2024
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio Carol Diamond received a B.F.A. in Painting from Cornell University and studied at the New York Studio School. She is a tenured Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and teaches Graphic Design at CUNY’s City College of Technology.
Recent show venues include Lichtunfire Gallery, Equity Gallery, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, Zürcher Salon, Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, Eyes on Main Street in Wilson, North Carolina, Kent State University, and the Painting Center in NYC. Her artwork is included in public and private collections, including the Portland, Oregon Museum of Art.
Diamond was awarded a Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Invitational Exhibition, a Pratt Institute Professional Development Grant, and the National Academy Museum’s Edwin Palmer Prize. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Too Much Art, the Manhattan Times, Painting Perceptions, and the Pelham Art Center. Her art writing and reviews are published in Art Critical, Painters on Painting, Two Coats of Paint, and Delicious Line.
Diamond's newest work is predominately multimedia, encompassing found materials assemblage sculpture, abstract painting and Plein Air drawing of architectural sites in New York City. Often executed concurrently, her artworks in various media are driven by the tension and tumult of urban life.
Diamond's engagement, and entanglement - with the urban landscape has traveled with her through the various neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Manhattan, developing a lifelong passion for urban forms, spaces, and architecture. Mining of the metaphoric potential of materials, whether brick, stone, or detritus found on the streets and sidewalks where she walks, has continued ever since. The new assemblage sculptures reconfigure and transform repurposed, upcycled materials: flattened cans, broken glass, concrete chunks, wire mesh, twisted fabric scraps, cables and wires, and are both playful and dark.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio Carol Diamond received a B.F.A. in Painting from Cornell University and studied at the New York Studio School. She is a tenured Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and teaches Graphic Design at CUNY’s City College of Technology.
Recent show venues include Lichtunfire Gallery, Equity Gallery, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, Zürcher Salon, Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, Eyes on Main Street in Wilson, North Carolina, Kent State University, and the Painting Center in NYC. Her artwork is included in public and private collections, including the Portland, Oregon Museum of Art.
Diamond was awarded a Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Invitational Exhibition, a Pratt Institute Professional Development Grant, and the National Academy Museum’s Edwin Palmer Prize. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Too Much Art, the Manhattan Times, Painting Perceptions, and the Pelham Art Center. Her art writing and reviews are published in Art Critical, Painters on Painting, Two Coats of Paint, and Delicious Line.
Diamond's newest work is predominately multimedia, encompassing found materials assemblage sculpture, abstract painting and Plein Air drawing of architectural sites in New York City. Often executed concurrently, her artworks in various media are driven by the tension and tumult of urban life.
Diamond's engagement, and entanglement - with the urban landscape has traveled with her through the various neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Manhattan, developing a lifelong passion for urban forms, spaces, and architecture. Mining of the metaphoric potential of materials, whether brick, stone, or detritus found on the streets and sidewalks where she walks, has continued ever since. The new assemblage sculptures reconfigure and transform repurposed, upcycled materials: flattened cans, broken glass, concrete chunks, wire mesh, twisted fabric scraps, cables and wires, and are both playful and dark.