Born  Brookline, Massachusetts

Resides  Los Angeles, California

Education
   
     UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, drawing     
     Boston University, Boston, MA
     Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
     University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 

Awards
2019       "8 or 9 Bowls" published in online PoetsArtists Magazine in their theme "Provocative Patterns" 
2018       Winner, Still Life, The  Pastel Journal 18th Annual Best Pastel 100 Paintings
2017        Pastel Society of the South West, Merit Award, Annual Competition 
2017        Selected for inclusion in Strokes of Genius 9, Creative Discoveries, North Light Book
2016        Winner, Pratique des Art, 40 World Class Master Pastelists
2016        First Place, Still Life, The Pastel Journal 16th Annual Pastel 100 Competition
2015        Finalist Southwest Art Magazine Artistic Excellence Award
2015        Finalist, International Artist Magazine Still Life Challenge Competition
2015        2 Finalist awards, The Artists Magazine 32nd Annual Art Competition
2015        First Place, Still Life, The Pastel Journal 15th Annual Pastel 100 Competition
2015        Finalist, International Association of Pastel Societies 25th Juried Exhibition
2013        Finalist, International Association of Pastel Societies 23rd Juried Exhibition
2011        Honorable Mention, Still Life, The  Pastel Journal 11th Annual Pastel 100 Competition
2009        Honorable Mention, Still Life, The Pastel Journal 9th Annual Pastel 100 Competition
2007        Finalist, Still Life, The Artist Magazine 2007 Annual Competition
2007        Winner, Emerging Artists 2007 Calendar
2002        Finalist, Still Life & Floral The Pastel Journal  3rd Annual Pastel 100 Competition 
2001        2nd Place, Student/Still Life, The Artist Magazine's 2001 Annual Art Competition
2001        Honorable Mention, Artistic Achievement, Portrait, Juried Exhibition
                American Artist Magazine Art Methods and Materials Show

                   
Professional Affiliations
 
                Signature Member (Juried), Pastel Society of America
                Juried Member, International Guild of Realism
                Juried Member, Pastel Society of Southern California
                Juried Member, Pastel Society of the West Coast
                Juried Member,Los Angeles Art Association
                International Association of Pastel Societies
              

Publications

             Strokes of Genuius 9, Creative Discoveries, North Light Books, 2017
             Pratique des Art, 40 World Master Pastel Artists 2016
             The Artist's Magazine, Feature Article, Eat Your Vegetables, June 2015
             Pastel Journal, 16th Annual Pastel 100 Competition 2015
            American Art Collector, Still Life Article, Janaury 2013
            Best of Worldwide Still Life 2012
             American Art Collector, Still Life Article, January 2011
             American Artists Magazine, Feature Article, June 2010
             American Art Collector Magazine, January 2010

Galleries

               Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
               TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. since 2009-2018.
               Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA

                
Gallery Shows

                 2019 Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA  New Work
                 2019 Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA "Works by Gallery Artists"
                 2017 TAG Gallery, Solo Show, "Continued...", Los Angeles, CA
                 2016 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History/Waterhouse Gallery
                 2016 TAG Gallery, Solo Show, Santa Monica, CA
                 2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
                 2014 TAG Gallery, Solo Show, "Everything Glass", Santa Monica, CA
                 2014 The Foundry, Santa Barbara, CA
                 2014 Proverbs Gallery, Camarillo, CA
                 2013 TAG Gallery, Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
                 2012 TAG Gallery, Solo show, "New Work" Santa Moica, CA
                 2011 Artworks for the Cure, Los Angeles, CA
                 2011 TAG Gallery, Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
                 2011 TAG Gallery, Solo Show, "The Beauty of Ordinary Objects",Santa Monica,CA
                 2010 TAG Gallery, Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
                 2010 TAG Gallery, Solo Show, "Common Objects", Santa Monica, CA

Private Collections
 
                 

                  Ric and Susanne Kane, Santa Monica, CA
                  Allan and Paula Rudnick, Bel Air, CA
                  Mason Street-Harbor View Inn, Lobby, Santa Barbara, CA
                  Michael Canale, Beverly Hills, CA
                  Deborah Stoff, Bel Air,CA
                  Ayn Grinstein, Los Angeles, CA
                  Les Greenberg, Palm Beach, FL       
                  Paul Kanin, Beverly Hills, CA
                  Marci and Howard Zelikow, Los Angeles, CA
                  Diane and Moses Lebovits, Los Angeles, CA
                  Jerry Isenberg, Monticeto, CA
                  Myrna and George Weisenfield, Studio City, CA
                  Sharon Cohen, Cambridge, MA
                  Dr. and Mrs. Randall Parker, Granada Hills, CA
                  Rebecca Goodell and David Greenberg, Pacific Palisades, CA
                  Carla Malden, Los Angeles, CA
                  Sharon Cohen, Cambridge, MA
                  Rosa Sinott, Los Angeles, CA
                  Nancy and Robert Sylvor, San Miguel de Allende, MX
                  Rabbi Barbara Zacky, Santa Monica, CA
                  Jane Gottfried and Kenny Siegel, Los Angeles, CA

Bio

A native Bostonian, Diane Rudnick Mann moved to Los Angeles in 1988 as a writer but after taking a drawing class at UCLA, saw her future. Basically a self-taught pastel artist who started painting later in life she found the work became a passion. She has no specific agenda about what she paints, she just paints. In a way, she believes that not having had years of training frees her from thinking about what she’s “supposed” to do. For her, each new piece is like an adventure and the excitement for her comes from the process of watching a painting develop across the canvas.

In all her pastel paintings Mann continues to highlight subtleties in her detailed still life
compositions and now focuses on objects of glass. Working with pastels, a medium commonly reserved for loose lines and soft-focus effects, Mann alternatively applies the medium with meticulous intensity. Brilliantly colored crayons, ripe cherries, keys and unexpected objects pop from the shadows in stark contrast and draw attention to that which may be overlooked in our everyday life.

Her use of high contrast light and shadow, especially in her glass paintings and others with black backgrounds, is particularly important to her work because she finds it gives a personality to these objects making us look at them in a new way. Stripped of time, place, and function, the minutiae of everyday life become the focus of our attention. We are forced to look, to gaze intently at the usual, otherwise, as Mann describes, “you would walk by and never notice.” Mann adds, “I’ve found that an unexpected benefit to working this way is that the precision required to paint in a realistic manner can bring order to a sometimes chaotic world.”

Mann is a Juried Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the International Guild of Realism, Pastel Society of Southern California and is currently showing at Skidmore Contemporary Art in Santa Monica, CA