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Brief synopsis

Diane Fenster is a digital media artist, photographer, and illustrator. She received the Photoshop Hall of Fame recognition in 2001 in Tampa, Florida. Fenster focuses on photomontages that begin on the computer and are then printed on quality papers or canvas. She utilizes grids, handwritten aspects, and saturated color palettes. Her works have been featured in numerous exhibits, publications (including Aperture monograph Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age, Women, Art, and Technology published by MIT press, and Art of the Digital Age, and Wired), awards and lectures. She currently works at San Francisco State University as a graphic designer in the department of Science and Engineering.

Early Life

Diane Fenster is a California based artist, currently residing in Pacifica, CA. She was born in New York State but grew up in Paterson, New Jersey (1). In the early years of her life, Diane Fenster would discover at the young age of eleven that she was meant to be an artist (2). After an excursion to the Museum of Modern History, Diane’s interest in art would come into fruition by the inspiration of Joseph Cornell (2). Diane’s parents, not seeing art as a concrete use of her ability would send her to college to get a degree in Research Biology (1, 2). Once Diane reached her twenties, she would become more invested with graphic design. Having studied Biology in school, she would teach herself the ways of digital design along with photography and traditional imaging. In 1989, she would begin to use computers to create her graphic images of photo-illustration with an essence of surrealism, and would come to recognize herself as an artist (2). After Diane’s art began to gain recognition, her work would see several publications. She has since worked with the likes of Apple Inc., The Washington Post and IBM (2). Her art has also been published in the book Art of the Digital Age published by Thames and Hudson, as well as Aperture monograph Metamorphosis: Photography in The Electronic Age (3, 4).

Recognition

Her works are included in the permanent collections of University of California, San Diego and Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA (where she is one of five digital artists installed in the exhibit “The Tech Zone”). Fenster was the first artist to be inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame which was sponsored by Adobe and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. In 1996 she won first place in “Art in the Information Age”. She has been noted in numerous books and journals, some of the more renowned include; Women art and Technology edited by Judy Malloy, Art in The Digital Age edited by Bruce Wands, and Polaroid Transfers by Kathleen Carr. She has had two artist in residence positions, in 2003 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the Bytes And Pieces exhibit and in 2006 at State University Of New York, Oswego, Oswego, NY.

Associated Clients

Viking Penguin Prentice Hall Time, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Inc. Sierra Prevention Jump IBM Adobe Apple Awards: Mayor’s Choice Award, City of Concord (1991) Netscape’s Cool Site of the Day (1995) Digital Photography 95 (1995) Art in the Information Age (1996) Photoshop Hall of Fame (2001) Website: http://www.dianefenster.com

Sources

http://art.webesteem.pl/11/fenster_en.php (1) http://altpick.com/spot/fenster/fenster.php (2) http://pcnw.org/exhibitions/archive/creepshow/ (3) http://www.siggraph.org/s97/conference/ongoings/artists.html (4)

References

Wands, Bruce. “Art of the Digital Age.” (2006): 50