Dianne K Webb

As Webb investigates the narrative, she teases out visual aspects of a concept and reaches for the most effective media—paint, paper, fibre, print, encaustic, ink, or found objects. This is why you will see a wide variety of styles, materials and approaches in the work as the artist pursues each narrative. Webb finds that producing new works is a kind of dance, a communication between ideas, technique, materials, and finally the viewer.

Most recently Webb has been exploring the idea of transformation by focusing on the detritus cast aside from this process. Using natural silk fibers to create paper that is then molded into various vessels and forms creates each etherial yet solid artifact allowing the imagination to consider what inhabited these remnants and what may have emerged.

Other current works include an abstract collage based series on migrations. Using ink on various papers and fabrics applied with artist-made brushes, sewn with thread and dotted with ink, the artist examines the human (and other species) practice of migrations—traversing the terrain from one place to another.

Born in Maine, Webb is the middle generation of three generations of visual, literary, healing, and performing artists. She holds a BA and an M...

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
SANTA BARBARA, CA MA

LESLEY UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE, MA MFA

LESLEY UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE, MA BA/B

SOLO EXHIBITS OR INSTALLATIONS:
LIFE: THE MA BETWEEN BIRTH & DEATH
m|Architects Gallery, Houston, TX November 2017
INSENSIBLE LIGHT
Sundance, Houston, March-June, 2016
INSENSIBLE LIGHT
m|Architects Gallery, Houston, TX, February 2015
POETRY II BEYOND WHAT
CAMABRIDGE, MA June 2014 Lesley University, New Work Exhibition
POETRY I NEW WORK REVEAL
HOUSTON, TX September 2013 Invitational at Studio 33
IN SEARCH OF ABSOLUTION
HOUSTON, TX June 2013 Interactive installation at Spring Street Studios
SOLO SHOW @ BLANK SLATE
HOUSTON, TX May 2013 Selections from Oysters, Your or Me, and Broken Glass

JURIED EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS:
REAL/SURREAL, Spring 2018, Juried, Curator Carolyn Garcia, Silos, Sawyer Yards.
HERE & NOW, February 2018, Juried, City Hall Exbiton, by invitation, Houston, TX
ARTCETERA, LIVE PAINTING ARTIST, September 2014, Juried, live painting exhibition, Houston, TX
STEAMROLLED IV, 2014
GALLERY M SQUARED, HOUSTON, TX June 2014 Large woodcut print show, Ancestral Balance
THE STORY OF THE CREATIVE
NEW YORK, NY August-September 2013 Juried Group Show, What if God is All of Us, Disillusion Dissolution, El Malecon
PARALLAX AF
NY, NY May 2013 Juried, Selections from the Oyster Series
ARTOPIA, FEATURED ARTIST
HOUSTON, TX Febr...