| Biography Diana McClure, originally from Boston, currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since graduating from Columbia University and The New School for Social Research where she received a Diamond Fellowship and her Masters degree, Diana has exhibited work in galleries throughout the United States. Her photographs have been shown at the Philadelphia African American Museum, published in the Los Angeles Times, and were included in the juried Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future project. Diana’s writing has been published in such magazines as Art Asia Pacific, STUDIO: The Studio Museum in Harlem, and many others. Music, metaphysics and intuitive action drive her process and approach to artistic production. Other interests relevant to her art practice include the liberation of thought, spiritual agency, women, beauty, and urban culture. Selected Special Projects 2007 - 2008 www.cultureserve.net - Web Installation. An art and culture news website dedicated to diverse global voices and projects in art and culture. Cultureserve gathers, analyzes and disseminates information on art, culture and individuals, in an effort to create intersections and pathways across race, gender, class, age, nationality and, “high” and “low” art. Cultureserve's placement of diverse subject matter in a shared space of dialogue disrupts notions of identity organized around the body and guides the gaze to go within to penetrate the skin in search of the spirit. As a result, art + culture become a platform to explore the human condition in the 21st century while simultaneously re-defining the “value” of art in contemporary culture. view project Cyberspace/New York 2006 Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine – Salt & Light (Matthew 5:14-16). A Poetry/prose piece written in response to the photographs of Adia Millett. A collaborative improvisation project between writers and visual artists that appears in Studio regularly. New York 2003 – 2004 Envisioning the Future - Judy Chicago project - Jury selected participant - Digital Media group. A 6 month interdisciplinary project involving arts and education in an effort to imagine, create, and exhibit diverse images of the future. Diana created a DVD called Future Prayers. Through the use of motion graphics, a visual montage of her photographs and e-mails collected from over 40 people via the internet, explored the movement of energy through the mind and its effect on personal and communal change. The e-mails contained thoughts, prayers and meditations on and for the future. The speed of the transition from image to text was designed to generate a range of responses - serenity, desire, frustration - dependent on the viewer’s relationship to his/her inner being and their desire for cognitive understanding. Pomona Pimp Metaphysics: Counter Intelligence (PM:CI) - Web Installation. Interviews with “urban culture brokers” on manipulation & exploitation in American culture from an entertainment, arts, and hip-hop perspective. Designed to infiltrate the entertainment news and gossip space of www.thecrusade.net, the 1-year web installation culminated in an on-line photo/text work for www.evilmonito.com. The project also explored stream of consciousness responses to the term "conscious capitalism". view project Cyberspace/Los Angeles Selected Exhibitions 2007 Denise DeSpirito & Diana McClure: Constructed Consciousness: Spiritualized Matter, Invisible NYC, New York The Crossover, The Showroom Gallery, New York Sonic Entrance, Melt Gallery, Los Angeles FORGIVE?, The Gallery at Harriet’s Alter Ego, New York The Art of T&A: Truth & Activism, Intermediate Arts, B Girl BE, Minneapolis 2006 Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Forty Acres and a Mule Gallery, Sacramento Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, City Gallery East, Atlanta 2005 Republica de Artistas, Wifredo Lam Gallery, Havana, Cuba Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Philadelphia African American Museum, Philadelphia Side by Side: A photographic & sculptural experience, Tilford Art Group Studio Gallery, Los Angeles 2004 Undocumented Ground: Los Angeles Photographic Visionaries, Crewest, Los Angeles Work It! Images of Women in Hip-Hop, Eyejammies Fine Arts Gallery, New York Envisioning the Future, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona 2003 Corazones, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles 2002 Time?, Studio 7 @ The Brewery, Los Angeles Revelations…Revolution!, Casa 0101, Los Angeles 2001 It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts Gallery, New York Rapid Eye Movement, Skylight Gallery, New York Selected Bibliography 2007 Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, by Deborah Willis, (forthcoming) 2004 Galleries: Los Angeles Minus the Glitz, Calendar section, Los Angeles Times Undocumented Ground: Los Angeles Photographic Visionaries, Crewest, Los Angeles |
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