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Dianna Molzan (born 1972) is an American contemporary artist, a painter based in Los Angeles. Thus far in her career, she is known for exploring the relationship between painting and sculpture through deconstruction and materialization of traditional painting materials and tools.
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Molzan's paintings are often considered as more of a three-dimensional object than a two dimensional surfaces on the wall. Referred to as carrying a sculptural quality, Molzan's paintings are grounded within the practice of painting through the materials she uses, such as oil paints, canvas, linen, and canvas frame.
Molzan’s pieces consist of a process of deconstruction of the traditional elements of painting, which are then recombined into a new composition. She creates a juxtaposition between the mediums of sculpture and painting through the alteration of the physical state of the canvas.
Molzan’s work is associated with the techniques of impressionism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism.
Biography
Dianna Molzan was born in 1972 in Tacoma, Washington. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and also attended the Universität der Künste in Berlin. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, writing her senior thesis, How the Frame was One, on the development both theoretical and symbolic framing devices within art, primarily focusing on two works: Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte (1884) and Eva Hesse's Hang Up (1966).
Her first solo exhibition was at Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, in 2009.
Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
2011: The Rose-Colored Room, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles 2011: Progression Minus Progress, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco 2011: All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2010: How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2009: Rogue Wave ’09: 10 Artists from Los Angeles, LA Louver, Venice 2009: CAA Los Angeles MFA Exhibition, USC Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles 2008: Some Paintings, LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles