Diane Holland

We live in a technologically oriented society. Less and less importance is given to our creative and spiritual development. Mechanistic, ritualistic forms of behavior have replaced feelings and emotions, diminishing the spontaneity and joy in human experience. Our society continues to impose these models of behavior through mass-media images, in a process I call cultural imprinting.

My artwork speaks to my life experience, examining how cultural imprinting affects me, and by implication how it affects all of us. I hope to serve as a catalyst, signalling creative interplay between myself and others, participating in life at a place where cultural imprints and assumptions cannot exist. Therefore, I am interested primarily in exploring how we can create, broaden and experience ourselves as human beings at a deeper level, and thereby affect wider social change.

Los Angeles-born and based, DIANE HOLLAND received her BA (with honors) from Immaculate Heart College and her MFA from Otis Art Institute. Exhibiting internationally as a multimedia artist and performer since the 1980s, her work has been acquired by numerous collectors, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. She has recently participated in a number of exhibitions around Southern California, including the LA Art Show, the Palm Springs Art Fair, and at the Los Angeles Photographic Exhibition (PhotoLA). She was part of three shows in West Hollywood celebrating women in the arts, “At the Core,” “Hear Me,” and “AWAKEN: The Female Voice.” She also showed in “Abstract Never Is” at MuzeuMM and was included in “Fresh 2017” at the SoLA Gallery, all in Los Angeles, and in “Music For Your Eyes” at the Orange County Center of Contemporary Art in Santa Ana. Diane Holland’s work can be seen at Galerie Denis Bloch in Beverly Hills.