Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
Diane Meyer 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. 

Her work has been included 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; DiffusionInternational Photography Festival, Wales; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Field Projects, NYC; FotogalerieFriedrichshain, Berlin; Galerie Huit, Arles; Susan Laney Contemporary, Savannah; Marshall Contemporary, Los Angeles and Flowers Gallery, London.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum; the Hood Museum, and theMuseum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

Education
BFA, Photography New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; MFA Visual Arts University of California, San Diego

Select Exhibitions/Awards
Solo Exhibitions: 
Mitte Museum, Berlin, Germany ( upcoming November 2024)
Photo NOLA Festival, New Orleans, LA
Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal
Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

Group Exhibitions:
Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Rotlicht Festival für Analoge Fotografie, Vienna, AT
PH Museum Days Festival, Bologna, Italy
Face B, Brussels, Belgiumb
G Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany 
Marshall Contemporary, Venice, CA
The Curve, Berlin, Germany
The Hood Museum, Hanover, NH
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Diffusion Photography Festival, Cardiff, Wales
Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Regina Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, AT
Galerie Huit, Arles, France
Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia
Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL
Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hungary
AMCE Creative Arts, Seattle, WA

Gallery Representation
Klompching Gallery

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
This piece is a unique work from an ongoing project entitled, Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten. In these images, cross stitch embroidery has been sewn directly into family and travel photographs from periods throughout my life. 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 as well as the ways in which photographs transform personal history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past. 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.


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