About Richard Diaz

VISION

"My art is a way to pause, gather, and reassemble fleeting moments of life that rush past us. I collect stories—not just of grand events, but of quiet glances, weathered walls, and the rhythms of people moving through urban space.

This process mirrors Cubism’s fractured poetry, where a moment is seen from multiple angles, layered in time. It also draws from Constructivism’s urgency, treating art as an act of craft & social witness. Shapes become scaffolds; textures hold memory; and every line carries the weight of lived experience."

Philosophy

Create space for multifaceted views & narratives, to empower empathy, bridge cultural connections and spark conversation between people. Use imagination to explore, recoup, and re-imagine diverse people's modes of art & meaning making in society, to facilitate decolonization and to promote unity.

Approach

Develop works leveraging a call & response modality, that is an interplay of events, environments, and the qualities of the materials I use to tell cultural narratives.

Influences

In the spirit of Modernism, I make compositions that feel dynamic and alive—like Tatlin’s structures or Picasso’s disassembled guitars—where geometry and humanity collide. My work is also informed by the collectivism and holism of indigenous cultures of the past and today, including their use of symbolic shapes and abstract forms to construct visual narratives.

Skills

  • Sculpture
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Ceramics
  • Multi-media
  • Teaching