Diane Bush Art

Diane Olson-Bush was born in Buffalo, N.Y. At the age of 18, she emigrated to the U.K. with a draft dodger, in response to the Vietnam War. After living there for ten years and working as a documentary photographer, she returned to the U.S. to attend to her ailing parents. Once back in Buffalo, N.Y. she obtained her Master's Degree in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffaloi by documenting local boxing gyms and billiard halls.

After graduating, she spent seven years as staff photographer at the local affiliate of the National Public Broadcasting and ABC-TV stations. At the same time she pursued self-imposed artistic projects and established a public arts organization.

Diane returned to academia by spending six years as the Coordinator of the Photography Department at a local two-year college just outside of Buffalo. While her students were winning numerous national awards and prizes, Diane was doing the same with her own professional and artistic work, through the generosity of such entities as Kodak, Polaroid, Women in Photography, Nikon, Ilford, the Royal Photographic Society, Friends of Photography (San Francisco), The Albright –Knox Art Gallery, and the United Nations.

Throughout her professional career, Diane has continued to exhibit her work in approximately 2-5 group shows per year, and has been both exhibited and published locally, nationally, and internationally, including shows in Japan, China, Great Britain, Germany, Czechoslovakia and France. Since her relocation to Las Vegas in 1997, she has been awarded 15 grants and a Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2009 she became a U.S.A. Fellowship nominee. Diane continues to teach occasional photographic workshop and donates her time to many local non-profit art organizations.

Diane’s satirical and fine art imagery sourced from T.V. screens spans over 30 years, and includes videos, talking pictures, performance work, and stills.
Bush’s recently published monograph, WARHEADS contains images that satirize America’s news censorship of the Iraqi War. These were created by shooting TV surfaces with a macro lens at obtuse angles and throwing bleach on her C-prints.

Currently, she is creating new “Im-BLEACHments” by further bleaching of WARHEADS and other prints to the point of abstraction. Diane hopes to use these re-worked abstract prints to bring to light another social problem: the blinding and de-facing of women who have acid thrown in their faces by spurned suitors, angry husbands or the Taliban who try to discourage girls from attending school. These Imbleachments can be seen at www.dianebush.net

Diane is a past President and Secretary of the Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas where she lives with her artist husband, Steve Baskin, and Mookie the cat. Both she and her husband collect everything vintage but have a very soft spot for anything mid-century, mod and psychedelic.

OCCUPATION Artist, Cultural/Recreation Supervisor, Clark County Parks and Recreation, Mid-Century Consultant,

SELECT EDUCATION

City and Guilds Certificate in Studio Photography, Paddington Technical College, London, UK

MFA in Photography, 1981- State University of New York at Buffalo

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2009 Phenominal Photography, Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

Instant Gratification, Copro Gallery, Bergamot Arts Complex, L.A., California

Ersatz Group Show, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California

Snap to Grid Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, L.A., California

Selected Works, Center for the Arts, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

WARHEADS, Andre Aggassi Prep. High School, Las Vegas, NV

Your Future Starts Here, The Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas

2008 The Im-BLEACHment of George W. Bush, outdoor public art performance, Las Vegas, Nevada

Macro-Micro, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California

Please Ring Bell, (curated by Rod Slemmons), Photographic Center Northwest, Portland

Best of Polaroid, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, New York

The War in Iraq, Reconnect USA, Providence, Rhode Island

Juried Show, Palo Verde Art Center, Los Angeles, California

2007 Permission to Speak Freely, The Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada (solo show)

Live Free, Rhonda Schaller Studio, Chelsea, New York City, New York

Altered Barbie, Market St. Gallery, San Francisco, California

2006 12/24, Burchfield-Penny Arts Center, Buffalo, New York. (solo show)

2005 freedom…response, Gage Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Connections, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

2004 BE THE REVOLUTION, The Arts Factory, Las Vegas, Nevada

SNAP, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2003 Man in Focus, Der Reiss Engelhorn–Museen, Mannheim, Germany

Big Orbit 10 Year Survey /Selections, Big Orbit, Buffalo, New York.

