Dianne Smith
www.diannesmithart.com
IG: @diannesmithart
diannesmithart@gmail.com
Installations
Dianne Smith, Where There is Love, 2021. Butcher paper, video, Dimensions variable, video length 2 minutes, Exhibition Dionne Warwick:Queen of Twitter, Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ.
Dianne Smith, Costume Design, 2021. Butcher paper, I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me: A Juneteenth Celebration, Curated by Carl Hancock Rux Featuring Nona Hendryx, Kimberly Nicole, Marcelle Davies Lashley, and Helga Davis, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Dianne Smith, STUFF, 2020. Butcher paper, African fabric, mannequin heads, rope, string, staples, nails, video, Dimensions variable, video lengths variable. Inspired by the Ntozake Shange poem: somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff, Barnard College, New York, NY.
Dianne Smith, STUFF, 2018. Butcher paper, African fabric, rope, string, staples, nails, video, Dimensions variable, video lengths variable. Inspired by the Ntozake Shange poem: somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff, Charles H. Weight Museum, Detroit, MI.
Dianne Smith, STUFF, 2014. Butcher paper, African fabric, rope, string, staples, nails, video, Dimensions variable, video lengths variable. Inspired by the Ntozake Shange poem: somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff.
Dianne Smith, I Dream a World, 2016. Fiber, Dimensions variable. Commission: The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling at The Enclave, Harlem, NY.
Dianne Smith, Jankunu Come Out, 2019. Silk flowers, pom poms, colored and sisal ribbons, Dimensions variable.
Sculpture
Dianne Smith, Hidden Beauty, 2011. Old clothing, string, rope, discarded packaging foam, Dimensions variable.
Dianne Smith, Portal, 2011. Wire hangers, rope, string, clothing, Dimensions variable.
Dianne Smith, Bounded Memories, 2009 - 2020, rope, string, canvas, discarded magazine and files, Dimensions variable.
Dianne Smith, Waste Not Want Not, 2009. Cardboard, string, clothing, pillow cases, rope, Dimensions variable.
Dianne Smith, Headdress of a Negro Princess, 2010. Rope, string, clothing, p plaster, plumbers tape,, Dimensions variable.
Photography
Dianne Smith, 39 East, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in. Dianne Smith, Dairy’s Choice, Shea Butter, Burger King, and Things, 2021.
Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, A Day Out in the Neighborhood, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Family on Lenox Avenue, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, There No More, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in. Permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Dianne Smith, Street Vendor, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Errand Day, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Market Day, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Another Sunday Outing, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.Permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Dianne Smith, Church Ladies, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Queens, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Harlem Ladies, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Lil Fellas, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Lil Man, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Mom Then and Now, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Mama, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Sunday Fun Day, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Pretty Red Dress, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Red Ensemble, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, King and Queen, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Red Cap and Roses, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
Dianne Smith, Harlem Strut, 2021. Archival digital pigment print, 20 x 20 in.
New Media
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Dianne Smith, 2020, Phenomenal Black Womanists, video 2 minutes, 44 seconds, Nordstrom, New York City.
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Dianne Smith, Go Tell It on the Mountain, 2020. Video, 7 minutes, 32 seconds. Commissioned by the National Black Theatre.
BIO
Dianne Smith’s career as a interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker spans over two decades. Smith’s solo and group exhibitions include, Uptown Triennial 2020, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Unbought & Unbossed: Reclaiming Our Vote, Go Tell It on The Mountain, 2020 National Black Theatre, Styling: Black Expression, Rebellion, and Joy Through Fashion 2020, Nordstrom, and Stuff, 2020, Barnard College Library, and I found God in Myself, 2018, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. In 2013 Smith received a Fulbright from The United States Consulate General in Guayaquil, Ecuador to work on a public art mural with local artists through the Museo Municipal de Guayaquil; Museo Arte y Ciudad.
Her collectors include, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, The Brodsky Organization, Danny Simmons, the late Cicely Tyson, Arthur Mitchell, and Maya Angelou, George Faison, Tasha Smith, and Terry McMillian. Most recently, she has been commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory for its 100 Years | 100 Women project to commemorate the 19th amendment (granting women the right to vote) 100 years after its ratification.
Smith is a Bronx native of Belizean descent. She attended the Otis College of Art and Design and, the Fashion Institute of Technology. Smith received her MFA at Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany and she currently lives and creates in Harlem, NY.
For more information: diannesmithart.com