DIANA GUO





︎LANDSCAPE

︎BREWING FLOWER POWER
︎ARCTIC FOOD KIT

︎MUSEUM IN TRANSIT
︎AIRPORT DYNAMISM

︎SNOWBANK
︎ISLAND OF SEQUENCE ︎COMMON BORDER
︎MIGRATING MUTUALISM
︎NOCTURNAL EARTH

︎WEARABLES
︎SKETCHBOOK


︎ART/EXHIBIT

︎FLOATING BETWEEN BORDERS...OR, PERHAPS, AN EARTH WITHOUT BORDERS?
︎FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM ︎
HETEROTOPIAS OF CONSUMPTION
︎MEDIATIONS
︎WEAVE
︎MOTHER II
︎RADIAL


︎WRITING
︎2021-2018
︎READING LIST


︎ABOUT  

DIANA GUO interested in creating atmospheres through storytelling and poetry and believes in the soft power that stories can bring. She is exploring the translation/transformation of personal narratives in immersive public spaces to incite awareness, emotion, and social change. Moving forward, she will continue researching themes of biopolitics and inclusion/exclusion in design practice and art.

dianaguo@gsd.harvard.edu




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Diana Guo
Selected Works

︎ About
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The media are not toys… they can be entrusted only to new artists, because they are art forms.
(McLuhan, 1954)


Mediations 

Rupture + Co-Habitations
Painting Series
Group show
Palmer Gallery, New York


Year: Fall/Spring 2017-2018
Acrylics, oil on canvas 



+painting +oils +collage +multimedia +urbanism +kevinlynch +gallery 

Rupture: a small hole, a split, a crack in the wall. Through my personal paintings I seek a place to mediate and inhabit where art and design can become mended together, a state of being. Sometimes the freeform world of art presents itself as a mode of critique for design, layering my design work towards more contemplated depth. As urban design is all too often the beginning of loss: losing individuality, losing community, losing meaning itself. Painting is a medium in which I find the expressive power to critique and understand the limitations of the corporate design interface.

This series of paintings have a cloying palette where pastel and neon cohabitate. They are simultaneously about mental map making and identity. They are sometimes interiors and sometimes architectural landscapes. It’s a world where architectural and corporate order dissolves into cloying sweet cohabitation.



Palmer Gallery, group show

bed, 2017