DIANNA FRID

title: Untitled # 1 (Cloud, Mountain), from the series "The Vertical Shadows"
date: 2007
dimensions: 66 x 24 x 28 inches
materials: Cardboard, adhesives, cloth, Mylar, ink, plaster, encaustic, paper mache, metal.

Dianna Frid's works are material responses to existing images, shapes and things in the world. In making objects, she stresses the relationship of two-dimensional representation to the concreteness of sculpture and hybrid things. Frid explores this concreteness through a physicality that relies on process as a means to expand and hone a technique, and that fuses the hand-made with formal and thematic concerns. In her work, Frid points to the tensions that exist between the tools with which the world is described and the world that exists in spite of these tools. She sees her work as a way to release these tensions and evoke other possible ways of encompassing things and images: ways that include the complexities of desire, contradiction, metaphor, and attention to form and sense experience.

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