Diana Thater is an American artist, writer, curator and educator. She earned her BA in art history from New York University and now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Thater uses her art to explore the earthly and mundane qualities of film and video. She redirects architectural space by forcing interaction with projected images and colored light. Diana Thater primary focus in her work is looking at how humans and the natural world relate to each other. She defines her vision of the untouched world with how she sees nature has been manipulated and often creates this vision in panoramic landscape paintings. Thater's main focus lays on the tension between nature and reality which involves the tamed and the wild, and science and magic. Her source for her work comes from literature, observing animal behavior, looking at mathematics and sociology. She then creates near abstract works to define how she observes the interaction and relationships within certain surroundings. (Artist website) Read Less