DIANA BEHL
Date of Birth: 1979

My quotidian experiences serve as catalysts for the work I create: the routes I walk, the storefronts and signs passed on these routes, people encountered, people remembered, books read, magazines picked up on shelves, new music siphoned. Also, customary objects used to prepare meals, the walls that hold up the roof above the places where I rest, where I create, or where I've traveled all provide subject matter. Memory plays a crucial role as an impetus to record.

The work develops into a collection of forms embodying the information I accumulate, what might be perceived as mundane, banal. It displays a playful interpretation or reinvention of the everyday, and what I deem as noteworthy occurrences within the routine. The images are catalogues of a personal visual vocabulary, but they are also, simultaneously, formal investigations.

Biography

Diana Behl attended Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio where she earned a B.F.A. in graphic design and printmaking in 2001. Behl received her M.A. in printmaking in 2004 and her M.F.A. in printmaking and drawing in 2005 from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. From 2005 to 2006, she taught drawing and printmaking as a visiting assistant professor at South Dakota State University.

Behl recently exhibited works on paper at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York, NY during the 2005 Southern Graphics Council conference, and in the 2005 New American Paintings MFA Annual, New York, NY.