Diane Warner-Wang American, b. 1956

Restlessness and exploration is a theme in Diane Warner-Wang’s life and in her art. There’s a clear trajectory and connection in Diane’s call to biotech and the direction of her painting. Ten years ago, when she studied plein air technique and figurative drawing with Jim Smyth and Brigitte Curt she knew the analytical, thinking foundation they were providing was solid. But it was Symth’s figurative gesture drawing classes - quick sketches of the human form sometimes drawn with stick and ink - that gave Diane the freedom to trust her instincts and intuition. Further study with Melinda Cootsona, Ovanes Berberian and Oliver Sin supported her exploration around maintaining the equilibrium between the analytical mind and creative impulse. This work brought her to abstraction - and in particular figurative abstraction.   

Born in Texas, she spent her childhood in Southern California and as a young woman lived for a time in Iran. Diane, now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a masters degree in experimental psychology from Southern Methodist University. With a deep interest in statistics, programming and network engineering, Diane’s primary career was spent in the technology sector as a Senior Network Engineer for Worldcom/British Telecom/MCI. In midlife she changed course, returned to school and after training moved into biotech as a Research Associate at Diagnostics for the Real World. Diane Warner-Wang’s paintings can be found in collections across the United States and in Europe and the U.K. Her work has received numerous awards in exhibits at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, NUMU of Los Gatos’ Greater Bay Area Open, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and The Salon at Triton Museum in Santa Clara, California. She is regularly juried into exhibits with Artist Alliance, art-fluent, the California Art Club (CAC), SFVACC/SCORE in Los Angeles and the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California.