Artist Statement
Working across video, light-based sculpture, and painting, my work explores elemental rhythms and forces of nature — light, wind, gravity, tides, and the dimension of time. These works blur the lines between the material and immaterial, creating spaces where the ephemeral and the timeless coexist.
By dissolving boundaries between traditional media and technological processes, I create sensory environments that are both intimate and expansive. Across all my work, I seek to open thresholds into deeper perception, where the invisible becomes tangible and the fleeting points to the eternal.
Diana Lehr
Surfing Beneath the Surface, video installation at the Flatiron Prow Art Space, NYC, January 2 through June 21, 2020, curated by Cheryl McGinnis Projects
A Midsummer Nocturne, video projection at the Robert Allen Porter Natural Area, Williamsport PA, in conjunction with Bucknell University. July, 2024
Bio
Diana Lehr is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based between Hawai‘i and Pennsylvania. Her practice spans painting, light-based sculpture, and time-based media including filmmaking and video art. Inspired by coastal light and inland atmosphere, her work explores the intersection of material and immaterial form, dissolving boundaries between the traditional and the digital.
She creates work that breathes—fields of light, color, and form that, speak to the body before the mind. Rooted in embodied perception, her practice invites immersion into the liminal space between sensation and thought.
Lehr’s work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, alternative spaces, and film festivals across the U.S. In 2017, her video Midsummer Night’s Dream rippled across the globe, garnering over 100 million views via major media outlets. In 2020, her installation Surfing Beneath the Surface illuminated New York City’s Flatiron Prow Art Space and was named a top public art experience by Untapped New York. Since 2022, her video A Midsummer Nocturne has been featured annually in a recurring summer collaboration with Bucknell University.
She is currently developing a series of large-scale light sculptures that explore hidden architectures of color and space. Using technology as a vessel rather than a subject, Lehr continues to pursue new modes of perceptual experience—where physical presence gives way to the metaphysical.
Contact
email: DianaLehrArt@gmail.com