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Statement
Bertolo was a founding member of Hallwalls, a pioneering artist-run alternative space in Buffalo, NY. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including “Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-Garde of the 70s” at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; “today.getDate()” at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY; “Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Postwar America” at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; “Telematic Connection: The Virtual Embrace” at the San Francisco Art Institute; and “Fragile Algorithm” at BKBX, Brooklyn, NY. Her work was included in several exhibitions at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn, NY. She was a studio artist in the National and International Studio Program at PS1 in Queens, NY, and was an artist-in-residence at Artpark in Lewiston, NY.
In addition, her collage-driven digital/interactive work has been shown in numerous media festivals, including the “Mostra de Video Independent” in Barcelona, Spain, La Biennale de Montreal, and the “LA Freewaves Festival” at MOCA in Los Angeles.
Fellowships and awards include The National Endowment for the Arts, two grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, CAPS—Creative Artists Public Service, The Jerome Foundation, and The Greenwall Foundation.
Bio
Diane Bertolo currently works with prints, paper, paint, and pixels in collage format to create works that reveal the Buddhist concept of impermanence and use the structure of language as an engine of meaning. Her evolving visual language is informed by the spectacle of disintegration and plays with chaos, logic, and uncertainty while quietly telling the story of nature in decline.
The small works presented to PeepSpace are 5 out of a series of 16 small collages entitled “Robot Remembers Garden.” Both the images and title seem benign until one understands that the garden is gone — all that remains is a cautionary tale.
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