ARTISTI INTERNAZIONALI NELL’ ARTE CONTEMPORANEA- EDIZIONE 2017
HOLLAND DIANE
Diane Holland is resident of San Francisco, CA, USA and is a graduate of San Francisco State University. She has been featured in various foreign exhibitions as well as many exhibitions throughout the United States. Her work carries a sense of movement, space and is endowed with poetic spirituality and artistic experience.” From Ms. Holland’ s world of brilliant colors, the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea, New York states that:“ Diane Holland’ s newest works shift to an earth-tone color palette and rich textures that remarkably transform her abstract expressionist paintings into rusticated portals that initiate lasting narratives. Her titles serve as keys to unlocking the buried mysteries in order to push beyond abstract expressionism into a guided meaning filed with brilliantly fantastical intrigue and loose in its absolute implications, leaving room for subjective interpretation. Ms. Holland’ s intended narrative includes wooden doors and boarded windows, inventively prescribing surreal intrigue to ordinary objects through her intentional choice to keep these gateways barricaded from the outside world. As viewers, her paintings haunt our imagination as we assume the roles as actors in her masterful story, becoming the ones either trying to enter these abandoned homes-or even more thrilling-the characters trapped within the paintings’ imagined spaces. Looming before our eyes, Ms. Holland’ s brilliantly textured thresholds interact and create compelling stories that continue to thrill viewers’ wildest imaginations.” Diane Holland has shown a wide variety of styles, with canvases of defined lines and primary colors creating strong and contrasting hues, to free form abstracts, and rich rustic textures- all of which provide the viewer with a visual abundance to contemplate and enjoy.
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Dynamism, and vitality achieved through dark, bold lines that twirl, spin and gyrate around one another in an energetic dance of gallant colors. Ms. Holland creates non-representational art that the viewer can bring his or her own interpretation to. An innovative member of the world of abstraction, Ms. Holland creates works that are inspirational and uplifting. Antonio Malmo, international art critic and expert in modern art has stated of her work:“ A composite of geometrical figures between mysterious silences and infinite shapes. Diane Holland has energy, imagination, vitality, creative power and expressive strength in the unity of pure emotion, sincerely painted onto the canvas. Her pictorial world develops in a heterogeneous search of forms, colors and
Painting for exibition- Tecnica mista
Antologia di Pittori- Scultori- Poeti- Scrittori a cura dell’ Associazione Culturale“ Amici del Quadrato” Milano
Diane Holland
86- Homestead Street San Francisco, California, 94114 * USA dianeholland2002 @ msn. com
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