Diane Pfister is an American artist and art lecturer whose work was first recognized in London, England, and other territories of the United Kingdom.
Working principally in oils, her series include "Toys" (in which she explored the "residual power" of the "sacred geometry" of playthings important to her in childhood); "Scars" (a series of nude body studies etched with obscure, lost French dialect calligraphy); "Abstract Locations" (an examination of "how technology has altered traditional notions of viewing our environment"... "a world unknown to us a century ago"); and "End Papers" ("dedicated to the transient beauty of the printed book... fast becoming the dinosaur of our generation").
Since relocating with her family to her native country in 2006, Pfister has mounted the exhibition "Painting is Soundless Poetry" at the Good News Gallery in Woodbury, Connecticut.
Paintings as richly diverse as the Abstract Locations, plus all the rest of Pfister's exhibition, need no more explanatory words to justify their merits as compelling images.
"[3] In 2009, Pfister coauthored The Weight of Salt and Soul with Tim Lucas, an original screenplay based on the life of Ishi, a Native American who was the last of his tribe and acclimated to the white man's world during the early twentieth century.