recontextualize motifs such as dresses, shoes, interiors, and staged environments, drawn from advertising and popular media. Associated with the New Image Painting movement, Lane’s work blends figuration with abstraction, using layered compositions and a restrained palette to explore themes of identity, desire, and cultural construction.