2002 Secrets and Deceptions, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

Five Photographers, The Marjorie Barrick, UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada

2000 BLOCKBUSTER!, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York.

1999 Mooch, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

1998 Read My Lips, The Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada (solo show)

Seven Photographers, Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1998 Artists and Architects, UNLV , Las Vegas, Nevada

1997 Small Wonders, C.E.P.A., Buffalo, New York

1996 In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Alert Aesthetics, American Center for Culture and Commerce, Prague, Czech Republic

1994 2^nd Annual International Print Biennial , Sapparo, Japan

1992 Icons and Idols, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas

Celebrations of Freedom, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, California

Top Ten, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

1991 In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Portfolio Show, The New York Society of Publication Designers, N.Y., N.Y.

1986 Taking Liberty, The Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y.

1982 The Taking of Niagara, (curated by Tony Bannon) Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

1981 In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Main Street, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, New York (solo show)

1978 Women at Work, Bradford University, Bradford, United Kingdom (solo show)

1977 Stand-up, Hang-up, Put-Down, Artists’ Space, London, United Kingdom

1976 Men by Women, Half Moon Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1975 Women by Women, Half Moon Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1974 Down Wapping, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom

SELECT AWARDS and PUBLIC SITE COMMISSIONS

2009 U.S.A. Fellowship nominee

2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2000,1999, and 1998 Jackpot! Grant, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada

2008 Honorable Mention, Lucie Awards, N.Y.C.

2007 Bright Lights City, new work commissioned by Jerry Schefcik, C.H.A.C., Las Vegas, Nevada

2006 Artist Grant Puffin Foundation, N.Y.C. , New York

2002 Individual Artist Fellowship, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada

“Toy Capsule” Interior Wall commission, the Friends of the Henderson Library, Henderson, Nevada

Honor Award, American Institute of Architects for “Toy Capsule”

2000 Aerial Gallery, public art commissioned by the City of Las Vegas, N.V.

1996 Color Photography Award, “In Western N.Y.” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

1994 Kodak Educators’ Scholarship to attend Santa Fe Photographic Workshops

Artists Residency, C.E.P.A., Buffalo, N.Y.

Kodak Educators’ Grant to attend Camden Imaging Center, Rockport, Maine

1992 Gold Award for Photography, Art Directors/Communicators Club of Buffalo

1989 Main Street, Bus Show, public art commissioned by C.E.P.A. , Buffalo, New York

1988 and 1989 Portfolio Award, Women in Photography Annual Award

1981 Graduate Teaching Assistantship tuition grant, S.U.N.Y., Buffalo, New York

1971-1979 U.K.

Artist Grant, Yorkshire Arts Association, Yorkshire

The British National Photographic Competition Award, Nikon, London

Best Photography The Royal Photographic Society Award, London

MONOGRAPH AND SELECT BOOKS

2009 EXPLORING COLOR PHOTOGRPHY, International Edition, Robert Hirsch, Light Research

2008 PHOTOGRAPHIC POSSIBILITIES 3^rd Edition, by Robert Hirsch, 2008 Light Research

2006 WARHEADS photographs by Diane Bush monograph published by KuDa Editions

2004 HELMUT GERNSHEIM, “Man in Focus” Hard Bound, printed in Germany, 2004

1997 EXPLORING COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY, By Robert Hirsch 1997 Light Research

1974 DOWN WAPPING by EXIT A Photographic Study of the East End Docklands of London,

SELECT MAGAZINES

2009 BLVDS., (cover design) Las vegas

1997 Artweek, U.S.A. (“Artists and Architects”)

1996 FUSED, London, U.K.

1995 Photo District News, New York, U.S.A. (“DigITALY”)

1992 Camera Austria, Austria (“Brits”)

1989 P/F, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“Brits”)

1987 Photo/Design, U.S.A. (Brits)

1986 American Photo, U.S.A.

1976 Time Out, London, U.K. (“Women by Women”)

1974 The British Journal of Photography, London, United Kingdom (“Down Wapping”)

VIDEOS

2008 The Im-BLEACHment of George W. Bush, 5 min, documentary of the performance, now on Youtube

1995 The Televangelists, 10 min. Color Documentary,

1994 Main Street , 5 min. Black & White, PBS Documentary

SELECT COLLECTIONS

Helmut Gernscheim, Mannheim, Germany

George Eastman House,Rochester, New York

The Polaroid Collection, Boston

Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y

Yorkshire Arts Council, Leeds, U.K.

