Diane Carr received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her BA from American University in Washington, DC. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the CUE Art Foundation, Dumbo Arts Center, NurtureArt, Wave Hill, PS122, Allegra LaViola Gallery, Gallery Satori, and the Arsenal Gallery in New York, and nationally at venues including Arthouse Texas, Austin, Texas; SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio; the Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland; Second Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York. She has been the recipient of an Artists Space Independent Project Grant and the MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

My paintings of natural and imagined spaces are interpretations of known environments. By combining found images, film stills and my own photographs, I create works that reference our surroundings. Specifically, the pieces depict dense forests, icy seascapes and verdant woodlands along with the atmospheric conditions of these sites. The pieces compare a thinning boundary between imagined and real realms to the shrinking natural world. Through heightened color and shifts in scale, I am interested in emphasizing the material of paint. Similarly, in relying on gesture and alternating thin washes with layered areas, I am concerned with creating spaces within the environments that dissolve into abstraction. 

Additional work can be viewed at www.dianecarr.net