Diane Carr is an artist known for her relief sculptures incorporating natural materials and forms.[1][2]
Career edit
Associated with the Cass Corridor artists working in Detroit in the 1960s through 1980s, her works in the 1970s-1980s are small scale reliefs, rectangular in format, and constructed of layers of organic materials. Later works (1990s onward) are notable for their increased size and curvilinear forms.[2] In 1977, she was a Guest Lecturer for Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The next year, Carr worked as a Painting Coordinator for Ox Bow Summer Workshop in Saugatuck, Michigan. The following year she was a Visiting Artist at Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Indiana.[citation needed]
In 1985 Carr was a recipeint of the Creative Artist Award given by the Michigan Council for the Arts[3]. Her work is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ Martineau, Janet. (2008, November 14). Diane Carr's "spiral gestures" feature Lake Michigan sand and her love of nature. The Saginaw News. http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/saginaw/index.ssf/2008/11/diane_carrs_spiral_gestures_fe.html
- ^ a b Abt, Jeffrey. (2001). Up from the streets: Detroit art from the Duffy warehouse collection. Detroit: Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University. p. 60. ISBN 0971097313.
- ^ "Diane Carr Biography – Diane Carr on artnet".