Diana Al-Hadid is a Syrian-born American contemporary artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

She uses everyday materials, such as plaster, plywood, and cardboard, to create monochromatic, room-sized structures that seem to rise, fall, and ooze all at once. Simultaneously suggesting a sci-fi future and recalling a mythical past, the pieces combine architectural references like church spires, columns, and broken plinths with simulated fabric drapery and melting wax. Enigmatic narratives are embedded, including references to Pieter Brughel and stories about the mythical Ariadne and the 13th-century Muslim inventor Al-Jazari, who is said to have influenced Leonardo di Vinci.

The six sculptures that make up artist Diana Al-Hadid's "Delirious Matter" exhibition have spent the summer growing into their environment at Madison Square Park. Learn more at http://allarts.org Follow us on: Twitter: http://twitter.com/allartstv Instagram: http://instagram.com/allartstv Facebook: http://facebook.com/allartstv ABOUT ALL ARTS: ALL ARTS is a multimedia platform devoted to engaging with numerous artistic genres.

Links:

The Artist Project - Diana Al-Hadid

Work appears in the collections of:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro.