Diana Thater
b. 1962
Since the early 1990s, Diana Thater has created pioneering film, video, and installation-based works. Her primary emphasis is on the tension between the natural environment and mediated reality, and by extension, between tamed and wild, and science and magic. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior, mathematics, chess, and sociology, her evocative and sometimes near-abstract works interact with their surroundings to create an intricate relationship between time-based and spatial dimensions. She frequently transforms the exhibition venue into a hybrid space between sculpture and architecture, using color and light alongside her installations. Born in 1962 in San Francisco, Thater studied Art History at New York University, before receiving her M.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Thater’s recent works are currently on view at the San Jose Museum of Art in California as part of the museum’s Beta Space exhibition series (through September 13, 2015). In the fall of 2015, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host a mid-career survey of Thater’s work, which will coincide with an installation at the Aspen Art Mus…
Films