Career Resume

OBJECTIVE To serve the public through my vast experience in Leadership, Education and Advisement, Outreach, Program and Curriculum Development, Grant Writing, Curatorial Skills, Marketing and Fundraising, and Student Retention, etc.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Coordinated Photography Department and taught Large Format, History of Photography, Studio Lighting, Color, and Alternative Processes at small private 2-year liberal arts college for six years before relocating to the Southwest.

Turned local non-profit arts organization from an organization in shambles and in debt, to a well-organized and connected one with over $40,000 in the bank, by working as President, on weekends and evenings, over the course of three years.

Awarded over $100,000 from Local, State and National foundations and funding bodies over the past 12 years, for myself and other entities.

Local, National and International Awards for art and education

Published Monograph by independent fine art photography publisher

USA Fellowship Nominee, Nevada Arts Council Fellow

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1999 - Present: Cultural/ Recreational Supervisor, Clark County, Las Vegas, NV

1997 -1999: Director, The Contemporary Arts Council, Las Vegas, NV

1997 -1998: Adjunct Lecturer: College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

1989 -1997: Department Coordinator, Villa Maria College, Buffalo, NY

EDUCATION

University of New York at Buffalo, M.F.A. Fine Art Photography, 1981

Paddington Technical College, City & Guilds Cert. in Photography, 1974, London, U.K.

Clark County University, 11 years of monthly professional development classes

Villa Maria College, classes in Etching, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Buffalo, NY

PERSONAL Able and willing to relocate REFERENCES Available upon request


	Bio \| Artist Resume \| Career Resume Diane Olson-Bush was born in Buffalo, N.Y. At the age of 18, she emigrated to the U.K. with a draft dodger, in response to the Vietnam War. After living there for ten years and working as a documentary photographer, she returned to the U.S. to attend to her ailing parents. Once back in Buffalo, N.Y. she obtained her Master's Degree in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffaloi by documenting local boxing gyms and billiard halls. After graduating, she spent seven years as staff photographer at the local affiliate of the National Public Broadcasting and ABC-TV stations. At the same time she pursued self-imposed artistic projects and established a public arts organization. Diane returned to academia by spending six years as the Coordinator of the Photography Department at a local two-year college just outside of Buffalo. While her students were winning numerous national awards and prizes, Diane was doing the same with her own professional and artistic work, through the generosity of such entities as Kodak, Polaroid, Women in Photography, Nikon, Ilford, the Royal Photographic Society, Friends of Photography (San Francisco), The Albright –Knox Art Gallery, and the United Nations. Throughout her professional career, Diane has continued to exhibit her work in approximately 2-5 group shows per year, and has been both exhibited and published locally, nationally, and internationally, including shows in Japan, China, Great Britain, Germany, Czechoslovakia and France. Since her relocation to Las Vegas in 1997, she has been awarded 15 grants and a Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2009 she became a U.S.A. Fellowship nominee. Diane continues to teach occasional photographic workshop and donates her time to many local non-profit art organizations. Diane’s satirical and fine art imagery sourced from T.V. screens spans over 30 years, and includes videos, talking pictures, performance work, and stills. Bush’s recently published monograph, WARHEADS contains images that satirize America’s news censorship of the Iraqi War. These were created by shooting TV surfaces with a macro lens at obtuse angles and throwing bleach on her C-prints. Currently, she is creating new “Im-BLEACHments” by further bleaching of WARHEADS and other prints to the point of abstraction. Diane hopes to use these re-worked abstract prints to bring to light another social problem: the blinding and de-facing of women who have acid thrown in their faces by spurned suitors, angry husbands or the Taliban who try to discourage girls from attending school. These Imbleachments can be seen at www.dianebush.net Diane is a past President and Secretary of the Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas where she lives with her artist husband, Steve Baskin, and Mookie the cat. Both she and her husband collect everything vintage but have a very soft spot for anything mid-century, mod and psychedelic. Artist Resume OCCUPATION Artist, Cultural/Recreation Supervisor, Clark County Parks and Recreation, Mid-Century Consultant, SELECT EDUCATION City and Guilds Certificate in Studio Photography, Paddington Technical College, London, UK MFA in Photography, 1981- State University of New York at Buffalo SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2009 Phenominal Photography, Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada Instant Gratification, Copro Gallery, Bergamot Arts Complex, L.A., California Ersatz Group Show, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California Snap to Grid Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, L.A., California Selected Works, Center for the Arts, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York WARHEADS, Andre Aggassi Prep. High School, Las Vegas, NV Your Future Starts Here, The Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas 2008 The Im-BLEACHment of George W. Bush, outdoor public art performance, Las Vegas, Nevada Macro-Micro, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California Please Ring Bell, (curated by Rod Slemmons), Photographic Center Northwest, Portland Best of Polaroid, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, New York The War in Iraq, Reconnect USA, Providence, Rhode Island Juried Show, Palo Verde Art Center, Los Angeles, California 2007 Permission to Speak Freely, The Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada (solo show) Live Free, Rhonda Schaller Studio, Chelsea, New York City, New York Altered Barbie, Market St. Gallery, San Francisco, California 2006 12/24, Burchfield-Penny Arts Center, Buffalo, New York. (solo show) 2005 freedom…response, Gage Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Connections, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada 2004 BE THE REVOLUTION, The Arts Factory, Las Vegas, Nevada SNAP, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2003 Man in Focus, Der Reiss Engelhorn–Museen, Mannheim, Germany Big Orbit 10 Year Survey /Selections, Big Orbit, Buffalo, New York. 2002 Secrets and Deceptions, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada Five Photographers, The Marjorie Barrick, UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada 2000 BLOCKBUSTER!, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York. 1999 Mooch, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada 1998 Read My Lips, The Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada (solo show) Seven Photographers, Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York 1998 Artists and Architects, UNLV , Las Vegas, Nevada 1997 Small Wonders, C.E.P.A., Buffalo, New York 1996 In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Alert Aesthetics, American Center for Culture and Commerce, Prague, Czech Republic 1994 2^nd Annual International Print Biennial , Sapparo, Japan 1992 Icons and Idols, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas Celebrations of Freedom, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, California Top Ten, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. 