A Decade in Dumbo: 4 Installations
Diana Jensen

Diana Jensen is presenting a decade survey of four, multi-paneled painting installations. For 11 years she had a painting studio in the Dumbo neighborhood. Focusing on portraiture, Jensen was inspired in part by the cross roads of the world atmosphere of this vibrant neighborhood. She makes paintings and installations referencing found vernacular photos—exploring the analog era of collecting and treasuring photographs—revealing their emotional and cultural significance. These four installations reference snapshots found in thrift stores, flea markets and the walls of a Pizzeria, in oil on canvas mounted on shaped wood and plexiglass panels.

Galactic 99 Installation consists of 99 paintings of pizzeria workers; Group Shot Italy, 1972 Installation is 40 paintings that reference one family photo; New York Story Installation’s source is a 1970’s era album of party pictures; Miami Fragments Installation draws from the 1980’s era holiday postcards of one senior couple.

About the Artist
Diana Jensen was born on an American military base in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Baton Rouge, LA. After receiving her MFA at Northwestern U and attending Skowhegan, she moved to New York City. She currently has an art studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. As a child she prowled though the thrift stores, flea markets and junk yards of southern Louisiana with her dad, looking for interesting items, ephemera and relics of the past. Currently she makes paintings and installations that reference vernacular photography from the 1970s to the present day.

Jensen’s paintings have been exhibited widely including such venues as: The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; Temporare Kunsthalle Friedrichshain, Berlin; Magnan Metz Gallery, NYC; Korjaamo Galleria, Helsinki, Finland; SafeTGallery, Brooklyn; White Columns, NYC; The Newark Museum; The Islip Art Museum; and the Galleria Belykis Ayon en el Centro de Artes Experimentales in Havana, Cuba.

For further information about Diana, visit her online at https://www.dianajensen.com/



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