{"id":14461,"date":"2025-12-12T17:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=14461"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:33:03","slug":"bernie-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/bernie-diaz","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Case of the Social Studies<\/em>
8″x9″; paper, paint, vinyl, found images, staples, tape, ink; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bernie Diaz<\/strong>
Austin, Texas, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I manipulate words and images through a process of revision, omission, and embellishment. This process migrates from paper to pixels and back to paper. Most images and words belong to me, but some are discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scavenging, cutting, layering, overlapping, rearranging, decorating, and merging entail a process of making formal sense of seemingly unrelated parts. In turn, this results in a lineage of hybrid, glyph-like assemblages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike glyphs, these new arrangements don\u2019t need to be deciphered. These aren’t puzzles or riddles. Instead, these compositions seek to redirect, to obscure the origin of its parts; to achieve a sense of completeness from a state of fragmentation. The work is related in several ways to personal and universal notions of identity and identity formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernie Diaz is an artist and educator residing in Austin, Texas. Diaz earned his MFA from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. A queer, first-generation Mexican-American, Diaz was born in the Midwest and spent his formative years in Eagle Pass, a southwest Texas town on the border with Mexico. Diaz\u2019s work explores notions of identity, hybridity, and fragmentation, and currently works around three conceptual frameworks: embellishment, omission, and revision. An essay and selection of Diaz’s work was published in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies<\/em> at UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at Austin Community College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Medicina<\/em>
10″x8″; paper, paint, vinyl, found images, staples, ink, glitter; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dawn of the Trickster<\/em>
8″x6″; paper, paint, ink, found images; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Multiverse Twitched<\/em>
8″x6″; paper, paint, ink, found images, graphite, rhinestones; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Midnight Corridor<\/em>
7″x5″; paper, paint, tape, ink, rhinestones, found images; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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