Livin la Vida Loca (2023) Colagens por Diane Leon

DIANE LEON was born on December 17, 1945 in New York City.  Her formal art studies began at The Art Students League, NYC, from 1974-78. She also has studied at the Pratt Graphics Center, The Printmaking Workshop, The National Academy of Design, NYC and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, advanced color viscosity printmaking classes, NYU. In 1976, Diane spent the summer at a painting school in the Spanish Pyrenees in the small mountain town of Berdun in Huesca, Spain in the Aragon region. She has also traveled to France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece and Morocco.

Education:

Diane has a B.A. from the New York University, School of Professional Studies in art history with honors and M.A. from NYU, Graduate School of Arts and Science, John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought. Since completion of her master’s degree in 1995, Diane teaches spring semester at NYU, School of Professional Studies as an adjunct associate professor of arts in the Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies. Her courses are: The Fundamentals of Painting and Design and Collage/Mixed Media in the Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies. 

Abstraction allows me to be spontaneous. The handling of acrylic paint on canvas, or paper is influenced by nature’s powerful energy and a sense of place. Growing up in NYC and later on traveling in Europe has influenced how I use color and apply paint with a palette knife.

 I work with no preconceived idea. How the completed work reveals itself develops with many revisions. As I work the p

• Nacionalidade: ESTADOS UNIDOS
• Data de nascimento : 1945
• Domínios artísticos: Obras de artistas profissionais,
• Grupos: Artista profissional Artistas Contemporâneos Americanos