BIO
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Diane creates and explores the image-making process in diverse and original ways. The artist attended the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and now resides in Chester, New Jersey. She is a working fine artist as well as a master art instructor. Her works are often comprised of multiple images that reference her family history, women’s issues, world culture, and connections to current events. Many paintings are pieced together by hand or machine stitching referring to the work performed in sweatshops by relatives preceding her generation.
Diane’s work has been displayed in major art exhibitions and has been acquired by various corporate and private collectors.
PRESS
“Charlie’s Sweatshop” - Artist’s Statement: Rose DeLucie is brave and supported her large family during WW II by working in a sweatshop in Brooklyn under outrageous conditions surrounded by toxic filth, thread, and dust. Because of her sacrifice the family held together. She later realized her full potential as a designer of women’s hats.
MARCH 1, 2020
BRAVE100:
ART BY AMERICAN WOMEN VISIONARIES
Marking a century of progress since women won the right to vote and setting the agenda to achieve economic, political and social equality.
“Visual Ekphrasis” is derived from 2 original works: Oil on paper and charcoal calligraphic marks. The illegible marks are layered atop the colored work digitally. The result is a digital work inspired by 2 mediums creating a third.
OCTOBER 1, 2018
NAEA JURIED EXHIBIT
Sixty-two artworks were selected for inclusion in the 2018 NAEA Member Exhibit. These works are on display at the NAEA Studio & Gallery Oct. 1, 2018 - Jan. 4, 2019. Your work was thoughtfully reviewed by a panel of jurors and selected for display from among 386 peer submissions. Nationwide, there were 386 submissions from 29 states, and 62 works were selected by jurors for the gallery showing.
APRIL 11, 2013
MAM’S YOUNG CURATORS EXHIBITION
The Montclair Art Museum’s Young Curators hand-selected professional artists to exhibit in “Qualms, Oddities and Wake Up”. Presented at the Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ.
Curator’s Statement: Phares’s Macular Vision displays fears, anxieties, phobias and uncertainty of the future. Each circle displays an image of the artist’s mother’s eyes that unfortunately have been plagued by a genetic disorder that could potentially be passed down to Phares. The piece symbolizes a fear that is ultimately unavoidable. The background is meant to represent brain matter, which connects to the theme of the exhibition because qualms are only present within our minds.
MAY 28, 2010
The Pen + Brush, dedicated to women in the visual, literary and performing arts, has the greatest chance of effecting real change for women in the arts by advocating for the merit of their work through our platform while moving them forward into their professional fields. Women are given a chance to sell their work and fundraise for P+B. This event is an “Art Day Extravaganza”.
MAY 7, 2009
OCTOBER 7, 2009
OCTOBER 14, 2008
