On Thursday, June 4th, Wally Workman Gallery presents Expanding line, a solo exhibition by artist Diana Greenberg. Continuing her exploration of large-scale canvas formats, Greenberg creates works that balance sweeping, gestural movement with delicate linear interventions drawn directly into the painted surface. Her compositions investigate the relationship between structure and spontaneity, using color, rhythm, and negative space to produce dynamic visual environments that seem to shift between flatness and dimensionality.

Throughout the exhibition, Greenberg demonstrates a heightened sensitivity to spatial tension and materiality. Twisting forms and layered passages of color unfold across the canvas, suggesting sculptural movement within the limits of a two-dimensional plane. While her larger paintings emphasize expansive gestures and immersive scale, the smaller works possess an almost tactile quality, where dense surfaces and concentrated mark-making evoke the intimacy of hand-built objects. This interplay between monumentality and detail gives the exhibition a sense of constant motion and transformation.

Botanical imagery remains a central source of inspiration within Greenberg’s practice. Drawing from cut flowers arranged in her studio, the artist translates organic forms into fluid abstractions infused with vivid and evolving color relationships. These references to the natural world are not rendered literally, but instead emerge through atmosphere, shape, and chromatic intensity. Based in Austin, Texas, Diana Greenberg has developed a distinctive painterly language rooted in gesture, perception, and experimentation, and Expanding line marks her eleventh solo exhibition with the gallery.