Diane Carr
{{Short description|American artist (born 1946)}}
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Diane Carr is an artist known for her relief sculptures incorporating natural materials and forms.{{cite web |last1=Martineau |first1=Janet |title=Diane Carr's "spiral gestures" feature Lake Michigan sand and her love of nature |url=http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/saginaw/index.ssf/2008/11/diane_carrs_spiral_gestures_fe.html |website=mlive |access-date=10 October 2024 |language=en |date=15 November 2008}}{{cite book |last1=Abt |first1=Jeffrey |title=Up from the streets: Detroit art from the Duffy warehouse collection |date=2001 |isbn=0971097313 |page=60 |publisher=Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University}}
Career
Associated with the Cass Corridor artist, he works are small scale reliefs, rectangular in format, and constructed of layers of organic materials. Later works (1990s onward) are notable for their increased size and curvilinear forms.
She was a Guest Lecturer for Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The next year, Carr worked as a Painting Coordinator for Ox Bow Summer Workshop in Saugatuck, Michigan. The following year she was a Visiting Artist at Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Indiana.{{citation needed|date= March 2024}}
In 1985, Carr was a recipient of the Creative Artist Award given by the Michigan Council for the Arts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-carr/biography|title = Diane Carr Biography – Diane Carr on artnet}} Her work is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|www.dianecarrart.com}}
- [https://artcollection.wayne.edu/picture-of-the-week/picture-of-the-week-turtle-self-by-diane-carr-97847 Wayne State University — Picture of the Week: Turtle Self by Diane Carr]
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Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:American women sculptors