ABOUT DIANE PALLEY     
            

Click for Exhibits, Publications, Installations, Honors, Artist-in-Residencies

Photograph by Carrie Herz www.caryherz.com

Diane Palley was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1949 and has been an artist throughout her life, experimenting with various media including printmaking, illustration, papercutting, ceramics and fabrics. While living in Boston, she learned papercutting from two of the masters of this traditional folkart: Joahnn and Martin Farren. Using this intricate technique, Diane has created hundreds of original papercut images; illustrated books, posters and CD covers; designed arks, panels, and banners for architectural projects; and displayed her work in over fifty national exhibitions. She has lived in New Mexico for much of her life, and creates ceramic tiles, mezuzot, amulets, ceremonial objects and murals combining Jewish images with southwestern and Chinese ceramic techniques.  She is now translating her papercut images to etched and silkscreened glass for institutions around the country.

In2005, Diane Palley created two silk-screened/etched panels for the new Goodson Chapel at the Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. She was a Finalist in the 2000 Philip & Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize Competition, and was awarded the American Institute of Architects Excellence in Religious Art Award in 1994 and the Massachusetts Fellowship in Folkart in 1989. 

She accepts commissions for papercuts, prints, fabric art, ceramic projects and architectural design from individuals and institutions, and offers silkscreen, lithograph and digital reproductions of her papercuts.