exhibitions
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Meditations on the Passion of Christ 2016
Sinfonietta Nova, Symphonic Metamorphosis 2013
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Movement 2012
Christ Church New Brunswick, Sacred Music, Sacred Art 2012
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Inner Space 2011
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Water 2010
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Undergraduate Show 2008
Mount Saint Mary Academy, Adam and Eve 2007
about diana maye
Diana Maye received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in visual art from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012. She studied fine art privately from 2001-2007.
Diana is a performance artist and uses visual media and music together within both sacred and gallery spaces. In 2011 her senior thesis called Lavabis Me featured her own very contemporary arrangement of Allegri’s Miserere at the BFA Thesis show opening, Inner Space. Her work was featured in Sacred Music, Sacred Art 2012- a music and art collaboration- at Christ Church New Brunswick. In 2013 her Metamorphosis series was featured at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church for Sinfonietta Nova. In 2016, Diana collaborated with the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, on Meditations on the Passion of Christ where she created a series of paintings to compliment and magnify the musical offerings of the choir.
Diana began studying art at the age of 11 in the private studio of Nilufar Rahman. She continued to study with Ms. Rahman through the age of 18. Though Diana feels that her education at Rutgers was vital to her growth as an artist, her formative years in private study with Ms. Rahman were where she learned masterful technique and how to create from the spirit. And, it was the perspective of creating from the heart and spirit that catalyzed Diana to explore a deeper level of study: the works of the Great Masters.
EARLY EXPLORATION
In secret, and usually in the solitude of the small hours of the night, Diana studied Renaissance masterworks and Byzantine iconography from ages 15-18.
It was during these late nights in her private chamber that she learned to integrate the depth and complexity of draftsmanship with passion and inspiration to express wonderment in all its purity and innocence.
METAMORPHOSIS
It was copying masterworks that made Diana get in touch with her own passion, which is a theme in all of her works, including pieces not in the Renaissance style.
THE ARTIST
In Diana's latest projects, Diana creates from and inner world of spirit. Inspiration comes to her like holograms in the space of her head. They They are not of her computing mind and they are not visual extensions of any 3D image.