Education
She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and also attended the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
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Dianna Molzan
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Molzan"s paintings are often considered as more of a three-dimensional object than a two dimensional surfaces on the wall. Referred to as carrying a sculptural quality, Molzan"s paintings are grounded within the practice of painting through the materials she uses, such as oil paints, canvas, linen, and canvas frame. She creates a juxtaposition between the mediums of sculpture and painting through the alteration of the physical state of the canvas.
Molzan’s work is associated with the techniques of impressionism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism.
Dianna Molzan was born in 1972 in Tacoma, Washington. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, writing her senior thesis, How the Frame was One, on the development both theoretical and symbolic framing devices within art, primarily focusing on two works: Georges Seurat"s Louisiana Grande Jatte (1884) and Eva Hesse"s Hang Up (1966).
Her first solo exhibition was at Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, in 2009. Solo exhibitions
2013: Louisiana Jennifer, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
2012: Grand Tourist, International Cooperation Administration Boston, Boston
2011: Bologna Meissen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2009: The Case of the Strand, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
2009: A Diamond in the Square, University of Southern California Roski Gallery, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
2015: Speed Space, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, curated by Alexandra Gaty
2015: Matters of Pattern, Skarskedt, New York
2014: Forever Now: Painting in the New Millennium, MoMA, New York, curated curated by Laura Hoptman with Margaret Ewing
2014: Animal Mineral Vegetable, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2014: Another Cat’s Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles
2014: The White Album, Richard Telles, Los Angeles
2013: Xstraction, The Hole, New York
2013: Expanding the Field of Painting, International Cooperation Administration Boston, Boston
2013: Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2012: The Piano Lesson, Vilma Gold, London
2012: Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
2012: Il Regalo, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
2011: The Rose-Colored Room, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles 2011: Progression Minus Progress, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco 2011: All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2010: How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2009: Rogue Wave ’09: 10 Artists from Los Angeles, Los Angeles Louver, Venice 2009: Civil Aeronautics Administration Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, University of Southern California Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles 2008: Some Paintings, Los Angeles Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Los Angeles
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Thus far in her career, she is known for exploring the relationship between painting and sculpture through deconstruction and materialization of traditional painting materials and tools. Molzan’s pieces consist of a process of deconstruction of the traditional elements of painting, which are then recombined into a new composition.
