Diane Keane

Diane Keane is a mixed-media artist who works primarily with assemblage art, such as boxes, and wall art melding flat surfaces with actual objects. Her work explores many interests and influences from her life, including a love of books, a fascination with the past and found objects, and the fallout from her old-school Roman Catholic upbringing. Within a box, she seeks to transfigure the mundane into encounters in an imaginary time and place, enticing the view to pause, ponder and respond. She works additionally in collage, acrylic painting, and hand-made paper. She is also a classically trained calligrapher with a background in graphic design.

Ms. Keane hails from Turtle Creek, PA. She majored in art at CMU for 1 year in 1968-9 and later obtained a commercial art certificate from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1982. During the 1980s, while free-lancing in commercial art studios, she exhibited assemblage boxes, and hand-made paper collages and sculptures at various venues around Pittsburgh and western PA. During 1991-2000 she lived in Germany and exhibited in Heidelberg, Mannheim, and London. She returned to this area in spring of 2000 and was an office worker until retiring in 2017. Since then she has been making art full time. In 2025 her work was included in "Pittsburgh's Avant-Garde: 60 Years Inside the Underground Art Scene" edited by Sheila Ali and published by Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh PA.