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About
Diana Tremaine was born in 1964 in New York City. There, influenced by the modern art collection of her Great Aunt and Uncle Burton and Emily Tremaine, her preference for a contemporary aesthetic developed. After getting her Fine Arts degree at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1988, Tremaine lived in Los Angeles for 14 years where she taught painting and drawing at Taft College and Chino’s Men’s State Prison. In 1999, in search of more space and greater access to the natural world that had become a great source of inspiration for her work, Tremaine moved to Bozeman, Montana where she now lives and works with her husband and daughter.
In 2018, Tremaine was commissioned by Keeneland to paint retiring race horse champion Lady Eli. Keeneland, recognized globally as the premier Thoroughbred auction house and a world-class race track, invited Tremaine to come meet the infamous Lady Eli and spend a week on their grounds in the Artist Cottage painting the superstar. The painting was completed during the 2018 Breeder’s Cup at Churchill Downs and presented to her then owner Sol Kumin.
In addition to her inclusion in numerous gallery exhibits across the country, Tremaine’s work resides in public and private collections from Japan to Switzerland to exclusive mountain resort areas.
Diana Tremaine’s paintings are inspired by the natural world around her and informed by her own life’s experiences. With her subjects – horses, birds, wildlife, family – she strives to elevate the beauty of a moment. With her process – building up and breaking down over and over – she communicates the complexity and struggle that is inherent in all beauty. Regardless of “subject”, Tremaine creates intentional surface tension, layering opaque paint over transparent paint, juxtaposing clean, crisp edges with subconscious mark making and chaos, allowing subjective pops of color to float gracefully above deeper discord, in order to allude to differing layers and forms of reality. Quietude often juxtaposes chaos. More highly resolved passages counter raw, abstracted passages. Her process is never premeditated but rather one of constant response, with each mark informing the next. Over completion could signal the need for breakdown, or vice-versa. In this way, the process itself, the battle between composure and chaos, between what is known and what is unknown, becomes the ultimate “subject”.
“Ultimately I explore the relationship between the real and the intangible in ways that entice me back to the studio. The conflict of image and abstraction, light and yearning, equal parts joy and loss, is the most powerful form of expression for me.”
– Diana Tremaine
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Palimpsest, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2015 Ties that Bind, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2013 Impulsion, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2010 Canidae, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2008 Power and Grace, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2006 Exposures, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2003 Eye of the Beholder, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
1999 Camouflage, Ojala Fine Art, Echo Park, CA
1992 Diana Tremaine New Paintings, Fine Art Studio, Noho, NY
1992 Diana Tremaine New Paintings, Bistro 45, Pasadena, CA
1992 Diana Tremaine New Paintings, Rose Cafe, Venice, CA
1991 L.A. Nicola, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Rosebud, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 North x Northwest, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2019 Air, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2019 Earth & Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2018 Dreamland, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2017 Small Works, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2017 Long Summer Shadow, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2016 Vision: An Artist’s Perspective, Kaleid Gallery, San Jose, CA
2015 New Artists, Atelier Gallery, Charleston, SC
2015 Wildlife Show, Atelier Gallery, Charleston, SC
2015 Voices, online exhibit sponsored by Unitewomen.org and Women’s Caucus for Art
2014 Earth & Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2012 New Paintings, Two Moon Gallery, Nashville, TN
2012 America: Now and Here, Eric Fischl juror, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
2012 Art From Life: The Human Form, Livingston Center for Art and Culture, Livingston, MT
2011 New Paintings, Two Moon Gallery, Nashville, TN
2010 Mother Nature, Two Moon Gallery, Nashville, TN
2010 MORart, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
2004 Good Enough to Eat, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
2003 Warm, ADM Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Wiford & Vogt, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Visions West Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2001 Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT
2000 Silver Winds Gallery, Pinos Altos, NM
1998 Made in California, City of Brea Civic Center, Brea, CA
1995 Original Works on Paper, Westside Art Forum, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Chair-ity, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1992 In the Garden, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
Selected Public Collections
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Burger Up Restaurant, Nashville, TN
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Selected Private Collections
Arthur Blank, Atlanta, GA
Vigil Shutze, Atlanta, GA
David Davenport, Atlanta, GA
Lauren and Jill Bough, Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, MT
Robert and Julie Luxembourg, Geneva, Switzerland
Greg and Dianne Branch, Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, MT
Frank and Kristen Kern, Tokyo, Japan
Bill and Nan Johnson, Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, MT
Education
1986 B.A. Fine Art, Painting, University of California, Los Angeles
