Artist Talk: Diane Novetsky with Marjorie Kaye

Join artists Diane Novetsky with Marjorie Kaye

is an abstract painter who uses bold, saturated colors and biomorphic forms evocative of the female body. She is a former graphic designer and business owner of Nova Design, and has also taught painting for many years.

Diane’s work has been widely shown throughout New England including the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Galatea Fine Arts, Danforth Museum of Art, Tufts University Aidekman Gallery, Kingston Gallery, and the Boston Convention Center. She started 2024 as a featured solo artist at The Painting Center, NYC. Forthcoming exhibits include the Southern Vermont Art Center and the Kingston Gallery. Diane has been included in prominent group exhibits at the Painting Center, NY, and Mark Borghi Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY.

Diane’s work has been published in Artscope, Art New England, the Boston Globe and Boston Voyager. Diane resides in Somerville MA and is a founding member of the Brickbottom Artists Community.

resides in the city of North Adams, MA, after living in the Boston area for many years. Her most recent work is an investigation of intuitive algorithms, and how they reflect the building blocks of manifestation as well as consciousness. Within one pattern, many emerge: an ocean contains memory of its past incarnations in momentary continuous changes on the surface and under the water.

Kaye’s work has been reviewed in many publications including the Boston Globe, ArtScope Magazine, and the Metapsychosis Journal, and has been shown extensively, including at galleries such as Galatea Fine Art in Boston, Future Lab(s) Gallery in North Adams, the Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, LABSpace in Hillsdale, NY, and in many venues with the Feminist/Futurist Collective. Kaye is a past recipient of the Orlowsky/Freed Foundation Grant from the Provincetown Art Museum, where she also exhibited. She was awarded a Finalist Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for Painting in 2018, as well as from the Northern Berkshires Cultural Council in 2024 and 2025. As of 2022, Kaye is the Western Massachusetts correspondent for ArtScope Magazine for the Berkshires, and covered exhibits and events at the 2022 Art Basel Miami. Kaye is the founder of Galatea Fine Art in Boston, MA, a large artist-run gallery featuring over 39 artists from Boston and beyond and was its director until 2023. Some past projects also include the web-based Caladan Gallery, which ran for 10 years and exhibited hundreds of artists from all over the world, and the Lawrence, MA Gallery 181, which enhanced the community with the exhibition of local, national, and international artists.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, United States