About Diane
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
In my artistic practice, I create connections between objects, images and materials to explore a wide range of personal and political themes. Through the interplay between colors, textures and forms of painted images and physical objects, I tell stories that echo my past experiences. My work reveals that memories are real and imagined, personal and impersonal, and opens a space for the viewer to register an emotional response.
My process of creating each image requires chance encounters as well as aesthetic deliberation. Objects sometimes offer me the means to complete a piece that feels unfinished. In such cases, my collection of materials serves as a visual inventory of possibilities that enables me to continue my work. Other times, an object’s shape, color or composition suggests the beginning of an image.
The act of applying paint, combining materials or the putting together of paper in a collage—this physical crafting of an image—is a core part of my work. I find inspiration in the process itself. The surprising associations in my work are my way of creating a richer work with multiple layers of meaning.
RESUME
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2007 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2005 Katharina Rich Perlow, New Paintings, New York, NY
2003 Katharina Rich Perlow, New Paintings, New York, NY
2001 Katharina Rich Perlow, New Collage Paintings, New York, NY
1999 Katharina Rich Perlow, New Works, New York, NY
1997 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1993 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1989 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
Group Exhibitions
2022 White Plains Library, The In-Between Spaces, White Plains, NY
2021 Carter Burden Gallery, Looking Forward, New York, NY
2021 White Plains Library, Regeneration, White Plains, NY
2020 Riverfront Art Gallery, The Roar Within, Yonkers, NY
2019 Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2019 Riverfront Art Gallery, imMIGRATION, Yonkers, NY
2019 Riverfront Art Gallery, Womantide, Yonkers, NY
2018 Garison Art Center, Small Works 2-1/2, Garrison, NY
2018 Hastings on Hudson Village Hall, The River Flows Both Ways, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2018 White Plains Library, Studio Collective 2018, White Plains, NY
2018 Jazz Forum Arts, Tarrytown NY
2018 Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2017 Gallery IMA, Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2017 Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center, Observations and Variations, Pearl River, NY
2017 Donald Gallery, We are Rising: Women in Solidarity, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2016 Hastings on Hudson Village Hall, Our Town, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2016 Blue Door Gallery, Putting it All Together, Yonkers, NY
2016 A.I.R. Gallery, GenerationX: Razzle Dazzle, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Hastings on Hudson Public Library, Waterfront Conversing, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2014 Hastings on Hudson Village Hall, Our River, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2014 Fisher Gallery, 40th Anniversary Show, Avon, CT
2014 Kobalt Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2013 Kobalt Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2013 Hudson River Museum, Day of the Dead, Yonkers, NY
2013 Lazarus Gallery, Art of Play, New Rochelle, NY
2013 Kobalt Gallery, Three Women, Three Visions, Provincetown, MA
2012 Spring Street Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2011 Artspace Gallery, Work on Paper, Hartford, CT
2011 Kobalt Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2010 Blue Door Gallery, Women About Woman, Yonkers, NY
2010 Kobalt Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2009 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, A Farewell, Kent, CT
2009 Kobalt Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2008 Kobalt Gallery, 20/20, Kobalt Gallery, Kent, CT
2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, A Memorial for Jaques with 100 Artists, Kent, CT
2008 Kobalt Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2008 Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2007 Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
2007 Amy Simon Fine Art, Girls Gone Wild, Westport, CT
2006 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2006 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
2006 Westchester Arts Council, Invitational, White Plains, NY
2005 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
2004 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
2003 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Vessels, Kent, CT
2003 Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
2003 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
2002 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Paper Works, Kent, CT
2002 Katharina Rich Perlow, Holiday Show, New York, NY
2002 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
2002 Westchester Arts Council, The Human Presence, Interpretations, White Plains, NY
2001 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
2001 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
2000 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2000 Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, Hot Summer Group Show, MA
2000 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
2000 Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
1999 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
1999 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
1998 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1998 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
1998 Katharina Rich Perlow, The White Painting, New York, NY
1998 Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
1997 Katharina Rich Perlow, New York, NY
1997 Gallery at Hastings on Hudson, Elements, Hastings on Hudson, NY
1996 Painting Center, An Idea of Order, New York, NY
1995 Rye Arts Center, Fantasy in Form, Rye, NY
1995 148 Gallery, Salon Show, New York, NY
1994 Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1993 Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, In Your Own Backyard, NY
1993 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1993 Madeline Gutman Gallery, Miniature Gems, Elmsford, NY
1993 Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
1992 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1992 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1991 Organization of Independent Artists, Salon Show, New York, NY
1991 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1990 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1990 Fisher Gallery, Anniversary Show, Avon, CT
1989 Gallery at Hastings on Hudson, Grassroots Show, Hastings on Hudson, NY
1989 Hudson River Museum, Hudson River Open, Yonkers, NY
1989 A.I.R. Gallery, 2 Women, New York, NY
1988 Berkshire Art Museum, Works on Paper, Pittsfield, MA
1988 MS Gallery, Two Part Figures, Hartford, CT
1987 MS Gallery, Summer Works, Hartford, CT
1986 Northport Galleries, Expo V, Northport, NY
1985 Architecture in Art, Works on Paper, New York, NY
1985 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1983 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1980 Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
1979 Fisher Gallery, Collaborations, Avon, CT
1978 Third International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, London, England
1978 E.H. Gallery, National Exhibition of Work on or of Paper or Clay, Memphis, TN
1976 Second International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, London, England
Awards and Prizes
2018 Directors Choice Award, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1978 Wallace Memorial Library Purchase Prize Award
1977 Artist-in-Residence, Art Park, Lewiston, NY
Catalogs
2015 Our River, Hastings on Hudson, NY
1988 Exhibition of Works on Paper, Berkshire Arts Museum, MA
1987 The Expanding Circle, An Invitational Show of Fourteen Artists, MS Gallery, Hartford, CT
1978 Third International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, British Craft Centre, London, England
1978 National Exhibition of Work on or of Paper or Clay, Memphis State University, Memphis TN
1976 Second International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, British Craft Centre, London, England
Reviews
The Rivertowns Enterprise, “Studio Tour Veterans Change with the Times” April 2013
Art in America, “Diane Brawarsky at Katharina Rich Perlow”, October 2001
Cover, Volume 13, #1, “Diane Brawarsky, Katharina Rich Perlow”, 1999
New York Times, “From a Partnership of ‘Elements’ to a Show of Playfulness, February 1997
New York Times, “Diversity with a Common Thread”, February 1986
Publications
Janusz Korczak, Sculptor of Souls, Marcia Talmage Schneider, 2015 (illus., cover)
Gala, The Jewish Week Media Group, December 2013, (illus., page 27)
Text/Context, December 2011 (illus., page 13)
Text/Context, October 2010 (illus., cover)
Text/Context, April 2009 (illus., pages 7, 9)
Lilith Magazine, Volume 30, #2, Summer 2005 (illus., pages 32, 34)
Harper’s Magazine, March 2002 (illus., page 23)
Collections
Wellington Management Company, LLP, Boston, MA
Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library, Rochester, NY
Temple Beth Shalom, Hastings on Hudson, NY
Private Collections in the United States and Europe
Education
1978 MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Crafts, Rochester, NY
1973 BS, New York University, New York, NY
1969 School of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA