Photo Credit: Dana Spaeth
Education
2004
Work Study
Kuno Shibori Dyeworks
Arimatsu, Japan
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
Bio
Diane DallasKidd was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University with a BFA in Textile Art. She traveled to Japan to continue studies under Tsuyoshi Kuno, a 4th generation master dyer who adapted centuries old dyeing techniques to create new material for avant-garde designers such as Issey Miyake and for productions such as Cirque du Soleil. Learning from artists who push creative boundaries while honoring traditional process continues to influence DallasKidd’s own artwork.
DallasKidd is continually motivated to draw something new and unexpected from the medium with a focus on process, whether it is folding paper to delineate planes of space in her paintings on wood or painting singular threads and suspending them to create ethereal forms. She often begins her exploration with a feeling more so than a fixed outcome in mind. Her resulting works are textural and dimensional, echoing patterns and shapes found in the natural and urban landscape.
Current Program
Facility Artist
at 1240 Minnesota Street Studios
2019
Painted Threads, Solo Show
Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, CA
48 Pillars
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Thread That Binds Us
Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
Art Market San Francisco
Michelle Bello Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2018
New Growth
Palette Gallery, San Francisco, CA
After Dark
Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Art Market San Francisco
Michelle Bello Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Windows and Waterfalls
Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Material Matters
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Cracking Nutshells
DZINE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Tracks and Echoes
DZINE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Almost Black and White
The Curator Gallery, New York, NY
WILD
Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Renegade Fiber
MARIN Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2016
Scrap Art Show
Reclaimed: Elevating the Art of Reuse,
SFArtsEd Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
By Hand
Coker Gallery, Blue Line Arts
Roseville, CA
2015
Fiber Arts VII
International Juried Exhibition
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Sebastopol, CA
Texture, can you feel it?
Ohanlon Center for the Arts
Mill Valley, CA
Naught
Gensler, Architecture + Design
San Francisco, CA
2011
The Art of Fiber
Workhouse Art Center
Lorton, VA
2008
Materialistic, Whitney Gallery
Savannah, GA
2004
Japan Creation Trade Fair
Tokyo, Japan