Diane Christi's visual practice is rooted in a lifelong engagement with movement. As a former dancer, she has transformed the language of choreography into a visual practice that explores rhythm, gesture, memory, and perception through abstraction. Since beginning her studies at the Woodstock School of Art in 2012 under the guidance of Meredith Rosier, Diane has developed a distinctive body of work that draws upon embodied experience and intuitive process. Through layering, erasure, and repetition, her compositions investigate the relationship between movement and memory, translating ephemeral physical experience into visual form. Her work represents a continuing exploration of movement as a fundamental language of human experience. 


Artist Statement
My drawings translate the language of movement into layered abstract compositions that emerge through intuition, gesture, and repetition. Drawing from my background in dance, I approach each work as a choreography of marks in which movement unfolds through the interplay of line, color, and form. Through this vocabulary, I explore rhythm, memory, and spatial experience.
 
Working with pencil, pastel, and ink on paper, I begin with spontaneous gestures that move freely across the surface. Through a process of layering, revision, and erasure, these marks evolve into complex structures in which texture, form, and space continuously shift and transform. Erasure functions not as a corrective measure, but as an essential act of creation—revealing new possibilities while preserving the history of the drawing.
 
Although rooted in the vocabulary of dance, my work does not illustrate movement; it embodies it. The drawings invite sustained looking, unfolding gradually through shifting relationships of gesture, color, and space. Through this process, I seek to translate the ephemeral qualities of movement into a visual experience that reflects perception, memory, and the act of becoming.
 
This practice continues my lifelong exploration of movement as a fundamental language of human experience.