Location: Artspace, Lobby 
 
In this most recent series of paintings on printed fabric, Diane Feissel has allowed herself to be influenced by the printed surface on which she is working, inventing a narrative in reaction to the fabric pattern within each panel. Animals play a large role in Feissel’s narratives. She notes that they hold great potential for shape-shifting and anthropomorphism, with ever-changing identities as we humans project onto them our ideas, stories, and motivations. Animals’ identities and their concerns – truly unknown to us – can only be a product of our fabrication. Typical for Feissel, even within this small format, she explores the relationship of two and three-dimensional space, as well as the relationship and fabricated narrative between the existing print and the painting.

Feissel studied painting at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, and continued her studies through classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Studio Escalier. Feissel moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998, exhibiting work at Hang Art, The Los Gatos Art Museum, Studio Gallery, 66balmy, LIMN Gallery, and other venues. Her work was selected for the 2005 Georgetown International Fine Arts Competition at Fraser Gallery in Washington, D.C., and she was a finalist in Artist's Magazine's Annual Art Competition in both 2005 and 2006. In October 2005, Diane was one of a select group of San Francisco artists exhibiting in Paris through the Le Génie de la Bastille Invitational. In 2007 she exhibited her work internationally at Galerie Cupillard in Grenoble, France with painter Juliette Lemontey. Since relocating to Raleigh, NC in 2007, Diane has exhibited at Flanders Art Gallery, Flanders 311, Visual Art Exchange, Artspace, the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, and Morning Times Gallery.