Art
ARTIST STATEMENT
Diana McClure uses photography, collage, writing and web-based projects as tools to explore the liberation of thought, spiritual agency and women. Her art practice is informed by multiple narratives and engages metaphysics, astrology, nature, contemporary culture and the gathering of information. A strong compositional vocabulary and vibrant minimalism are key elements in the work.
COLLAGE x PHOTO
Photo collage pieces that speak to a long standing interest in the liberation of thought, spiritual agency, women and beauty.
Crown Chakra Shakti #2 (triptych), 2012
Wine & Spirits, 2012
Party Party, 2012
Adam’s Rib, 2012
COLLAGE
The Cosmic Sheness series engages the interconnectedness of concepts of Ashé, Shakti, Ch’i, The Holy Ghost, energy (sexual energy), Prana, and life force energy. The work also explores the relationship between spiritual agency and the liberation of thought embodied in concepts of female divinity from around the world.
kamakala dhyana or meditations on the art of love (Buddha copulating with the female source of his wisdom and power under the sun, moon, and stars), 2010
I and I Meditation the Original Vibration, 2010
Grace’s Syzygy (A goddess is born nightclubbin’ / zig zag zig), 2010
PHOTO
Libertas I and II, diptych performance photograph series by Diana McClure and Jaret Vadera.
PHOTO
Shoe portraits that documents the shoes of female friends. An ongoing series started in Los Angeles in 2002, and most recently worked on in Brooklyn, NY 2013.
- The Boss, 2002
- The Glamour of Opposite Sensations, from the series Love & Lust, 2002
- Momentary Pleasures, from the series Love & Lust, 2002
PHOTO
Film photography taken with available light.
San Juan, PR, 2007
Untitled Bliss, 2007
Koreatown, 2004
La Virgen Downtown, 2003
From the Eternal Moment: Manifestation of the Soul series, 2000