1991 In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Portfolio Show, The New York Society of Publication Designers, N.Y., N.Y. 1986 Taking Liberty, The Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y. 1982 The Taking of Niagara, (curated by Tony Bannon) Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery, Niagara Falls, N.Y. 1981 In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Main Street, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, New York (solo show) 1978 Women at Work, Bradford University, Bradford, United Kingdom (solo show) 1977 Stand-up, Hang-up, Put-Down, Artists’ Space, London, United Kingdom 1976 Men by Women, Half Moon Gallery, London, United Kingdom 1975 Women by Women, Half Moon Gallery, London, United Kingdom 1974 Down Wapping, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom SELECT AWARDS and PUBLIC SITE COMMISSIONS 2009 *U.S.A. Fellowship* nominee 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2000,1999, and 1998 Jackpot! Grant, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada 2008 Honorable Mention, Lucie Awards, N.Y.C. 2007 Bright Lights City, new work commissioned by Jerry Schefcik, C.H.A.C., Las Vegas, Nevada 2006 Artist Grant Puffin Foundation, N.Y.C. , New York 2002 Individual Artist Fellowship, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada “Toy Capsule” Interior Wall commission, the Friends of the Henderson Library, Henderson, Nevada Honor Award, American Institute of Architects for “Toy Capsule” 2000 Aerial Gallery, public art commissioned by the City of Las Vegas, N.V. 1996 Color Photography Award, “In Western N.Y.” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. 1994 *Kodak Educators’ Scholarship* to attend Santa Fe Photographic Workshops Artists Residency, C.E.P.A., Buffalo, N.Y. *Kodak Educators’ Grant* to attend Camden Imaging Center, Rockport, Maine 1992 Gold Award for Photography, Art Directors/Communicators Club of Buffalo 1989 Main Street, Bus Show, public art commissioned by C.E.P.A. , Buffalo, New York 1988 and 1989 Portfolio Award, Women in Photography Annual Award 1981 Graduate Teaching Assistantship tuition grant, S.U.N.Y., Buffalo, New York 1971-1979 U.K. Artist Grant, Yorkshire Arts Association, Yorkshire The British National Photographic Competition Award, Nikon, London Best Photography The Royal Photographic Society Award, London MONOGRAPH AND SELECT BOOKS 2009 EXPLORING COLOR PHOTOGRPHY, International Edition, Robert Hirsch, Light Research 2008 PHOTOGRAPHIC POSSIBILITIES 3^rd Edition, by Robert Hirsch, 2008 Light Research 2006 WARHEADS photographs by Diane Bush monograph published by KuDa Editions 2004 HELMUT GERNSHEIM, “Man in Focus” Hard Bound, printed in Germany, 2004 1997 EXPLORING COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY, By Robert Hirsch 1997 Light Research 1974 DOWN WAPPING by EXIT A Photographic Study of the East End Docklands of London, SELECT MAGAZINES 2009 *BLVDS., (cover design) Las vegas 1997 Artweek, U.S.A. (“Artists and Architects”) 1996 FUSED, London, U.K. 1995 Photo District News, New York, U.S.A. (“DigITALY”) 1992 Camera Austria, Austria* (“Brits”) 1989 P/F, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“Brits”) 1987 *Photo/Design, U.S.A. (Brits) 1986 American Photo, U.S.A. 1976 Time Out, London, U.K. (“Women by Women”) 1974 The British Journal of Photography, London, United Kingdom (“Down Wapping”) VIDEOS* 2008 *The Im-BLEACHment of George W. Bush, 5 min, documentary of the performance, now on Youtube 1995 The Televangelists, 10 min. Color Documentary, 1994 Main Street* , 5 min. Black & White, PBS Documentary SELECT COLLECTIONS Helmut Gernscheim, Mannheim, Germany George Eastman House,Rochester, New York The Polaroid Collection, Boston Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y Yorkshire Arts Council, Leeds, U.K. Career Resume OBJECTIVE To serve the public through my vast experience in Leadership, Education and Advisement, Outreach, Program and Curriculum Development, Grant Writing, Curatorial Skills, Marketing and Fundraising, and Student Retention, etc. PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS Coordinated Photography Department and taught Large Format, History of Photography, Studio Lighting, Color, and Alternative Processes at small private 2-year liberal arts college for six years before relocating to the Southwest. Turned local non-profit arts organization from an organization in shambles and in debt, to a well-organized and connected one with over $40,000 in the bank, by working as President, on weekends and evenings, over the course of three years. Awarded over $100,000 from Local, State and National foundations and funding bodies over the past 12 years, for myself and other entities. Local, National and International Awards for art and education Published Monograph by independent fine art photography publisher USA Fellowship Nominee, Nevada Arts Council Fellow EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1999 - Present: Cultural/ Recreational Supervisor, Clark County, Las Vegas, NV 1997 -1999: Director, The Contemporary Arts Council, Las Vegas, NV 1997 -1998: Adjunct Lecturer: College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 1989 -1997: Department Coordinator, Villa Maria College, Buffalo, NY EDUCATION University of New York at Buffalo, M.F.A. Fine Art Photography, 1981 Paddington Technical College, City & Guilds Cert. in Photography, 1974, London, U.K. Clark County University, 11 years of monthly professional development classes Villa Maria College, classes in Etching, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Buffalo, NY PERSONAL Able and willing to relocate REFERENCES Available upon request
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