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DIANE SCHROEDER • Profile
Diane Schroeder majored in art with a strong focus in interior design at the University of Nebraska. After graduating with a BFA in 1969, Diane chose a career in the design field, but she never abandoned her love for her art. Whether it was three dimensional art interpreted from clients’ needs and desires, or two dimensional painting exploring abstractions interpreted from subtle adventures, both seem to influence each other.
Since her early adult years of painting, Diane has moved from a formal application of oil on canvas, to spontaneous palate of oil and mixed media on paper. Her pieces abstractly suggest landscape shapes and textures and the translucencies and reflections of atmospheric colors. With the exploration of contrast and contradiction, Diane introduced collage as an exciting additional dimension to her work and she continues to define and refine detail and strength.
While Diane enjoyed a long, successful interior design career for national and international commercial interior architectural firms, she was represented by a Chicago gallery for some time, and continued to build her painting career under the signature, D. Schumacher.
In 2007, Diane made a decision to leave the commercial design profession to focus on her art. Her artist signature is now D. Schroeder. Her work can be found in the collections of major corporations and private residencies.DIANE SCHROEDER • Statement
Contrast and Contradiction: It has been my experience that life is a subtle composition of contradictions. It is only by contrast of the absurd that the rational makes sense, and it is by the contrast of dark that there is light. The expression of the observations of life has evolved into several varieties of work.
The contradiction that oil and water do not mix, and the theory that spilled oil is not easily controlled, is the very basis of my working media. Paper is a water based material and usually has water based media applied to it. It is because "oil and water do not mix," that I find oil, and oil based media, the perfect application on paper. I am in control of the applied materials rather than the properties of the paper demanding an opinion on the control and ultimately, the result.
While there are highs contrasted by low periods of life, there are subtleties of monochromatic colors contrasted by shiny and dull, transparency and opaque, rough and smooth, undefined shapes and defined shapes or lines. These form an overall composition or group of compositions in an undisturbed space of time. While not always recognized at the moment of happening, they leave a lasting impression to be continually reinterpreted and related.
Even with high contrast, subtleties are woven into the overall picture as the observation continues. The collage elements are saved pieces of things that have touched my life. The mixed media of pencil, craypas, charcoal, metallic ink, gold leaf, and foil, are the results of further exploration of materials that should not work together — but do.
Fear is contrasted by knowledge. Knowledge is gained by exploration.
DIANE SCHROEDER • Biography
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011
“American Women Artists National Awards Exhibit”, Atlanta, Georgia
“ArtPrize”, International Exhibit, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Anatomically Correct”, Highland Park, Illinois
2010
“Jesse Home Elements; 5 Chicago Women, Specializing in Abstract Impressionism”, Chicago, Illinois
“Solo Exhibition”, Gallery 175, Chicago, Illinois
“Solo Exhibition”, Tasting Room, Chicago, Illinois
“ArtPrize”, International Exhibit, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Anatomically Correct”, Highland Park, Illinois
2009
“ArtPrize”, International Exhibit, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Anatomically Correct”, Highland Park, Illinois
2008
“Lineart International Exhibit”, Gent, Belgium
“Artists Project National Exhibit”, Chicago, Illinois
1994
“Solo Exhibition”, Corporate Art Source Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1992
“Solo Exhibition”, Corporate Art Source Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1991
“Solo Exhibition”, Corporate Art Source Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990
“Solo Exhibition”, Corporate Art Source Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
PUBLICATIONS
2011
Pubblicazione XXSECOLO/1 by Domenico Amoroso & Silvia Franchi, one of 15 featured artists
2008
Chicago Social Magazine: 3 pages of a 6 page article on a DIFFFA charity event
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
LaFontsee Galleries, Grand Rapids, MichiganVis-à-vis Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
