Cathy Diamond is a painter and curator based in Queens, New York. Herabstract paintings and works on paper bring together hybrid forms suggestive of trees, plants, insects, and figures simultaneously. Different gestures of yearning, leaning, flying, and drooping found in nature are used to create a latent figurative narrative. During the Pandemic, Diamond conducted an interview for Artspiel called Artists on Coping and participated in a video Artists Talk with Gallery Gary Giordano. She began exhibiting with Flatfile Online Gallery and was chosen for Jason McCoy Gallery’s Artist Drawing Challenge IV. Upcoming exhibits include Women of Spirit Part 3 at Zurcher Gallery and Earth Matters, her curatorial project for Green Door Gallery in Brooklyn.
“This selection of paintings and works on paper were completed over the summer of 2020. I made a series of colored sketches in a little garden plot behind my house and developed those ideas in my studio which overlooks a tree-lined street. At the end of the shelter-in-place summer, I traveled to Vermont and the Adirondacks, where I continued to work in a deeper, bigger nature. Returning to Queens, I was sustained by the rural travels.
Transforming flowers, wind, and other sensations into images was something I felt I could control and nourish, against the backdrop of a drastically changed world which was wholly out of control and tragic.”