Diana Jean Puglisi
Diana Jean Puglisi (b. 1988, Brooklyn, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator that lives and works in Rutherford, NJ. Through sculpture, textiles and drawing, Puglisi transforms and recontextualizes objects associated with women’s work, such as thimbles, sewing pins, lint rollers, dresses and pincushions, to try to understand it thoroughly and in a context different from its original.
Puglisi graduated with an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston, MA), where she was awarded the Beker Family Scholarship and Graduate Dean Scholarship, and a BFA from William Paterson University (Wayne, NJ). She received a 2017 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship in Sculpture. She has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Big Red & Shiny, Gallery 263, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been exhibited nationally at a variety of galleries including Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), University of Arizona Joseph Gross Gallery (Tucson, AZ), Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, TN), William Paterson University Galleries (Wayne, NJ), SOIL Gallery (Seattle, WA), Alfa Gallery (Miami, FL), subSamson (Boston, MA), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA), and Kathryn Schultz Gallery (Cambridge, MA). She has been included in flat files at Deanna Evans Projects (Brooklyn, NY) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Her work has been featured by Art Uncovered Podcast, The Drawing Center (New York, NY), Big Red & Shiny (Boston, MA), and The Social Distance Art Project (London, UK).
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