Dianna Frid

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Raised in Mexico City and Vancouver, Dianna Frid currently lives in Chicago where she is an artist and Assistant Professor in Studio Arts in the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work builds on a longstanding concern with architecture and with re-imagining literary and scientific representations of natural phenomena. For several years she has been making and exhibiting books, objects, and installations that join mixed media, sculpture, and works on paper. Her work has been shown in galleries in the USA and abroad and at numerous public venues including PS1-MOMA (NY), The Drawing Center (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and the Neues Kunstforum (Cologne). She has received grants from The Canada Council for the Arts and a Chicago Artadia Award. Recently she was a resident at The Wall House 2 Foundation in Groningen, where she will be creating a site-specific project for 2013.

  • I alone was to hear their voices/Their ravishing voices out across the air (the relative lengths of two Homeric lines as translated by Robert Fagles) (2011)

    cardboard, plaster, gesso, paper, graphite, powder dyes, fixative, 69.5 × 16 × 14 inches

  • Installation view; Evidence of the Material World, devening projects + editions, 2011

  • Installation view; Evidence of the Material World, devening projects + editions, 2011

  • The Refulgents (2011)

    loth, colored pencil, clay, paper, graphite, 37.75 × 13 × 11.5 inches

  • Being the Transmitter (2011)

    paper, acrylic paint, graphite, cloth, embroidery floss, clay, pins, adhesives, 57.5 × 40.5 × 1 inches

  • Words from Obituary (#1) (2011)

    Detail

    canvas, paper, embroidery floss, graphite, adhesives, 16 × 21 inches

  • The Fourth Word Spoken on the Moon (2011)

    paper, acrylic paint, colored pencil, cloth, embroidery floss, aluminum, adhesives, 77 × 78 inches

  • Evidence of the Material World (2011)

    paper, acrylic paint, graphite, cloth, embroidery floss, ink jet prints, aluminum, adhesives, 60.25 × 80.5 inches

  • skylight and spectra (2010)

    metallic adhesives, paint, theatrical gels, cloth and color foil, 400 sq meters

    Site-specific installation made for the neues kunstforum, Cologne, Germany

  • skylight and spectra (2010)

    metallic adhesives, paint, theatrical gels, cloth and color foil, 400 sq meters

    Site-specific installation made for the neues kunstforum, Cologne, Germany

  • skylight and spectra (2006)

    metallic adhesives, paint, theatrical gels, cloth and color foil, 400 sq meters

    Site-specific installation made for the neues kunstforum, Cologne, Germany

  • The Forces that Shape Them, partial installation view (2009)

    Gahlberg Gallery

  • The Breaking of a Bubble is Itself a Worthy Study (after CV Boys) (2009)

    mixed media on paper, 78.5 × 96 inches

  • What We Often Simply Call Air (2009)

    mixed media on paper, 52 × 68 inches

  • However Dead It May Be, Though Desolate and Uninviting, One Day Man Will Land There and Explore the Moon First Hand (2009)

    paper, aluminum, inkjet print on cloth and frame, 47 × 48 × 12.5 inches

  • Since We Can Measure the Height of Mountains (2009)

    Cardboard, plaster, paint, cloth, thread, 81 × 78 × 6 inches

  • Since We Can Measure the Height of Mountains (2009)

    Detail

    Cardboard, plaster, paint, cloth, thread, 81 × 78 × 6 inches

  • Light Visible to the Eyes of Man (2009)

    mixed media on paper, 85 × 56 inches

  • Vertical Shadows, installation view at devening projects + editions (2008)

  • Vertical Shadow #6 (Last of Fog) (2008)

    Cardboard, wood, cloth, plaster, paint and ink, aluminum, papier-mache, 48 × 47 × 24 inches

  • Vertical Shadow #5 (Stata and Halo) (2008)

    Cardboard, wood, metal, cloth, plaster, plastic, paint, ink, paper, lightbulb, cable, papier-mache, 72 × 26 × 24 inches

  • Vertical Shadow #2 (Cumulonimbus) (2007)

    Cardboard, wood, cloth, plaster, plastic, paper, acrylic, papier-mache, 84 × 16 × 14 inches

  • Vertical Shadow #1 (Cloud, Mountain) (2007)

    Cardboard, wood, cloth, plastic, paper, acrylic, encaustic, metal, papier-mache, 66 × 24 × 27 inches

  • Cirro-Cumulus Transforming from Cirro-Stratus (2008)

    From the series Engines of Weather

    mixed media on paper, 12 × 9 inches

    sold

  • Cyclops (2008)

    From the series Engines of Weather

    mixed media on paper, 12 × 9 inches

    sold

  • Corporeal Astronomy (2007)

    From the series Star Wheel Studies

    mixed media on paper, 12 × 9 inches

    sold

  • Engine of Weather #2 (2008)

    paper, adhesives, acrylic, ink, foil, plastic, 44 × 54 inches

    sold

  • Star Wheel Launchpad (2008)

    tape, cloth, plastic, foil, adhesive, thread, ink, cardboard, metal, plastic, variable dimensions; large circle measures 144 inches in diameter

    Installed at the Drawing Center, NYC

  • Star Wheel Launchpad (2008)

    Detail

    tape, cloth, plastic, foil, adhesive, thread, ink, cardboard, metal, plastic, variable dimensions; large circle measures 144 inches in diameter

    installed at the Drawing Center, NYC