Diane Englander

Born in New York / Works in New York

BIO

Diane is a native New Yorker who had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to nonprofits. She then studied at the Art Students League, and has had solo exhibits including at St. Peter’s Church in NYC, at U. Mass. Amherst, and at the University of Connecticut, and been in group shows across the US. She had an artist’s grant to the Vermont Studio Center and won the Allied Artists of America award at the Butler Institute of American Art. Her work is in private and institutional collections in the US, Italy and France.

“Diane Englander approaches her work as a poet, in the most ancient sense of the word: she is resolutely a “maker.” Endlessly inventive, Englander’s work does not hide the history or the pleasure of its making, from a curiosity about materials (a mix of scavenged, reused, and new) to a playful series of experiments with color and form, line and texture, volume and composition. The viewer can feel the mind behind the work constantly asking itself, “And what would happen if . . ..” The resulting pieces are like poems: elegant, spare, at once unexpected and inevitable.”