Book Cover Image, No Solid Ground by Patricia Diart © Patricia Diart 2024
September 4, 2024
Amie Potsic will interview Patricia Diart to discuss her new book, "No Solid Ground" awarded to her through the Kite Prize for Contemporary Art.
© Patricia Diart, Image from performance/kneel-in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, September 30th. Photograph by Reuben Radding
Patricia Diart has presented performances, installations, and conceptual works nationally and internationally since 2001. She has exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area at venues including The Lab, New Langton Arts, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She received her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and did her undergraduate work at Moore College of Art and Design. The San Francisco Chronicle and The Star Tribune, Minneapolis published articles about her current artwork, The Cape, in 2021 and 2022. Surreptitiously, she has performed The Cape at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Seattle Asian Art Museum, and SFMOMA among other established museums. Internationally, Diart has performed in Havana, Cuba, and exhibited in Berlin and Saarbrücken, Germany as well as in Slovenia. She has also received awards from the Goethe Institute and the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2021, her writing was selected by Kim Shuck, Poet Laureate, for Poem of the Day presented by the San Francisco Public Library. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and was The Kite Prize winner in 2023.
PATRICIA DIART: NO SOLID GROUND
No Solid Ground by Patricia Diart was published by Amie Potsic Art Advisory and Kite Press as Diart's award for winning the Kite Prize for Contemporary Art in 2023.
An accomplished artist and writer, Diart was born in France, grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and lives in San Francisco, California. No Solid Ground by Patricia Diart is a journey through the artistic endeavors of the daring performance artist throughout her career and is published as an award for the artist winning the 2023 Kite Prize for Contemporary Art. The monograph guides us through a series of narratives and public interactions that explore physical endurance and cultural turning points. Outraged by the murder of George Floyd and feeling kinship with the Black Lives Matter and Me-Too movements, Diart was compelled to face her own treacherous experience with violence and racism. Sharing her personal story of police brutality, Diart provokes and questions the myriad institutions of power that turn a blind eye to the callous methods of police enforcement. Through daring performance and examinations of the absurd, Patricia Diart’s oeuvre elicits joy, humor, and heartbreak. Her artistic practice utilizes a variety of approaches including photography, video, sculpture, performance, writing, and animation. As an urban flaneur, documentarian, and performance artist, Diart is driven by the desire to connect with the social fabric of our world while embracing the absurdity of human existence. Her work is an ongoing vacillation between destruction and repair, love and loss, amusement and outrage. We are invited to connect with humanity vicariously through her profound, fumbling, and futile attempts at intimacy.
© Patricia Diart, Image from performance/kneel-in at the California’s state capital building, Sacramento, CA, August 17th. Photograph by Chris Tuite
© Patricia Diart, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 30th, 2021, NY, NY. Photograph by Reuben Radding
© Patricia Diart, Baltimore Circuit Court, Baltimore, MD, October 6th, 2022, Photograph by Larry Cohen
#200004253621 , 2436 Great Highway, Use: Apartments, Demolished: February, 2001
© Patricia Diart 2001
Untitled photograph from The Death of Kamikaze Clayton, Pinhole camera, 2001, © Patricia Diart 2001
The Kite Prize for Contemporary Art Award, an international visual art award, was established to recognize innovative visual artists and creatives who demonstrate exceptional commitment to their work. The award is juried by Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC choosing a winning artist based on artistic excellence, creative accomplishment, and cultural significance. There will be three Kite Prize Awardees and Artists Selected for the Virtual Merit Exhibition in addition to the chosen Grand Prize Winner. For any questions about the application process, please email info@amiepotsicartadvisory.com.
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To learn more about Patricia Diart’s artwork, visit her website.
Banner image: © Patricia Diart, Image from performance/kneel-in at Central Police Station, February 8th, 2021. Photograph by Chris Tuite