Your name
Diane Meyer
Your Age
29
Website
Diane Meyer
Where are you from
New Jersey
Where do you live now?
Brooklyn
What's your day job?
Adjunct Teaching
Artist's Statement
Using photography as my primary medium, I have long been interested in American mythos, humor, narrative clichés, and cinematic traditions that become restaged in unexpected ways. I often meld popular culture with historical inquiry, choosing to blur distinctions between reality and fiction. I often choose a theme and create an installation involving many bodies of work on that theme which play off and create a dialogue with one another. While my practice is rooted in photography, I use a wide range of other mediums and strategies in my work, including sculpture and installation. The first two images that I have submitted are from a recent project in which I created and photographed sculptural installations that I built in the Sleeper Car of a cross-country train. The third image is from a recent project that explores the American West as invented space and the means in which mythology displaces history.
Which artists inspire you? (Not necessarily photographers.)
Sophie Calle, Fischli and Weiss, Tom Friedman, Marcel Duchamp, Grandma Moses
Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously
I'm not sure exactly... Although, when I was little, my older brother received a polaroid camera for Christmas one year, and I remember sneaking into his room a lot to use it, and building a secret stash of photos.
What kind of camera do you use?
Mamiya 7
What's your favorite movie?
Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton.
Although, The Searchers by John Ford and Way Down East by DW Griffith are pretty high up there also...
What's your Favorite Museum?
The Museum of Juraissic Technology
What's the last CD you listened to?
Blue Screen Life by Pinback
What are you reading now?
The History of Forgetting by Norman Klein.
What's your favorite season?
Fall, especially late September and early October.
Favorite color?
Burgundy... or maybe Brown... but a really dark Brown...