Diane Pierce

Diane Pierce
South San Francisco, California, USA

STATEMENT

The quick capture of an image and the passage of time over its manipulation is combined in my series “The Accidental Photograph”. With the photographic image, a Polaroid print as the foundation, slowly over days, weeks, or months I have a dialog with a variety of casually collected items. The techniques and materials of collage become the possibilities for what I see in the final piece. The images ask to be deciphered by a viewer’s own internal logic and are not suggestive of any one particular notion of mine. It
seems the nature of collage to be in flux through process and as likely through interpretations over time.

BIO

Diane Pierce has used the medium of photography as her most expressive tool. She studied Painting &
Drawing and Photography as an undergraduate student at San Francisco State University and did graduate studies in Photography at Mills College, Oakland, California. She has a thorough background in
traditional and digital skills as well as alternative photographic processes. Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Mills College Art Museum; and has quietly exhibited over the past thirty years. Her book, Pencil Paper Scissors Light, was released by the exquisite bookmakers of Datz Press, Seoul, South Korea in late 2020.

ARTIST CONTACT

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