Carol Diehl
Encyclopedia
Carol Diehl is an American artist, art critic
and poet.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago
, Diehl attended MacMurray College
in Illinois for two years, after which she married a graduate student at Yale University
(since divorced) and moved to New Haven
(CT). Upon returning to Chicago, she began painting and was active in the art scene that flourished in Chicago in the 1970s, exhibiting her work at a number of local galleries and writing articles and reviews for The New Art Examiner
, where she became Managing Editor. Diehl moved to New York in 1976 to work as assistant to John Coplans
, then editor of Artforum
magazine.
Diehl lives in New York City and southwestern Massachusetts. She has two sons, Matt Diehl and Adam Diehl.
, Hirschl & Adler Modern, and Gary Snyder Fine Art with reviews in Art in America
, ARTnews
, New York
, and The New York Times
. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts
and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
, as well as residency fellowships to the MacDowell Colony for the Arts and the Millay Colony for the Arts
.
where she has written cover articles on Olafur Eliasson
, Christian Marclay
, Wolfgang Laib
, and Robert Irwin
, as well as numerous other features and reviews, and her writing about contemporary art has also appeared in ARTnews
, Art + Auction, Art & Antiques, New York
, Civilization, and Metropolis. Diehl has also written essays for numerous artist’s catalogues and books about artists.
(NY) from 1996–2006 and was a member of the Core Visual Arts faculty at Bennington College
(VT) from 1998-2002. She has been a visiting artist at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the University of Iowa
, Columbia College Chicago
, the Vermont Studio Center
, Vermont College of Fine Arts
, the Fine Arts Work Center
(MA), and Senior Critic in the University of Pennsylvania
Visual Arts Program.
, The Kitchen
, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, among others. Her poetry is included in the anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt and Company), winner of the 1994 National Book Award
.
Mike Glier, Lisa Corrin and Carol Diehl, Mike Glier: Along a Long Line, Hudson Hills, 2009.
Antia Shreve, Carol Diehl, John Sacret Young, Andrew Stevovich: Essential Elements, by, Hard Press Editions, 2007.
Art critic
An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...
and poet.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Diehl attended MacMurray College
MacMurray College
MacMurray College is a career-directed liberal arts college located in Jacksonville, Illinois. Its enrollment in fall 2011 was 548. It is from Springfield and from Chicago....
in Illinois for two years, after which she married a graduate student at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
(since divorced) and moved to New Haven
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
(CT). Upon returning to Chicago, she began painting and was active in the art scene that flourished in Chicago in the 1970s, exhibiting her work at a number of local galleries and writing articles and reviews for The New Art Examiner
New Art Examiner
New Art Examiner was a Chicago-based art magazine. Founded in October 1973 by Derek Guthrie and Jane Addams Allen. Publication ceased in 2002.November 2011 will see the release of Essential New Art Examiner, an Anthology of representative articles and editors...
, where she became Managing Editor. Diehl moved to New York in 1976 to work as assistant to John Coplans
John Coplans
John Coplans was a British artist. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had many exhibitions in Europe and North America...
, then editor of Artforum
Artforum
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...
magazine.
Diehl lives in New York City and southwestern Massachusetts. She has two sons, Matt Diehl and Adam Diehl.
Painting
Diehl has exhibited her work at, among others, the Sidney Janis GallerySidney Janis
Sidney Janis was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited the work of most of the emerging leaders of Abstract Expressionism, but also that of such important European artists as...
, Hirschl & Adler Modern, and Gary Snyder Fine Art with reviews in Art in America
Art in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, ARTnews
ARTnews
ARTnews is an arts magazine based in New York, founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hyde’s Weekly Art News. It is published 11 times a year.ARTnews covers all art, from ancient to Post-modernism...
, New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
, and The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts was created in conjunction the in 1971. The organization gives grants to individual artists and writers and developing arts organizations with a mission to '.'-NYFA's Programs:...
and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressionist painter and the widow of fellow painter Jackson...
, as well as residency fellowships to the MacDowell Colony for the Arts and the Millay Colony for the Arts
Millay Colony for the Arts
The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artist residency program in Austerlitz, New York. The colony offers one month residencies to visual artists, writers, poets and composers. The Millay Colony for the Arts was founded in 1973 by Norma Millay Ellis, sister of the poet Edna St...
.
Art Criticism
Diehl is a Contributing Editor to Art in AmericaArt in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
where she has written cover articles on Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research...
, Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
, Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib is a German conceptual artist working predominantly with natural materials.-Biography:Laib studied medicine in the 1970s in Tübingen...
, and Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin (artist)
Robert Irwin is an American Installation artist. He lives and works in San Diego, California.-Beginnings:Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin...
, as well as numerous other features and reviews, and her writing about contemporary art has also appeared in ARTnews
ARTnews
ARTnews is an arts magazine based in New York, founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hyde’s Weekly Art News. It is published 11 times a year.ARTnews covers all art, from ancient to Post-modernism...
, Art + Auction, Art & Antiques, New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
, Civilization, and Metropolis. Diehl has also written essays for numerous artist’s catalogues and books about artists.
Teaching
Diehl taught painting and writing in the Graduate Fine Art Program of the School of Visual ArtsSchool of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
(NY) from 1996–2006 and was a member of the Core Visual Arts faculty at Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...
(VT) from 1998-2002. She has been a visiting artist at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
, Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
, the Vermont Studio Center
Vermont Studio Center
The Vermont Studio Center is a non-profit organization located in the town of Johnson in the U.S. state of Vermont. VSC conducts the largest fine arts and writing residency program in the U.S., with a significant population of international artists in residency...
, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers four distinct graduate programs, awarding Master of Fine Arts degrees in Visual Art, Writing, Writing for Children & Young Adults and Graphic Design. The student to faculty ratio at VCFA is 4-to-1.. The faculty and alumni of VCFA have won many literary awards,...
, the Fine Arts Work Center
Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoration of the year-round vitality of the historic art...
(MA), and Senior Critic in the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
Visual Arts Program.
Poetry
In the early nineties Diehl was active in Downtown New York’s performance poetry scene and has read her work at the Nuyorican Poets CaféNuyorican Poets Café
The Nuyorican Poets Café is a non-profit organization in Alphabet City, Manhattan. It is a bastion of the Nuyorican art movement in New York City, USA, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy and theatre.-History:...
, The Kitchen
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...
, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, among others. Her poetry is included in the anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt and Company), winner of the 1994 National Book Award
National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...
.
Blog
Known for known for her clear, insightful and candid writing style, she has maintained the popular blog, Art Vent, since 2007.Books
Carter Wiseman, Ed. A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007. Essays by Joan Acocella, Michael Chabon, Carol Diehl, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Paul Moravec, Ruth Reichl, Jean Valentine, Wendy Wasserstein, Jaqueline Woodson and Kevin Young.Mike Glier, Lisa Corrin and Carol Diehl, Mike Glier: Along a Long Line, Hudson Hills, 2009.
Antia Shreve, Carol Diehl, John Sacret Young, Andrew Stevovich: Essential Elements, by, Hard Press Editions, 2007.