Martha Diamond
From Three Decades
The New York Studio School is excited and proud to present "Martha Diamond: From Three Decades." This exhibition, the first retrospective overview of the artist's development since the early 1980s, launches the 2004-05 season at the gallery in the fortieth anniversary year of the School.
Born and educated in New York, Martha Diamond has developed an unmistakeable personal language from the forms and sensations of the city. Her painterly style, in equal measure energetic and rigorous, sharply observed and freely lyrical, mirrors the dualities of delirious New York itself with its soaring, exuberant skyscrapers and its endlessly complex street culture.
We are enormously grateful to Martha Diamond for her cooperation in making this exhibition possible. We take this opportunity to extend special thanks to the Museum of the City of New York (Susan Henshaw Jones, President and Director) for the generous loan of their important painting, "New York II," (2000), and to Ilka Scobie and the publishers of Artnet Magazine for their kind permission to reproduce Ms. Scobie's 2001 interview with the artist.
As ever, a big vote of thanks goes to our student crew, under the gallery captain, Nicolai Nickson, for the beautiful and professional installation of this show.
Graham Nickson
Dean, New York Studio School
David Cohen
Gallery Director, New York Studio School
Postscript: We are additionally grateful to Joe Fyfe, whose sensitive essay on the artist was added to site in June 2005
Essay »
By: Joe Fyfe The recent building boom has not yet blocked Martha Diamond’s piece of sky. Thus every morning her studio continues to bathe in generous amounts of natural light. It is an orderly room. The floor and the tabletop work surfaces are shiny and gummy from creamy high ...
Interview »
Interview, by Ilka Scobie This interview was originally published as "Urban Visionary" in Arnet Magazine, June 2001. reproduced with kind permission Martha Diamond, a native New Yorker, received a 2001 art award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. At the ceremony last month, Chuck Close presented her with ...
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Bibliography PERIODICALS 1999 Marin, Rick. "Footloose Where Art Lives," The New York Times, Sunday, November 21, Sunday Styles (Section 9), p.1 Tampa Review, Spring/Summer, p. 54 1998 The New York Times Magazine, "A San Francisco Treat," artwork in photo, p. 52 1997 Landi, Ann. "Queens Bounty," Newsday p.B1, B5 1996 ...
Media Release »
Martha Diamond: From Three Decades 8 West 8 Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) New York NY 10011 212 673 6466 Normal 0 0 1 123 705 5 1 865 11.1282 0 0 0 This first retrospective overview of Martha Diamond’s celebrated cityscapes presents a sampling of paintings ...