Collecting Changes: A Permanent Record

DIANE REEVES

Opening Friday, March 6, 5-9pm

On display through March  27th

 

About the Exhibit:

An herbarium is a careful paradox: plants, gathered at a moment of becoming, are pressed, named, and archived—to hold on to vitality, to render a living world still. In Collecting Changes: A Permanent Record, Diane Reeves turns to this practice as a way of recognizing life: not as a singular arc, but as an accumulation of changes held patiently together.

Echoing the way experience enters our frame–sometimes gently, sometimes aloud, always leaving traces that cannot be undone–each painting functions like a specimen: a record of growth, compromise, and adjustment. What is preserved is still life: the evidence of transformation.

The show invites a fresh reading of permanence—not as stasis, but as willingness. To live is to collect change: to gather moments of adaptation and loss, resilience and recalibration, and to allow them to coexist without hierarchy. Seen this way, a life becomes an archive not of what remained the same, but of everything that was brave enough to shift.

About the Artist:

Diane Reeves sketches, paints, arranges, and sculpts to resist isolation, to embrace kinship through place, memory, and form.  Architecture plays a central role in her work, shaping how she interprets spaces and the relationships they hold.  Reeves’ pieces are abstract reflections of hidden structures, unspoken histories, and the quiet beauty of transformation--because it is maybe the most unremarkable fragments of life that hold the most meaning--ordinary objects and common places are souvenirs of a life worth keeping.  Diane is drawn to the overlooked details of daily life, the mundane made meaningful, the built environment as both boundary and bridge.  At its core, her practice is about belonging--her family extends beyond blood ties to friendships, spaces, and the imprints of the everyday. In each painting, Reeves invites viewers to see themselves within those layers—to recognize their own place in the architecture of connection.