Diane Appaix-Castro
Diane Appaix-Castro, Into the Dark, Multimedia experiential installation, 2021
Diane Appaix-Castro, Subsiste, Multimedia experiential installation, 2020
Diane Appaix-Castro, Chez Vous, Chez Nous, Multimedia installation, 2022
Diane Appaix-Castro, Déjate Callar, Multimedia experiential installation, 2022
Diane Appaix-Castro is a French and Spanish sculptor and experiential installation artist born in Paris, France, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently based in New Orleans, Louisiana since 2019. Diane has an MFA in Sculpture from Tulane University and a BFA from Suffolk University and has exhibited work in the South, the Midwest, and the Northeast of the US. Diane has been in residence with Studio North by Moskow Linn Architects, the Southern Heat Exchange, and is currently in a 14-week residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Diane is the recipient of the Emergency Grant to fund a project from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the School of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Summer Research and Write-Up Fellowship Grant, and was awarded first place in DIY Art for the show titled Reconnecting in Quarantine at Tulane Hillel. She is a member of the artist collective, The Front and has a studio at Camp Street Studios. Aspects of Diane’s practice involve researching cross-cultural scientific and philosophical thinking, marine biology, and outer space to expand her vision of the possible and wonder what may lie beyond the limits of our perception.