About Diane

Diane Barceló is an artist whose work examines language as a bridge and a barrier to communication and as an inadequate negotiator between cultures. She is best known for her sculptural installations using words constructed from copper wire that also appear in her two-dimensional work. She recently relocated to Sacramento from Connecticut where she taught art courses and guest lectured at several colleges for over 17 years while consecutively working on grant writing, exhibitions and actively participating in the New London arts community.

Grants and fellowships that have supported her work include the Connecticut Office of Culture and Tourism (2006), Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, IPark and The Connecticut Sea Grant.

Artist Statement

The driving force in my work is to bring the physical and sensorial experience of the world into focus. Layering images with textures, materials, and words, I seek to marry the conscious realm of ideas with the innate intelligence of the skin. Working with anatomical transparencies, maps, photo fragments, copper, and clay, these collages explore the dreamlike territory of memory and nostalgic longing recalled in my father’s reminiscences of Cuba. Here I search to reconcile, the body and the land, language, and identity, the personal and the political.