Diane Ayott
Artist’s Statement
My painting is very complex, both in the layering of information and in the development of color relationships. It involves keen attention to the specific accrual of marks over time and their integration in the overall gestalt of each piece. From a distance, viewers may experience an overall color palette but once close to the work, small bits of distinct, painted information reveal themselves.
I use acrylic and oil paint as well as various collage materials on both paper and panel. In some cases, the repeating patterns and vibrating color allow the mark making to shimmer in space. At other times the work requires a quiet and calmer feeling. I follow the direction of my work and my intention is to express its individual clarity as completely as I can.
In my studio I explore this rich geographical area of color and bits of information as fully as possible. As a result, these pieces invite the viewer to take time, to really look, and to pause in the pleasure of the visual.
Diane Ayott, 2010
Bio
Diane Ayott, an associate professor at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998. She has exhibited extensively in the New England area and abroad. Her work is included in a number of private, contemporary collections. Ayott's recent exhibitions include those at: the Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Gallery, NYC, Wheelock College in Boston, University of Southern New Hampshire, Washington Square Galleries, NYC, OK Harris, NYC, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA Hall Space Gallery, Boston and at the Women Made Gallery in Chicago. Diane Ayott lives and works on the north shore of Boston.
| Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA – MFA in Painting and MS in Art Education | |
| The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA – Painting Diploma | |
| New England College, Henniker, NH – BA in Humanities with a Visual Arts Concentration |
| Associate Professor, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA |
| 2010 | Diction, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, NY, NY |
| 2009 | Upstream, New Work by Diane Ayott, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA |
| 2008 | Complexity: Paintings by Diane Ayott, Wheelock College, Boston, MA |
| 2006 | Moment to Moment, New England Currents, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA |
| 2005 | Defining Surface, Hall Space, Boston, MA |
| 2000 | The Paintings and Drawings of Diane Ayott, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA |
| 2000 | Particular Surfaces, New England College Art Gallery, Henniker, NH |
| 1999 | New Work, Endicott College Art Gallery, Beverly, MA |
| 1998 | Distillations, Pat Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
| 1990 | Landschaftmalerei, Gallerie M, Kassel, Germany |
| 1989 | Objekte in der Landschaft, Stadtisches Museum, Herford, Germany |
| 2010 | Pattern and Repetition,Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA; Curated by Helen Cohen. |
| 2010 | Six, Six, Six, Artists Working in Abstraction, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME |
| 2010 | Summer Exhibit, 2009, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME |
| 2009 | The Algorithms of Art, Mcininch Art Gallery, U of Southern NH, Manchester, NH |
| 2008 | Boston Color, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, NYC by Kathryn Markel |
| 2008 | No Chromophobia, OK Harris, NYC |
| 2009 | Drawings into Paintings, Hall Space Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2008 | New England New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA; curated by Kristina Durocher. |
| 2008 | Consequences of Geometry, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA; curated by David Raymond |
| 2007 | Consequences of Geometry, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; curated by Craig Bloodgood. |
| 2006 | National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association; juried by Cheryl Brutvan, Beal Curator of Contemporary Art, Boston MFA |
| 2005 | By Arrangement, Jane Deering Gallery, Annisquam, MA and Concord Art Association, Concord, MA; curated by Katherine French. |
| 2004 | Annual Juried Show, Essex Art Center. Lawrence, MA; juried by Joseph D. Ketner II. |
| 2004 | New Art '04, Kingston Gallery, Boston; juried by Anne Wilson Lloyd. |
| 2004 | Annual Small Works Exhibition, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA; juried by Dorothy Simpson Krause. |
| 2002 | New England / New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA; curated by Anja Chavez, Jurors: John Woodward, Woodward Gallery, NYC, Lisa Skrabec, Babcock Galleries, NYC and Catherine Redmond. |
| 2002 | Meditations, Memories and Explorations, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA |
| 2001 | Salon, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA |
| 2001 | Salon Redux, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston MA; both Salon Exhibits curated by Laura Donaldson |
| 2001 | What do You See? Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA |
| 2001 | Anymore, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; curated by David Borowski. |
| 2000 | Ten Contemporary Artists, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA |
| 2000 | The National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA; juried by Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. |
| 1999 | Manifest, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Visual Art, the Copley Society of Art, Boston; juried by Allison Ferris, Curator of Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Allison Kemmerer, Assistant Curator, Addison Gallery of American, Art and Linda Norden, Barbara Lee Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums. |
| 1998 | The Persistence of Paint, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA; juried by Nina Nielsen, owner of the Nielsen Gallery and Magdelena Campos-Pons, Bunting Fellow and Faculty Member at Boston's Museum School. |
| 1996 | 144 Square Inch Exhibition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT; juried by Robert Reed. |
| 1996 | Metaphor for the 20th Century; Personal Perspectives, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI; juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Curator, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. |
| 1989 | Die Bruderkirche, Kassel, Germany; juried by Professor Werner Kausch. |
| 2009 | Portfolio, Montserrat College of Art |
| 2008 | Studio Visit Magazine, Juried by Carl Belz, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA |
| 2006 | DIANE AYOTT: DEFINING SURFACE, Art New England, Feb. - March issue, by Kristen I. Pounds |
| 2003 | The Language of Abstraction, Diane Ayott, Sextant, The Journal of Salem State College, Fall/Spring |
| 2003 | Profile - Diane Ayott, Today, New England College Journal, Spring |
| 2009 | Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH |
| 2008 | Merrimack College, North Andover, MA |
| 2008 | Wheelock College, Boston |
| 2008 | Chester College of New England, Chester, NH |
“Outsider In”
40" x 38" oil on panel
