COURIER LIFE, NOV. 29-DEC. 5, 2019 29
Diana Jensen was born on
an American military base
in Frankfurt, Germany and
raised in Baton Rouge, LA.
Diana studied with Ed Paschke
at Northwestern University.
After receiving her
MFA and attending Skowegan,
she moved to New York
City where she is now lives
and works.
As a child she prowled
though the thrift stores, flea
markets and junk yards of
southern Louisiana, with
her dad (a collector of unusual
castoffs) looking for
interesting items, ephemera
and relics of the past.
Currently she makes
paintings and installations
that reference vernacular
photography from the 1970s
to the present day. Influences
include Americana, New Orleans/
Chicago figuration
and outsider art.
Jensen’s recent solo exhibion,
“A Decade in Dumbo:
4 Installations” was featured
at Chashama Space @
One Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Her paintings have been
exhibited widely including
such venues as: The Visual
Art’s Center of New Jersey;
Temporare Kunsthalle
Friedrichshain, Berlin; Heskin
Contemporary, NYC;
Korjaamo Galleria, Helsinki,
Finland; SafeTGallery,
Brooklyn; White Columns,
NYC; Bucheon Gallery, San
Francisco; Artemisia Gallery,
Chicago; The Newark
Museum; The Islip Art Museum;
and the Galleria Belykis
Ayon en el Centro de
Artes Experimentales in Havana,
Cuba.
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In Patricia Cronin’s work,
traditional forms of art making—
oil painting, sculpture,
and watercolor, for
instance—are the channels
through which she addresses
various contemporary political
issues. Cronin’s themes
cover homosexuality, feminism,
the body, sex, class,
and art history. She has expressed
these themes in conjunction
with historical figures
such as Dante Alighieri
or Harriet Hosmer, the 19thcentury
expatriate sculptor.
Cronin first gained recognition
in the 1990s for a series
of performance-based photographs
and watercolors
depicting the artist in the
act of love making with her
partner, and since then, she
has continued to develop a
sophisticated and dynamic
artistic practice.
Cronin has had solo exhibitions
in New York at both
the Brooklyn Museum and
White Columns, as well as
in Rome at Musei Capitolini
Centrale Montemartini and
the American Academy in
Rome Art Gallery. Selected
group exhibitions include
those staged at the New Museum
in New York, the FLAG
Art Foundation in New York,
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum in Glasgow, the Atlanta
Center for Contemporary
Art, and the Drawing
Center in New York.
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