DIANE ENGLANDER

In all my work, I am looking for the same place: the spot between harmony and discord that gives energy as it also provides refuge. I get a lot of my energy from materials, which can entice me out of nowhere into new lines of work, such as the sculpture made of scrap wood that I began in 2013, and then returned to in 2018. At any given moment in my studio, I am using papier maché in one place, putting gesso over an old canvas nearby, and clamping bits of wood together wherever I can find room.

Taupe with Red and White add to drawer
Blue Form on Varied Ground III add to drawer
Black with Photo on Taupe add to drawer
Form on Red Wood with Gouges add to drawer
Pale Form on Blue Wood add to drawer
Small Square Grouping I add to drawer
Three Squares Blue and White add to drawer
Green and Blue Loop II add to drawer
Red Form and Lines on Taupe add to drawer

A native New Yorker who works in NYC and in Southampton, NY, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm.

In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time, and to study with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York. She has had solo exhibits including those at the University of Connecticut, U. Mass. Amherst, and the Living Room Gallery at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan, as well as pieces in group shows in New York City, elsewhere in the US, and in Italy. Most recently she was part of the exhibit Found Object at ODETTA in Bushwick.