NANCY DIAMOND creates work that offers a glimpse into a subliminal macrocosm, and negotiates a convergence of outer and interior worlds. Whether the inspiration is inanimate or sentient, Diamond’s subjects remain in a state of becoming, straddling the familiar and the alien. The concreteness of the illusion in her images blurs boundaries between documenting nature and her own invention. Her often-repeated themes have included resilience and the passage of time. Diamond’s creations are marked by an intensity of focus intertwined with a whimsicality of representation. Her hallucinatory visons are tethered to realism, lending to works that are not totally alien and based on her observations, yet susceptible to and reliant on her imagination and instinct.
Nancy Diamond was born in New York City and earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a double degree in painting and film. Her work has been shown in exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Grants and awards include the National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Marie Walsh Sharpe/Walenta Space Program residency. She had been a long-time resident of New York City but now lives full-time in a mountaintop meadow in upstate NY, where she is an intimate participant in the infinite changes that take place season-to-season, day-to-day, and second-to-second.