Diane Meyer France I, 2025

Diane Meyer (b. 1976) is an American artist who combines hand-sewn embroidery with photography. The pixelation of her images suggests the distortion of histories. Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, the JP Morgan Library Museum, the Clarinda Carnegie Museum, the Hood Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and the University of Maryland.   

As areas of the image are concealed by the embroidery, small, seemingly trivial details emerge while the larger picture and context are erased. I am interested in the disjunct between actual experience and photographic representation and photography's ability to supplant memory as well as the ways in which photographs transform personal history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past.