Diana Jensen
Diana Jensen · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Oil Paint
- Based in
- Brooklyn
- Practice
- Installation, Mixed Media, Painting
Currently based in Brooklyn, Diana Jensen makes installations that reference found vernacular photographs from the 1970s to the present day. Her art-making focus is on documenting both the emotional connection and cultur… Full biography
Biography
Currently based in Brooklyn, Diana Jensen makes installations that reference found vernacular photographs from the 1970s to the present day. Her art-making focus is on documenting both the emotional connection and cultural impact of photo collecting.
After completing an MFA at Northwestern U, she attended Skowhegan.
Jensen's recent solo exhibit "A Decade in Dumbo: 4 Installations" was featured at Chashama Space @ One Brooklyn Bridge Park. Her paintings have been exhibited in such venues as The Visual Art's Center of New Jersey; Temporare Kunsthalle Friedrichshain, Berlin; Heskin Contemporary, NYC; Korjaamo Galleria, Helsinki, Finland; SafeTGallery, Brooklyn; White Columns, NYC; Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago; The Newark Museum; The Islip Art Museum; and the Galleria Belykis Ayon en el Centro de Artes Experimentales in Havana, Cuba.
Artist statement
For the last decade, I have been making paintings and painting installations derived from found photographs and abandoned photo albums. I am interested in both the emotional connection and cultural impact of photo collecting. It is not my goal to copy the photos I find verbatim--but to impart, in artwork, my idea of what these discarded physical objects/artifacts represented to the original owner.
