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      “Movement, Layering and textural surfaces have been a constant in my work.  Organic forms swell and deflate in an undulating manner.  I enjoy taking materials to the edge, before they deconstruct and allow this fluid fragility to be visual.  Porcelain items merge and rest amongst each other in an assemblage of forms and larger, open structures are lifted up on wavy slabs, creating equally important spaces.  The relationships of the components and the tension and energy of the whole is what I enjoy playing with.”

     Diane lives in Yarmouthport, MA with her husband and is Director of Learning at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in Yarmouth, MA.   She holds degrees from The University of Vermont (B.S., Art Education and Certification k-12), Syracuse University (MFA, Ceramics) and Massachusetts College of Art(Certificate in Graphic Design). 

 

      Robert Ellison in American Craft writes that “Diane Giardi….let(’s) the nature of clay speak organically.”

 

       Art Historian, Therese Lichtenstein writes “Diane Giardi’s sculptures…invite us into a vertiginous world of abstract forms that evoke body parts.  Seemingly alive and dead, preserved and disintegrating, vulnerable and guarded,, her pale sculptures often appear like protective shields, windswept garments or ruins, surfacing from the sea.  The ‘primitivistic’ shapes of these sculptures are so difficult to fix, so nearly formless, that they seem to suggest motion or the physical and spiritual process of becoming.”

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