NARROWSBURG, NY — “Working Conditions,” an exhibit of paintings by Carol Diamond, opens with a reception on Friday, June 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Delaware Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery, 37 Main St. The exhibit will be on view through June 25.

With an innate feel for materials, Diamond treats her canvases as excavation sites, digging out abstract forms and riffing on medieval and baroque architecture. Her paintings contain layers of thick and thin oil paint, areas of rough brushwork and sections of scraped-off color.

“Existential questions propel my art,” Diamond says. “I’m searching for a deeper understanding of the artist’s place in the universe. Working with concrete powder and medium, latex paint, shattered glass, and razor blades for incising, scraping, and gouging into the painted surface, I’m exploring formal relationships and their psychological implications.”

Diamond (www.caroldiamond.com) has received numerous awards and honors, including a recent Pratt Institute Professional Development Grant, the Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letter’s Invitational Exhibition, the National Academy Museum’s Edwin Palmer Prize and a Vermont Studio Center Residency.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit delawarevalleyartsalliance.org or call 845/252-7576.