Diane Meyer

“In my series Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten, cross stitch embroidery has been sewn directly into family photographs. The images are broken down and reformed through the embroidery into a hand-sewn pixel structure. As areas of the image are concealed by the embroidery, small, seemingly trivial details emerge while the larger picture and context are erased. I am interested in the disjunct between actual experience and photographic representation and photography’s ability to supplant memory. By borrowing the visual language of digital imaging with an analog process, a connection is made between forgetting and digital file corruption. The tactility of the pieces also references the growing trend of photos remaining primarily digital- stored on cell phones and hard drives, but rarely printed out into a tangible object.”

Diane grew up in New Jersey and received a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Professor of Photography at Loyola Marymount University.

Solo exhibitions include those at Klompching Gallery, NYC; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts; 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; AIR Gallery, NYC, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City; the Encontros da Imagem Festival, Portugal and Gryder Gallery, New Orleans.

She has particapted in numerous group shows in the US and abroad including those at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Robert Mann Gallery, NYC; Regina Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna; The Brattleboro Museum of Art, Vermont; The Hood Museum, NH; Kunstagentur Dresden; Große Rathaus, Landshut, Germany; Diffusion International Photography Festival, Wales; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Field Projects, NYC; Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin; Galerie Huit, Arles; Susan Laney Contemporary, Savannah; Marshall Contemporary, Los Angeles and Flowers Gallery, London.

Diane’s work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum; Clarinda Carnegie Museum, the Hood Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

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AMcE Exhibitions

As I Saw It (2024)