Julie Zener Gallery

Ethan Diehl’s childhood passion for visual arts eventually led him to Stanford University in which he obtained his B.A. in 1994.   While attending Stanford, Diehl met artist, Nathan Oliveira, a painter, sculptor, and master print-maker, who mentored Ethan and ultimately showed Ethan how to turn his color- blindness into striking expressionistic images.

After graduation, Diehl aspired to integrate more realism in his work. Interested in Chuck Close’s artistic theory of rendering photorealistic imagery through a grid system, Diehl found his more realistic style. The squares within each of Diehl’s canvases contain an average shade that actually exists, thus resulting in a dynamically realistic whole.

Ethan Diehl currently lives, works, and paints in La Quinta, California, where he continues to use photographs, computers, and grid systems to create paintings.