Biography:
Marcia Dietz was born and raised in upstate New York where the beauty of untouched nature and the closeness of family abound. Her Father and Grandfather built the families Adirondack lake cabin with the help of many friends and family members. This event became one of the most important early influences in her creativity.
As an adult, Marcia and her husband Scott Dietz moved to Atlanta to start their own family. They now have three grown children. While the kids were young, Marcia volunteered to be the arts and crafts mom as often as possible. Once her oldest went to college, It was time for Marcia to focus on her own artistic endeavors. In 2013 Marcia finished her MFA in painting with an emphasis in sculpture at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Artistically Marcia Dietz enjoys a good challenge. She is not afraid to try something new and is very much a process oriented artist. Skilled in a wide variety of media her work can be very eclectic or as pure as a fine oil painting. The theme that carries all of Marcia’s work is an on going study of interpersonal dynamics as it relates to identity. It is a look at the energy between people, what causes it to attract and repel, increase and decrease, or exist at all. Looking at the absence of such energy is the investigational force behind the drawing machines. She feels by clearly seeing the absence of a creative force in the making process we can better understand its presence.
Like many experimental works, the drawing machines (created for her masters thesis show) created a unique set of new questions: Where is the art? in the product? in the machine? is this art at all? and knowing the machine has no intention when drawing, why do we still try to see something in it? Marcia has no intention of answering such questions because she feels some things are better left up to discussion. For her a good work or art creates a memory, or starts a conversation, a great work does both.
Fine art by Marcia A Dietz, MFA 