Not all of the scenes Dianna Settles paints are pleasant, but that seems to be the point: for better or worse, we are undeniably yoked in our collective experience of being human.

Natalie Weis
Natalie Weis is a writer and art critic based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her interests include emerging artists working on the periphery—both geographically and in their chosen mediums. Her writing has appeared in Sculpture magazine, Collectors, Burnaway and Ruckus, as well as on WFPL, Louisville’s NPR radio station. You can read her writing at natalieweis.com.