Diane Salamon

 

Current and Upcoming Exhibits

March 2009, Solo Exhibition at Leslie Powell Gallery and Foundation, 620 SW D. Ave., Lawton, Oklahoma

May 2009, Solo Exhibition at the Performing Arts Center Gallery, 3rd & Cincinnati Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

Solo Exhibitions

"Oklahoma in Abstract", Centennial Exhibit, Oklahoma State Capitol, November 2006 - January 2007
"Absolutely Abstract", Color Connection Gallery, Tulsa, OK October 2007
"Driven to Abstraction", Color Connection Gallery, Tulsa, OK 2003
"Out of the Box", Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK 2002
"The Family Down the Street", Color Connection Gallery, Tulsa, OK 1999

Previous Exhibits

Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition 12 X 12, OKC, OK, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Arizona Aqueous, Tubac, AZ , 2000
Art After Hours, Stinchcomb Mansion, Broken Arrow, OK, 2008
Driven to Abstraction, Solo Exhibition, Color Connection Gallery, 2003
The Coyote, Chicago, IL, 1999
Expressions in Wood, two person show, Color Connection Gallery, 2002
The Family Down the Street, Solo Exhibition, Color Connection Gallery, 1999
Friends of the Frankfort Public Library Invitational Exhibit, Frankfort, IN, 1997
Gilcrease Museum Portrait Exhibit, Tulsa, OK, 2000
Gilcrease Museum Miniature Exhibit, Tulsa, OK, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004
Gillies Art Show, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, 1999, 1997
Helen Hines: Model as Artist, Artist as Model, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 1999
Hillsborough. NC National Juried Exhibit, 1993
Humanity Three Ways, three person show, Color Connection Gallery, 2000
Individual Artists of Oklahoma Mixed Media Exhibit, Oklahoma City, OK, 2000, 1998
Lafayette Art Association, National Juried Exhibition, Lafayette, LA, 2000
Mayfest Invitational Gallery, Tulsa, OK, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
National Collage Society Members Exhibit, Lincoln Center, New York, NY , 2003, 2002
National Watercolor Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, 2005, 2002, 2001, 1998, 1997
Not So Silent Night, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1998
Oklahoma Art Workshops Juried Exhibit, Tulsa, OK, 1999 (Winsor, Newton Award), 1997, 1992
Oklahoma Art Workshops, two woman show, Tulsa, OK, 1995
Oklahoma Biennial Juried Exhibition, 2001, 1997
Oklahoma Watercolor Association Members Exhibit, 2004 (Merit Award), 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998
Oklahoma Watercolor Association Traveling Exhibit, 2003, 1998
Out of the Box, Solo Exhibition, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, OKC, OK 2002
Philbrook Museum Festival of Trees, Tulsa, OK, 2007, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997
Philbrook Museum Plate Exhibition, Tulsa, OK 1995
Pikes Peak Watermedia VIII National Juried Exhibit, 1997
Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Aqueous Open National Juried Exhibit, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997 (Merchandise Award)
Sager Creek Art Center Juried Exhibit, Siloam Springs, AR, 1997, 1995 (money award), 1994 (money award)
Sapulpa, OK Juried Exhibition, 1992 (2nd place watercolor)
Southwestern Watercolor Society, Dallas, TX, 2001, 1998, 1997, 1994
Southwestern Watercolor Society Signature Members Exhibit, Irving, TX, 2005
Spectrum, Underground Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK 2008
Springfield Visual Arts Alliance Juried Exhibition,Springfield, MO, 1995
Tulsa Artists Coalition Form and Figure Show, Tulsa, OK, 1998
Under the Influence II City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 2008
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, 1995, 1992
Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Juried Exhibition, 2004, 1996

 

Publications

Feature Article “Lives in Art” by Stanley Marcus, Watercolor, Spring, 1997, Published by American Artist.
One of featured artists in “Creating Figurative collages” by Julia Ayres, Watercolor, Spring, 1997, published by American Artist.
One of featured artists in “Briefly Put…”,Cross Currents, July/August 1997, published by Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition.
Feature article and cover designer for Tulsa Woman, February 1999.

 

Television Interviews

November 4, 2008, KOTV Channel 6 Gilcrease Art in Miniature Interview
March 7, 2008, OklaTravel.net
October 2, 2007 www.oklatravel.net
September 8, 2006, Channel 6 for Gallery Hop, Tulsa, OK.
September 2002, Channel 6 for Gallery Hop, Tulsa, OK.
September 6, 2001, Channel 2 during Utica Art in the Square, Tulsa, OK.
March 10, 2001, Channel 8 during painting demonstration at Color Connection Gallery.
March 4, 1999, Channel 6, during opening of solo exhibit at Color Connection Gallery.
September 16, 1999, Channel 2 for opening at Color Connection Gallery.

 

Professional Organizations

Southwestern Watercolor Society, Signature Member
Oklahoma Watercolor Association, Signature Member
Tulsa Artists Guild
Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition
Individual Artists of Oklahoma
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society

 

Education

Art studies with Don Andrews, Dan Burt, Virginia Cobb, Polly Hammett, Serge
Hollerbach, Jerry Seagle, Pat San Soucie and Doug Walton, Katherine
Chang Liu, Fran Larsen, Skip Lawrence, Christopher Schink, Alex Powers

BBA in Finance, University of Texas at El Paso, graduated Magna Cum Laude

 

Special Recognition

Permanent Art Collection of the State of Oklahoma
Signature Member of the Southwestern Watercolor Society
Signature Member of the Oklahoma Watercolor Society
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Panel Speaker, 2008