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OverviewDiana Moore is a figurative sculptor who works predominantly in concrete. She is inspired by ancient figurative sculptures from diverse cultures such as Etruscan, Greek, Egyptian, and Cambodian. Moore's use of concrete pays homage to the ancient Romans who used the medium for its strengthening properties in their architectural constructions. In her figures and portrait heads one can note a similar strength and resilience inherent within the works. The portraits and life-size sculptures are frontal yet neutral, the organic quality of their medium lending to the ambiguous nature of their ethnicity and gender. Moore deliberately creates "generic" sculptures in order to highlight their universality and timelessness.
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Works
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Sputter
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Squirt
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Spill
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Holey Purse
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Noon Vessel
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Seedy Purse
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Prickly Purse
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Torso
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Urn of Justice
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Spiral Purse
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Purse of Plenty
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Lively Lines
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Figure with Cap
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Head in Ivory
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The Three Graces
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Model for Urn of Justice
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The Earth in Paint 1
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Irrigation Circles No. 4
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Red Head with Hat
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Macle
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River
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Rotating Lines (Yellow Field Area)
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Promising Beginnings
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Field Geometry 4 Tree Islands in the Fall
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Layers of Meaning
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Green Fields with Gold Bands
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Four Ponds
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Fields & Islands
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Field Geometry
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Waterworks 1
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Probing the Layers
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Line Dance 1
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Line Dance 2
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Dividing Line
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Field Geometry 2
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Gold Field with Green Fingers
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A Stream Through Fields in Bloom
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Study in Greens and Golds
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Wet and Dry Fields Louisiana
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Field Geometry 5 Tree Island with Triangular Pond
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FIeld Geometry 2.2
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Pond With Red and Green Fields
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Stream Through Green and Gold Fields
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Green Fields With Pond
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Blue and Gold: a Texas Reservoir
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A Bend in the Old Muddy
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Light and Shadow on Rice Fields No. 4
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Light and Shadow on Rice Fields No, 4 (R)
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Light and Shadow on Rice Fields No. 4 (L)
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Light and Shadow on Rice Fields No. 3
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Light and Shadow on Rice Fields No. 2
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Red Head with Band
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Light and Shadow on Rice Fields: California
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Field Geometry 3
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Irrigation Circles: Oklahoma
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Irrigation Circles: Texas
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Irrigation Circles No. 3
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Patterns of Growth No. 2 (R)
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Patterns of Growth No. 2 (L)
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Patterns of Growth No. 2
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Patterns of Growth
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Stream Through Green and Gold Fields
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Model for Urn of Justice (Open Minded)
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Headroom
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Clutch
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Banded Purse
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Bumpy Purse
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Morning Vessel
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Night Vessel
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Homestead or Hillock
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Waterworks 2
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Rotating Lines (Black Field Area)
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Biography
"Though I have cast art in many different mediums, worked with various subject matter and made art for the public and private arenas, I think the connecting thread is an obsessive concern for clarity of form and precision of surface detail. By creating work which is almost jewel like in conception and execution, I hope to draw the viewer in to my way of seeing the world." — Diana Moore
Diana Moore is a figurative sculptor who works predominantly in concrete. She is inspired by ancient figurative sculptures from diverse cultures such as Etruscan, Greek, Egyptian, and Cambodian. Moore's use of concrete pays homage to the ancient Romans who used the medium for its strengthening properties in their architectural constructions. In her figures and portrait heads one can note a similar strength and resilience inherent within the works. The portraits and life-size sculptures are frontal yet neutral, the organic quality of their medium lending to the ambiguous nature of their ethnicity and gender. Moore deliberately creates "generic" sculptures in order to highlight their universality and timelessness.In her Earth Etchings, Moore is inspired by the bold and colorful patchwork stretches of land only visible from high above and has created a stunning and refreshing new visual proposal. These uncommon works of form, color and texture offer the viewer an opportunity to appreciate the landscape less as a depiction of reality and more as a unique configuration. Each piece is an amalgam of gypsum, cement and a binding agent, reinforced with fiberglass allowing for light-weight relief. Dry pigments and glazing are used to create a jewel-like surface of texture while preserving clarity of form.
Moore is best known for her several monumental depictions of Justice commissioned by the United States General Services Administration for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building and U.S Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey in 1994, the Warren B. Rudmen U.S Courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire in 1997, and the John M. Shaw U.S Courthouse in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1999.
Diana Moore was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She attended Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She’s exhibited her work at the Fresno Art Museum in California, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Italy, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She has received solo exhibitions at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, the Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Museum. Diana currently lives and works in Santa Fe.
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Exhibitions
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Winter Selections
A Group Exhibition 20 Jan - 5 Feb 2023We’re excited to share our annual exhibition Winter Selections, featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette . The minimalist environment of...Read more -
Diana Moore
Textures 29 Apr - 15 May 2022Moore’s newest series, Textures, is a continued exploration of the manner in which the female is seen through her sculptures, vessels, and her purse series. “As an artist, I wanted...Read more -
Abstractions 2021
19 Nov - 12 Dec 2021Featuring Work by Beverly Kedzior, Emilio Lobato, Joseph Ostraff, Willy Bo Richardson + Judy WoodsRead more -
Diana Moore
Earthworks 9 - 25 Apr 2021Nüart Gallery presents, Earthworks, an exhibition of new sculptural reliefs by sculptor Diana Moore. The exhibition will run April 9th through April 25th. Please join us for the exhibition opening...Read more -
Diana Moore
Earth Etchings 4 - 20 May 2018Inspired by the bold and colorful patchwork stretches of land only visible from high above, Diana has created stunning compositions. These uncommon works of form, color and texture offer the...Read more
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