Diane Warner-Wang American, b. 1956
Restlessness and exploration is a theme in Diane Warner-Wang’s life and in her art. There’s a clear trajectory and connection in Diane’s call to biotech and the direction of her painting. Ten years ago, when she studied plein air technique and figurative drawing with Jim Smyth and Brigitte Curt she knew the analytical, thinking foundation they were providing was solid. But it was Symth’s figurative gesture drawing classes - quick sketches of the human form sometimes drawn with stick and ink - that gave Diane the freedom to trust her instincts and intuition. Further study with Melinda Cootsona, Ovanes Berberian and Oliver Sin supported her exploration around maintaining the equilibrium between the analytical mind and creative impulse. This work brought her to abstraction - and in particular figurative abstraction.
Born in Texas, she spent her childhood in Southern California and as a young woman lived for a time in Iran. Diane, now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a masters degree in experimental psychology from Southern Methodist University. With a deep interest in statistics, programming and network engineering, Diane’s primary career was spent in the technology sector as a Senior Network Engineer for Worldcom/British Telecom/MCI. In midlife she changed course, returned to school and after training moved into biotech as a Research Associate at Diagnostics for the Real World. Diane Warner-Wang’s paintings can be found in collections across the United States and in Europe and the U.K. Her work has received numerous awards in exhibits at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, NUMU of Los Gatos’ Greater Bay Area Open, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and The Salon at Triton Museum in Santa Clara, California. She is regularly juried into exhibits with Artist Alliance, art-fluent, the California Art Club (CAC), SFVACC/SCORE in Los Angeles and the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California.
Born 1956, Ft. Worth, TX
Lives and works in Palo Alto, CA
EDUCATION
2013
California Academy of Painters
1981
Experimental Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, M.S.
1978
Psychology, West Texas State University, Canyon, TX, B.S.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Summer Vibes, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion,, Arc Gallery, Jurors Elizabeth Addison, Karen Gutfreund, Meghan MacLeod, San Francisco, CA
Salon at the Triton, Juror Aly Gould, San Jose, CA
Reclamation: Womxn Reshaping Figures, Juror Pamela Walsh, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Dualities, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Jurors Bonnie Powers and Jeffrey Levin, Mill Valley, CA
2023
Potentiality/Actuality, GBAO (Greater Bay Area Open), Jurors Pancho Jimenez and Allison Railo, New Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
TINY, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Women Artists Making Their Mark, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Jurors Suzanne Gray and Donna Seager, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Figure, Juror Michelle Gregor, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
A New Perspective, Juror Dr. Orin Carpenter, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2022
SmallMediumLarge, Juror Pamela Walsh, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
Above and Below, Juror Jennifer Perlmutter, Artist Alliance, National online exhibit
Not Just Landscapes, Juror Richard McDaniel, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CAThird Place
Amore , Juror Amy Matteson Neill, art-fluent, International online exhibit
Human Form & Figure, SFVACC/SCORE, Juror Mahala T. Sinclaire, Los Angeles, CA
Salon at the Triton, Jurors Jeff Brown, Terry Kreiter, Angela Holmes, San Jose, CA First Place
INTERIOR/EXTERIOR, Juror Jen Tough, Artist Alliance, National online exhibit
Abstraction, Juror Katerine Filice, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
It's Only Human, Juror Darren Kerr, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
WITHIN, art-fluent, Juror Amy Matteson Neill (Director of art-fluent), International exhibit
Capture the Moment, Juror Annette Schutz, ArtHaus Consulting, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Live, Learn, Change, Grow, GBAO (Greater Bay Area Open), Jurors Preston Metcalf
(Director of Triton Museum) and Julie Ericsson (Curator of New Museum of Los Gatos), Los Gatos, CA Second Place
Ode to California, Juror Jim Caldwell, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
Figures and Faces, Juror Jen Tough, The Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Jam Session, Juror Gina Tuzzi, The Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Sugar High, Juror Jen Tough, The Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
