Diane Farris
Diane Farris is an artist/photographer working in Gainesville, Florida. Her work has been widely collected and published, with public commissions as noted below. She has worked with the themes of home, nature, connection and sustainability. These themes come together in images of the Florida prairie and its Sandhill Cranes. Volumes explores a long standing interest in books and book objects. (See Publications below and the Books Portfolio.) A current series, Nature at the Gate, circles back into the woods near home.
Selected Public Collections:
Princeton University – The Art Museum
Center for Creative Photography – Tucson
The High Museum – Atlanta
The University of Miami, Special Collections at the Otto G. Richter Library
The Haverford College Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts – Houston
Museum of Contemporary Photography – Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art and The Jacksonville Art Museum – Jacksonville
The Harn Museum – The University of Florida
Cincinnati Art Museum
New Orleans Museum of Art
The Georgia Museum of Art – Athens
University of North Florida – Jacksonville
The Polaroid Collection – Boston
Selected Exhibitions:
The Collector’s Eye - The Appleton Museum - group - 2024
In the Light of the Present – Palm Beach Photographic Museum – two person – 2019
Musing Women – Florida State College, Jacksonville – 2019
La Luce del Presente, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia – solo – September, 2018 – 2019
Visuals for Ars Braemia, Basel – solo – September, 2018
The Hèctor Gallery, Gainesville, Florida – solo – 2017
The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2016
Villino Volterra, Ariccia, Italy – solo – 2015
Water Colors Everything, Gainesville – 2014
University of North Florida, Jacksonville – 2013
The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, group – 2012
Thornebrook Gallery, Gainesville – 2012, 2013
R.Roberts Gallery, Jacksonville – 2010
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville – 2010
Stuhr Museum, Nebraska – two person – 2009
Turner Center, Valdosta, solo – 2009
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, two person – 2008-9
Carnegie Center, Michigan – solo – March, 2008
Images Gallery, Chicago , two person – November, 2007
Museum of Natural History, Gainesville – solo – In the Open: Sandhill Crane Studies – December, 2006
Palm Beach Photographic Museum, solo – August, 2005 – In the Open
Public Commissions:
University of Florida Orthopaedic Institute – suite of Sandhill Crane photographs and Thresholds into Healing, 2019
University of Nebraska
Florida Atlantic University – suite of twenty prints for the new computer center.
Shands Hospital – a suite of prints from In Dolphin Time in the family section.
Selected Publications:
Farris, Diane – Dream Images: a portfolio, 2012
Farris, Diane – Type Tales: Understanding and Celebrating Diversity, CAPT, 2000.
Farris, Diane – In Dolphin Time, Macmillan, 1994
Farris, Diane and Mary Taylor, Classic Vegetarian Series and EcoKitchen column in Elephant Magazine