Visual Elements: The artwork features a vibrant contrast between the intense pink background and the lush, verdant green blades of grass-like material that protrude from the canvas.
Subject Matter: The central focus is the organic, textured forms resembling sprouting seedlings or grass shoots emerging from the flat, solid surface.
Artistic Style and Technique: The piece exhibits a unique, mixed-media approach, combining flat, painted surfaces with sculptural, three-dimensional elements. The tactile, fibrous quality of the grass-like textures adds depth and visual interest.
Context: This contemporary artwork may explore themes of growth, renewal, and the interplay between natural and man-made elements, reflecting the artist's unique perspective on the natural world. ...
Dianna Molzan was born in 1972 in Tacoma. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Dianna Molzan experiments with new sculptural approaches to painting while maintaining an anchor in classical materials such as creating a handle out of canvas or restricting the painting to only the stretcher bars. These new approaches allow Molzan to marry the high brow of canonical painting materials with kisch, or as curator Laura Hoptman called it in 2014, a contemporary “reenactment” of traditional painting. ...
Various Small Fires (Los Angeles /Dallas /Seoul) began as a series of conversations with artists and curators in Esther Kim Varet’s Venice Beach kitchen while working on her doctoral dissertation. VSF debuted in Hollywood as an official gallery in 2015 with a roster of artists and its current Johnston MarkLee Architects-designed building. The Hollywood gallery contains three exhibition spaces, a unique sound corridor, and an outdoor gallery. VSF’s exhibition program explores several curatorial lines: climate, equality, and an international conversation. The gallery is known for offering artists debut shows, creating intergenerational conversations among the artists on its roster, and solidifying artists’ legacies within art history. In 2019, VSF opened a second location in the Hannam neighbourhood of Seoul, South Korea, followed recently this Spring by VSFs third outpost in Dallas, Texas. While Varet has very personal connections to both locations, they are also superlative art communities. These expansions emphasise the gallery’s commitment to innovation and global dialogue in the twenty-first century. In 2021, VSF became a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). ...
