(Image: Diana Guerrero-Maciá, The Expansion of the World, 2010, Hand sewn wool, cotton & vinyl on canvas, 41 x 42" ;   ©Traywick Contemporary)

Diana Guerrero-Maciá (b. 1966, Cleveland, OH, USA)

Diana Guerrero-Maciá's works defy the conventional concept of painting. Pieces of wool, vinyl, cotton, felt and leather are sewn together by hand and stretched like a canvas, producing a contemporary take on the traditional colonial sampler. Guerrero-Maciá often samples material from popular culture, exploring how recontextualization can affect meaning. Intrigued by the possibility of a found object being a catalyst for an idea, she simplifies visually compelling objects into the two-dimensional space of the canvas. Though text features prominently in her work, precedence is given to form and font rather than narrative organization. In so doing, her work presents reading as a process of visual interpretation.

Education: M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1992. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1992. B.F.A., Villanova University, 1988.

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