Artist Information
Diana Rae Zasadny
Born: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1968
Price Range: $450-$8100
Trees and Diana Zasadny have a special arrangement. They stand there and look beautiful and mysterious and she captures their beauty and mystery - the steadfastness of their commitment to the earth and their dreamy stretching towards the sky.
They unabashedly pose for her, in groups or groves, inviting her to portray them in all their seasons. Skillfully selecting units of colour and assembling them into a story, she reveals the individuality and the collectiveness of nature’s finest sentinels. Fascinated by the interplay of light and shadow, colour and shape, depth and detail, Diana reveals a shimmering, sensuous fragment of the mystical whole - trees becoming an apt metaphor for the human condition - bound to the earth but striving towards the light.
A meeting of heaven and earth, trees embody the groundedness and earthiness of terra firma with the ethereal embodiment of the spirit. Diana magically captures the essence of both, each tableau a tapestry of woven light and form - a coming together of the seen and unseen. Her foresty mosaics escape the territory of the visual and drift into the property of the auditory as her paintings have been described as needing to be seen and heard as the wind sways the trees and audibly rustles the leaves.
Born and raised in Lethbridge Alberta, Diana paints who she is - bringing her appreciation of nature born of her love of the prairie and the sky - to all her compositions. Focusing primarily on landscape, Diana blends the boundaries of impressionist interpretation and contemporary abstaction into a glimpse of that elusive realm of life between reality and imagination.
(written by Lison McCullough)
Born and raised in Lethbridge Alberta, Diana paints who she is - bringing her appreciation of nature born of her love of the prairie and the sky - to all her compositions. Focusing primarily on landscape, Diana blends the boundaries of impressionist interpretation and contemporary abstraction into a glimpse of that elusive realm of life between reality and imagination.
(written by Lison McCullough)
Born: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1968
EDUCATION
1991 Bachelor of Fine Art, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Notes from the Field, CASA Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2015 Inner Landscapes – Diana Zasadny and Linda Nardelli, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
14/15 Group Exhibitions; Wallace Galleries Gust Gallery, AyrSpace Gallery of Visual and Functional Art, Effusion Art Gallery, Candler Art Gallery, Ranchmen’s Club Calgary, CASA Lethbridge
2013 Group Exhibitions: Wallace Galleries, Gust Gallery, Candler Art Gallery, Artpoint Galleries
2012 Common Ground, Two Person Exhibit- Diana Zasadny/Shannon Williamson, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2012 Annual Lethbridge Arts Days, Studio Exhibition and Demo, Lethbridge, AB
2011 Group Exhibitions, Candler Gallery, Artpoint Society, Wallace Galleries
2011 Solo Exhibition, Theatre Calgary, Calgary, AB
2011 Summer’s Edge Exhibition, Edge Gallery, Canmore, AB
2010 Solo Exhibition, Artpoint Studios and Galleries Society, Calgary, AB
2009 Group Exhibitions, Candler Gallery, Artpoint Society, Wallace Galleries
2008 Winter Exhibition, Edge Gallery, Canmore, AB
2008 Group Exhibition, Framed Life Gallery, Etobicoke, ON
2008 Big Canvas Show, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2007 Solo Exhibition, Rotary Stampede Dream Home, Homes by Avi, Calgary, AB
2006 Wallace Galleries, Duo Exhibit- Diana Zasadny/Shannon Williamson, Calgary, AB
2004 Wallace Galleries, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2003 Canmore Artists and Artisans Guild, Joy of Autumn, Canmore Library Art Gallery, Canmore, AB
2003 Candler Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, Camrose, AB
2003 Leighton Centre Annual Juried Members’ Show, Calgary, AB
2003 Banff Midsummers Ball, Banff Centre, Banff, AB
02/03 Artrageous, Fundraiser, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
2002 Memorial Portfolio of the American Print Alliance-traveling exhibit, USA
2002 Pressed and Pulled X, National Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Georgia College and State University, USA
2001 Evolution: New Works by Diana Zasadny, Image 54 Gallery, Calgary, AB
2001 International Works on Paper, Juried Show, SOHO20, New York, NY
2001 Innovation on Paper: Nova Scotia Printmakers Association, University of Acadia, Wolfville, NS
2001 Brave New Prints Portfolio, Alberta Printmakers’ Society, McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2000 Brave New Prints Portfolio, Telus Convention Centre, ARTWALK 2000, Calgary, AB
2000 Calgary Printmakers, Image 54 Gallery, Calgary, AB
1999 Grace and Glamour ’99, Fundraiser, Grace Women’s Health Centre, Exhibition and Auction, Calgary, AB
1999 Northern Alberta Society of Printmakers, Fundraising Auction, Edmonton, AB
1998 X: Ten Year Anniversary Portfolio, Alberta Printmakers Society, Gallery San Chun, Calgary, AB
1998 Christmas Gift Show, Image 54 Gallery, Calgary, AB
1998 Malaspina Printmakers Society, Havana Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1998 Tales from the Press, Little Gallery, University of Calgary
1999 Atlin Art Centre Fundraising Auction, Calgary, AB
1997 University of Calgary Theatre – Alberta Printmakers Society Show
1996 Alberta Printmakers Society Annual Show and Sale, Mount Royal Village, Calgary, AB
1995 Alberta Printmakers Society Annual Show and Sale, Penny Lane, Calgary, AB
1994 Oliver Building Studio Show, Lethbridge, AB
1993 Alberta Theatre Projects, Group Exhibition, Calgary, AB
1993 Art in the March: International Women’s Day Exhibition, New Gallery, Calgary, AB
1991 ‘Square Deal Cubed’, New Gallery, Calgary, AB
1991 Directions IV – Nova Corporation of Alberta, Calgary, AB
1991 Presence of Absence (installation of Daniel Buren design) Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
1991 CANADA/JAPAN, Travelling Printmaking Exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery,
Involving: Alberta College of Art and Design, U of A, and University of Tokyo
COLLECTIONS
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
Alberta College of Art and Design Archives, Calgary, Alberta
Calbridge Developments Ltd, Calgary, Alberta
Calgary Petroleum Club, Calgary, Alberta
Collins Barrow Limited, Calgary, Alberta
Dermatica, Edmonton, Alberta
Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants, Calgary, Alberta
Parlee McLaws Barristers, Edmonton, Alberta
Paul Lavoie Interior Design, Calgary, Alberta
Numerous Private Collections
CHARITABLE DONATIONS
12/13 UNICEF Water for Life Gala, Calgary, AB
11/12 Hearts and Art, Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta, Lethbridge, AB
2008 In From the Cold Society, Calgary, AB
04/06 Denim and Diamonds, Canadian Diabetes Association, Calgary, AB
2003 Banff Midsummer’s Ball, Banff Centre, Banff, AB
02/03 Artrageous, Fundraiser, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
99/01 Grace and Glamour Fundraiser, Grace Women’s Health Centre, Exhibition and Auction, Calgary, AB
1998 Atlin Art Centre, Atlin,BC
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