Artist Name: Diana Zipeto

My folded paper paintings investigate issues of freedom and equality. The paintings express these ideals as both formidable and fragmented, and attempt to engage with them in a new way.

Starting with paper photographs, I fold the images to give them a new 3rd dimension. The ability to fold, refold, and reconfigure uncovers new meanings in familiar images. I make large paintings of the fragile paper constructions to fix transitional moments in a solid form.

As an American female raised in the 1980s, I grew up in a time when liberty and equality seemed inevitable and always advancing. My paintings question that inevitability, and look at the uncertainty and possibility in our new era.

Bio
Diana Zipeto studied painting and illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including the Ceres Gallery in New York, the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, and numerous galleries and museums across the United States. Her work is in private and public collections. In 2017, she received an artist grant from the Lowell Cultural Council to produce the exhibit, Women Looking at Women. Diana lives in Lowell, MA, and works in Lowell’s energizing artist community at Western Avenue Studios. See more of her work at www.dianazipeto.com

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Diana Zipeto Fine Art

Diana Zipeto Fine Art

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