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Since 1969 Pieri has had 27 solo exhibitions, 180 national and international group

exhibitions. She has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Grants(1999/1992), two

Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts (2001/2011), a Pennsylvania Council on the

Arts Grant (1992). She was included in the 2005 Philadelphia Invitational Portfolio,

Philagrafika. She has been a fellow at Yaddo (1991), The MacDowell Colony (1990). In 1990

Pieri was an Artist-in-Residence at Mark diSuvero's Socrates Sculpture Park where she

created a 15 ft. sculpture. In 2006 Pieri's public art project, Manyunk Stoops: Heart and

Home, a series of 9 seating elements fabricated in Italian tesserae, was installed along

the Manayunk towpath through the Fairmount Park Art Association's New Land Marks Program.

Working with Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, Pieri has completed 10 murals since 2001.

Since 2008 she has completed 4 murals in College Station, Texas. In 2005 Pieri founded the

Cooke Museum of Art, modeled after the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at the Jay Cooke

Elementary School in North Philadelphia. This museum is the only museum established within

a Philadelphia public school.

Artist Statement

I consider myself a Symbolic Abstractionist, incorporating meaningful symbols into fields

of abstraction. Many of the paintings shown here began with the idea of flotillas-naval

ships moving in formations. I wanted to take this concept, one historically used for war

like maneuvers, and switch it into a realm of beauty. Thus the big floating floral and

foliage images are flotillas in a world where war is not an option. This is overlaid with

the belief in the abstract expressionist concept of over-all composition as I create mini

flotilla formations in the hundreds of tiny collaged decorative papers and painted

configurations hovering around, near and with the large flotillas. Each area becomes a

symbolic microcosm many times hovering at the edge leaving the center open. The openness

is symbolic of air, breath, breathing itself. The touch of an artist, the weight of the

hand, is considered. I want my work to feel light to the touch, yet lingering. My over

arching desire is to make art that beautifies life's experiences.

Gold leaf is an important tool of mine because it portrays a timeless and universal

elegance. I use Gampi paper because of its limpness and color, Chiyogami papers for their

decorativeness. Previous work, over a period of 20 years, has been done on papyrus, Abaca,

linen, flax, Cave papers, Mexican Bark papers and Indian Lokta. I choose papers that bring

with them an ethnic collaboration. Aesthetically my work is a weave of Japan, India and

Tibet, cultures wealthy in meaning, symbol, color and purposeful design and whose need for

beauty in everyday life is uncompromised.

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DIANE PIERI

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Diane Pieri is represented by the Rosenfeld Gallery, 113 Arch Street,

Philadelphia, PA 19106

www.therosenfeldgallery.com Work can also be seen on www.InLiquid.com

EDUCATION

BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Tyler in Rome Program, Rome Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

From Then Till Now, The Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA

Waterfall Journeys, Chestnut Hill College Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Waterfall Journeys, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Flotillas, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Sightseeing at Mount Meru, Rosenfeld Gallery,Philadelphia, PA

Sacred Lakes, St Joseph s University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Sacred Lakes, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Day and Night on Earth, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Symbolic Landscapes, AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA

Symbolic Landscapes, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia,PA

Tears of Living, The Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO

Fire Danger High, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Three Hours Later, Porter Gallery, U of CA Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Tears of Living, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

New Work, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Paintings, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

Good Luck Bundles, Broad Street Window, U/Arts, Philadelphia, PA

New Work, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Paintings and Sculpture, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Sculpture, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Guardian Angels, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

Small Sculpture, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Recent Paintings, Noel Butcher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Paintings, Systems and Technology Corp., Malvern, PA

Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Paintings, American Medical Association, Philadelphia, PA

Paintings, US Embassy, Bucharest, Romania

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Cruz Bay Courtyard (continuation), Cruz Recreation Center, Mural Arts Program,

Philadelphia

Forest Ridge Marketplace, Forest Ridge Elementary School, College Station, Texas

A Magical Forest, Forest Ridge Elementary School, College Station, Texas

Forest Flowers, Forest Ridge Elementary School, College Station, Texas

Floral Arrangements, 1% for Art,RDA, Philadelphia, PA (unrealized)

My Journey From South Africa, Lead Artist, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA

Flowering Friendship Plates, Lowell Elementary School, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia,

PA

Manayunk Stoops: Heart and Home, Manayunk Canal Towpath, commissioned by Fairmount Park

Art Association, Philadelphia, PA

Cruz Bay Courtyard, Cruz Recreation Center, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia,PA

Many Voices, Many Eyes, John Paul Jones Middle School, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia,

PA

Waterview Island, Waterview Recreation Center Spray Park, Mural Arts Program,

Philadelphia, PA

Walnut Lane Flowers, Walnut Lane Overpass Bridge-Germantown, Mural Arts Program,

Philadelphia, PA

Turtle Bay, 48th & Woodland Recreation Center, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA

Starr Garden, Starr Garden Recreation Center, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA

GRANTS & AWARDS

Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Invitational Portfolio, Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA

Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Visiting Artist Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Individual Creative Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA

Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

Artist-in-Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Artist-in-Residence, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Diane Pieri- A Space For Joy, YouTube film, John Thornton

Fifth Graders Star in Art Show, Traver Riggings,, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7,

p.B1

Flowering Up Forest, The Eagle, College Station, Texas, January 17, p.A7

Public Art Review, Spring/Summer, Issue 36, p.91

More Philadelphia Murals and the stories they tell, Jane Golden, Robin Rice, Natalie

Pompilio, Temple University Press, pp 102,131-132

A Transformation, step by step, Dafney Tales, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10,

B4

Germantown artist Diane Pieri finds inspiration in stoops of Manayunk, Jeremy Barker,

Germantown Courier, September 27, p. 4

Art along the Towpath, Jeremy Barker, The Review, September 13, pp. 1 and 6

Making the Grade, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, June 7-13, p.37

No Man s Land, exhibition catalog, essay by Monroe Denton, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long

Island City, NY

Diane Pieri, exhibition catalog, essay by Impala Corona, Lycoming College, Williamsport,

PA

Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, exhibition catalog, essays by Alice Beamsdorfer,

Danielle Rice and Paula Marincola, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

10 X 12: A Decade of Fleisher Challenge Artists, exhibition catalog, curated by Lanny

Bergner, essays by Jody Pinto, Martha Chahroudi, Anne Percey and Judith Tannenbaum,

Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Five Years of Fleisher Challenge Exhibitions, exhibition catalog, curated by Stephen

Talasnik, essays by Penny Balkin Bach and David Pease, Philadelphia Art Alliance,

Philadelphia, PA

Collage and Assemblage, exhibition catalog, curated by Francis Nauman, essay by Francis

Nauman, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (Traveling Exhibition)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

The American Consulate, Hong Kong, China

Sapporo Hilton, Sapporo, Japan

State Committee for Culture and Art, Bucharest, Romania

Hewlett Packard, Denver, CO

Walden Group, Palo Alto, CA

Print & Picture Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Aramark Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

William & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

Systems & Technology Corporation, Malvern, PA

State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

And numerous private collections

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997 - present:

Teaching Artist, The Delphi Art Club, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Artist-in-Residence, Art Partners, Philadelphia Museum of Art2005 - present

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Founder and Artist-in-Residence, Cooke Museum of Art, Jay Cooke Elementary School,

Philadelphia, PA

2002 - present

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Adjunct Professor, Department of General Studies, Thomas Jefferson University,

Philadelphia, PA

DIANE P IERI

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