Diana Puglisi, "Third Eye Thimble (Solo-Thimble)"

Artist Statement

In my work, I dissect known forms associated with women’s work and/or sewing, such as thimbles, sewing pins, lint rollers, dresses and pincushions, to try to understand it thoroughly and in a context different from its original. I create playful scenarios and question how the arrangement and interaction of materials and forms anthropomorphizes them. Underlying stories and histories of an object's strangeness, even objects that we consider common, pique my curiosity.

Artist Bio

Diana Jean Puglisi currently lives and works in Rutherford, NJ. She is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator; Curator of Education at Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY; Co-Director at Bosscritt, a critique and curatorial club for emerging artists. In 2017, she was awarded a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship (Sculpture). In 2016, she received an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA (Beker Family Scholar & Graduate Dean Scholarship). Diana participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center (Artist Grant), Big Red & Shiny and Gallery 263. She has exhibited in venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; subSamson, Boston, MA; Mills Gallery in Boston, MA; MassART Art Museum (MAAM), Boston, MA; Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA; William Paterson University Galleries Wayne, NJ; Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center, Millville, NJ; SOIL Gallery Seattle, WA; Alfa Gallery Miami, FL; SITE: Brooklyn Gallery Brooklyn, NY.

Drawer 4- Third Eye Thimble (Solo-Thimble), iPad Drawing Archival inkjet Print, 2020, 11" x 14", $250