Austin, TX b. USA
When I started painting, I was frustrated by my inability to paint realistic images. Painting with squares allows me to paint realistically, as my images are based off of my photographs…I love the meditative state I fall into when painting one square at a time…. each square foot has 5, 184 squares. So a 2 x 3’ painting has 31,104 squares and a 4 x 5’ painting has 103, 680 squares”
Artist Ethan Diehl’s childhood passion for visual arts eventually led him to Stanford University where he met Nathan Oliveira, a painter, sculptor, and master print-maker, who helped show Ethan how to turn his color-blindness into striking expressionistic images. Interested in Chuck Close’s artistic theory of rendering photorealistic imagery through a grid system, Diehl found his more realistic style.
Education
BFA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Selected Exhibitions
Ritual: Form, Script, Gesture, Morton Fine Art's *a pop-up project, Washington, DC, 2010
Threshold, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010
Selected Publications
Art Business, December 2009
Oranges and Sardines, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008
American Art Collector, February 2008
On Campus, The University of Texas at Austin, October 2006
Art Business, September 2006
Southwest Art, January 2006
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