Hex 13

Hex 13

Overlapping geometric linear-shapes create a complex woven composition, done in a variety of reds, greens, yellows, browns, creams, pinks, blues and purples. The overall format is vertical.

Diane Catherine Wiener was born in 1940 and grew up in in Minneapolis, MN. She received a B.A. in Art and English at the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. A teaching fellowship from Columbia University allowed her to spend four years in East Africa where she taught English Language and Literature at Marian College and Musoma College in Tanzania, and it was during her time in Africa that she met her future husband, Edwin P. Sloan. Upon their return to the United States, Sloan earned her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University in 1970. The culture shock she experienced upon her return to the U.S. served as impetus for creating a series of large oil paintings, “visual commentaries on the paradox of humanity’s materials existence and aims.” Sloan taught at the Mendocino Art Center in 1977 and from 1977-1979 at Mendocino Community College in Ukiah, California, where she was an artist-in-residence, funded by a California Arts Council Grant.
During the 1980s and 1990s Sloan “continued to expand, experiment and refine her art technique utilizing more complex imagery, conveying her fascination with ‘polarities and contradictions.’”

Sloan’s work was shown in locations including the Jaqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles and the Zara Gallery, San Francisco. Her art is part of the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Oakland Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, AZ, and J.F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California.
In addition to painting, Sloan taught art, creative writing, math, English, and guidance classes to a range of students, including the gifted, high risk, and chronically mentally ill adults. She returned to teach at MCC from 1986 -2003. She organized six art exhibits of the work of chronically mentally ill adults and published the newsletter Steps: Journeying through Mental Health Recovery. She died in 2004.

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St. Catherines University Library and Archives

May, 1980

St. Catherine University

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13 1/16 x 9 3/4 in

English

Guache Painting

2012.4