{"data":{"id":"4377","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":4377,"topgoose_id":412,"tms_id":4377,"display_name":"Diana Thater","sort_name":"Thater Diana","display_date":"1962–","begin_date":"1962","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eSince the early 1990s Diana Thater has\nbeen producing complex video installations—\nnonnarrative moving images in layered,\nroom-sized projections and architectural\ninterventions—that investigate the\nrelationship of time and space to the\nsubjective experience of viewing. Thater’s\napproach developed from an engagement\nwith media theory, literature, science,\nart history, Hollywood cinema, and\nexperimental filmmaking, all of which she\nstudied at New York University and, later,\nat the Art Center College of Design in\nPasadena, California, where she received\nher MFA. She also has cited a deep interest\nin the notion of beauty as an underlying\nprinciple for much of her art making, as\nreflected in her use of video imagery drawn\nfrom the natural world—primarily plants,\nanimals, and the solar system.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/12783\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSix-Color Video Wall\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, for example,\nuses footage taken by NASA satellites of the\nsun at various stages of the day to\ndeconstruct the basic six-color spectrum\nof video light; Thater presents both the\noriginal imagery photographed in red, blue,\nand green, as well as in its complementary\ncolor set of cyan, magenta, and yellow,\nwhich the artist generated in postproduction.\nThe six cube monitors are displayed in\na gallery flooded with mauve and deep blue\nlight filtered from windows covered with\ncolored theatrical gels, creating a volumetric\nand immersive environment. As Thater\nexplained, “I wanted to make a vehicle for\nthinking about space. I want people\nto go into that . . . purple volume that I have\nmade and experience a very complex\nrelationship between their body and space.”\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500114750","wikidata_id":"Q514459","created_at":"2017-08-30T15:39:37.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-23T01:33:10.166-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/4377/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/4377/exhibitions"}}}}