Artist Diana Krevsky studied in New York during the hey-day of Pop Art of the 1960s, receiving a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The extremely valuable experience and education expanded her world of what art could be. Yet, her move to Nashville, Tennessee, was what gave freedom to find a uniquely personal approach to painting. In 1972, she settled in California’s Bay Area, and continues to work at her Hunters Point Shipyard art studio in San Francisco.
A variety of her paintings and sculptural works have appeared in many galleries and art exhibitions in the Bay Area, as well as a solo show at the San Jose Museum of Art. Many of her art works are part of numerous private collections, including a local museum and university.
Past important international exhibits showing humorous sculptural paintings were held at the Humour Pavilion in Montreal and a private gallery collection in Seoul, Korea. More recently, her collage and photography were exhibited in Costa Rica and India.
Humor and whimsy are distinctive features of Diana Krevsky’s socio-political art commentary. Her work seeks the “universal” of the absurd and extreme cultural excesses found in the “ordinary”.
EDUCATION
1964 B.F.A. with honors, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1970 – 71 Peabody College (Vanderbilt), Nashville, Tennessee
Graduate painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Show and Tell, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA
1992 University of California, Science Exhibit Hall, San Francisco
1989 Shaklee Building, San Francisco
1983 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
1980 Painted Installation Series, 80 Langton Street, San Franscisco
1979 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1977 International Pavilion of Humour, Montreal, Quebec
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 2121 ArtSpace Inaugural Invitational, San Francisco
2023 PINT SIZE, Small Scale Assemblage, San Francisco Transmission Gallery
2022 Urban Landscape Exhibit, and, On the Strait Invitational Exhibit, Epperson Gallery, Crockett
2022 Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara
2021 Altered and Reimagined— 10 Bay Area Assemblage & Collage Artists, Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville
2019 Our Thoughts and Prayers Are With You—Gun Violence and its Aftermath, Carl
Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel
2019 Dirty Money, Museo de Pobre, Costa Rica & IPS Art Academy, Indore, India
2018 Collage, The Cutting Edge, Richmond Art Center
2018 Wonder Women, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2017 SweetNLow: International Juried Show of Cute, The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
2016 The Art of theToy: Wild, Whimsical, and Magical, Arts Benicia
2014 & 2016 Politically Charged! Blue Line Arts Gallery, Roseville
2012 20th Anniversary Show, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
2012 Seeing Solano, Vacaville Museum and O’Rourke Library Art Gallery, Benicia
2010 Text &-o Figura, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2010 9 Annual de Grafica Contemporanea, Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica
2009 Celebrating Vallejo’s Urban Forest, Vallejo Historical Naval Museum
2009 US Forest Service Pacific SW Regional Headquarters, Vallejo
2009 RED: Berkeley Art Center Members Showcase, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2008 Ten Artists: Ten Points of View, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
2005 Artists for Peace: Ghosts of Little Boy,” National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco
2004 In The Shadow, A Culture of Fear and Violence, Addison Street Windows Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 Bay Area Art V, Napa Valley College Art Gallery, Napa
2002 Made of Wood, Fairfield Arts Center Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2002 Woodward: Keepers of the Wood,” Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
2001 Work of 35 Bay Area Fiber Artists, Hayward Arts Council Gallery, Hayward, CA
2000 Personal Visions/ Narrative Art, Napa Valley College Art Gallery, Napa
1999 Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma, Santa Rosa
1999 Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
1998 Two Artists: Hazelwood & Krevsky, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo
1995 Art, The Great American Pastime, George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco
1994 Shipyard Artists Spring Exhibit, Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco
1992 Sustenance, Opts Art Gallery, San Francisco
1991 Celebrations & Ceremonies, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle
1990 Six Artists from Hunters Point, San Francisco Food Business Center, San Francisco
Zephyr Gallery, San Francisco
1989 Snapshots, Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz
Small Works, The Art Store Gallery, San Francisco
1986 The Figure: Body and Soul, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont
1985 Humor and Satire: Fresh Perspectives-Personal Parody, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1984 Social Idioms, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
1983 Narratives-Dreams-Realities, Sun Gallery, Hayward
1982 Figurative Sculpture, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
1981-82 Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto
1980 Four Painters, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco
1978 Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco
1971 Peabody College Gallery, Nashville
1970 Parthenon Gallery, Nashville
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Collage, ETC., Gallery 21ten, Sacramento; Gems II, Arts Benicia
2012 Creative Reuse Show, ARC Gallery, San Francisco
2011 Figurative Works, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton
1994 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
1992 East Bay Fire Art Project, Oakland
Selections from the ’91 San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco
1989 Bay Arts ’89, The Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont
1987 Beyond Power, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1985 Bay Arts ’85, The Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont
1983 Disarmament Show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1977 California Women Artists, Sacramento
1969 Ninth – Tennessee All-State Artists Exhibit
AWARDS
2013 Honorable Mention National Photography Show, Marin MOCA
1994 BACA Juror Award, Mixed Media, 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1993 Discovery, Art of California Magazine Silver Award, Mixed Media
1979-80 Public Art, NEA-NAP Regional Visual Arts Project Grant, “Window Shoppers,” a
painted installation/tableau in a store window on Clement Street, San Francisco;
funded by The National Endowment for the Arts and The San Francisco Art
Commission
1979 Merit for Painting, San Francisco Arts Festival