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Diana Blackwell is a self-taught artist in Berkeley. She works in many media, including charcoal, acrylics, papier mache, collage, block printing, monoprinting, and digital photography. Her subjects include abstractions and imaginary scenes, as well as all the traditional foci of representation: human figures and portraits, still life, landscape, and religious, especially Christian, iconography.
Blackwell's colorful, happy-looking monoprints are a regular feature at Mignonne Décor in Berkeley. Her online gallery is www.zhibit.org/diana_blackwell. She has shown work in California, Massachussetts, Missouri, and Nebraska. Her digital photography can be seen at www.flickr.com/diana_blackwell.
Blackwell has worked as an artists' model for nineteen years, including eight years as the staff model at Columbia College (Columbia, MO) and eleven years as a full-time member of the Bay Area Models Guild. Blackwell is also a Guild administrator and created the Guild's current website www.bayareamodelsguild.org. She also created the world's only website about late British character actor James Booth, www.jamesbooth.org. Blackwell is a founding member of the dark electronic band Odor of Pears. She has published feature articles and reviews in Matter, Trouser Press, The Women's Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Vegetarian Times, The Animals' Agenda, and many others. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.