Diana Cherbuliez
Crucial to her development as an artist, Diana Cherbuliez has been engaged in the ever-ongoing task of constructing her own home and studio through a process of trial and error since 1994, frequently from collected and salvaged materials. Photographs of this work in progress are the source for machine-embroidered and appliquéd quilt squares constructed from the artist’s well-worn work clothes. Each is a component of Homemaker, which, as with the process of building her home itself, remains in progress.
Cherbuliez received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985 and an M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York in 1993. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland, Maine; Theodore:Art in Brooklyn; Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine; the Schlitkamp Gallery at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; June Fitzpatrick in Portland, Maine; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine. Cherbuliez has attended residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, and the Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California. She is the recipient of grants from the Maine …
Crucial to her development as an artist, Diana Cherbuliez has been engaged in the ever-ongoing task of constructing her own home and studio through a process of trial and error since 1994, frequently from collected and salvaged materials. Photographs of this work in progress are the source for machine-embroidered and appliquéd quilt squares constructed from the artist’s well-worn work clothes. Each is a component of Homemaker, which, as with the process of building her home itself, remains in progress.
Cherbuliez received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985 and an M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York in 1993. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland, Maine; Theodore:Art in Brooklyn; Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine; the Schlitkamp Gallery at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; June Fitzpatrick in Portland, Maine; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine. Cherbuliez has attended residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, and the Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California. She is the recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission (Good Idea grant and Percent for Arts grant). She lives and works in Vinalhaven, Maine.
Courtesy of Grant Wahlquist Gallery
