Diane Ayott
Biography
Diane Ayott, a resident of Massachusetts, earned a MFA in Painting and a MS in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston as well as a BA in Humanities from New England College and a Painting Diploma from The Art Institute of Boston. She has a substantive history of solo and group exhibitions to her credit and is a recipient of numerous awards. Ayott is an Associate Professor of Art Education, Foundation, and Painting at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. Her home and studio are on Boston’s North Shore.
Ayott’s geometric oil paintings involve surface, texture, color and light. The viewer is invited to explore her communication with abstraction and organic patterns through a complex layering of shapes and space. Ayott notes, “Most often, and with long period of concentrated focus, the work evolves to a point where it teeters between balance and distortion.”
Awards and Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 New England New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Consequences of Geometry, McCoy Gallery, North Andover, MA
Consequences of Geometry, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2007 Abstract & Geometric, WomanMade, Chicago, IL
National Prize Show, CAA, Cambridge, MA
2006 Moment to Moment, New England Currents, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2005 Defining Surface, Hall Space, Boston, MA
2002 Diane Ayott, Johnson Gallery, Glen Urquhart School, Beverly, MA
2000 The Paintings and Drawings of Diane Ayott, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College,
Salem, MA
Particular Surfaces, New England College Art Gallery, Henniker, NH
Personal/Pictorial, Time Warner Gallery, Lynn, MA
Diane Ayott, Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art
1999 New Work, Endicott College Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
1998 Distillations, Pat Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston, MA
1996 Layer Upon Layer, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Paintings, Johnson Gallery, Glen Urquhart School, Beverly, MA
1994 Objects in a Landscape, Johnson Gallery, GUS, Beverly, MA
1990 Landschaftmalerei, Gallerie M, Kassel, Germany
1989 Objekte in der Landschaft, Stadtisches Museum, Herford, Germany
1988 Landscape Imagery, The Corner Gallery, Salem, MA
1986 Gloucester Landscapes, Bravos Arts Gallery, Gloucester, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA,
Curated by Katherine French
National Prize Show, CAA, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Cheryl, Brutvan, Beal Curator of Contemporary Art, MFA, Boston, MA
10 – To The Power Of, Ahimsa Studio, Dorchester, MA
2005 By Arrangement, Jane Deering Gallery, Annisquam, MA
By Arrangement, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA,
Curated by Katherine French
2004 Annual Juried Show, Essex Art Center. Lawrence, MA,
Juried by Joseph D. Ketner II
Salon Exhibit, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
New Art ’04, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, Juried by Anne Wilson Lloyd
New Work, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Town & Gown, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Annual Small Works Exhibition, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA,
Juried by Dorothy Simpson Krause
Faculty Exhibition, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Lynn Creates, The Gallery at Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA, Coordinated by Sara Ashodian
North Shore Artists, Wenham Museum, Wenham, MA, Juried by Kim Radochia
Source: Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC has sourced this information from the artist. This information is solely for historical perspective and we can not guarantee the comprehensivenessor complete accuracy of this information since we did not directly comprise the historical log of the artist's shows ourselves. Exhibition information should not be a basis for purchasing artwork.
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