Diana Lehr

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 unfolding of time. These works blur the lines between the material and immaterial, creating spaces where the ephemeral and the primordial coexist.

By dissolving boundaries between traditional media and technological processes, I create sensory environments that are both intimate and expansive. Across all my work, thresholds into deeper perception emerge, where the invisible becomes tangible and fleeting experience opens into presence.

Diana Lehr

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. Her work explores the intersection of material and immaterial form, dissolving boundaries between the traditional and the digital.

She creates works that evolve through fields of light, color, and time, speaking to the body before the mind and inviting immersion into the liminal space between sensation and thought.

Most recently, Lehr presented a multi-site video installation, Air / Water / Earth / Fire, for Basilica Hudson’s Soundscape 2025; four videos from her Worlding series were featured at Littman & White Galleries, Portland State University, 2025; and her work A Midsummer Nocturne was presented at the Robert Allen Porter Natural Area (Bucknell University), 2025, where it has been featured annually since 2022

Lehr’s work has been presented in galleries, museums, and public architectural contexts across the United States, including installations at New York City’s Flatiron Prow Art Space in 2020 (recognized by Untapped New York as a top public art experience). A video excerpt from Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2017 reached a global audience of over 100 million viewers and was featured by major international media outlets including ABC News, The Telegraph, and The Australian.

She is currently developing a series of large-scale light sculptures that explore hidden architectures of color and space, using technology as a conduit for perceptual experience.

Contact

email: DianaLehrArt@gmail.com