​Artist Bio: 
Clare Asch was born in Hungary and came to the United States as a young child. She showed an early interest in art and attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City. Afterwards, Clare was a student at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture. At Cooper Union, she studied painting with Wolf Kahn and sculpture with Rueben Kadish among other esteemed faculty. Ms. Asch received her BFA cum laude from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Lesley University. Her paintings can be found in the collection of Northeast University, the Marriott and the City of Boston. She has recently exhibited at Galatea Fine Art, the Cambridge Art Association and the Attleboro Art Museum.

Her work has been featured in museum exhibitions at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut; the New Bedford Art Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts; and the Attleboro Arts Museum in Attleboro, Massachusetts. She has also exhibited in juried shows selected by leading curators including Carmen Hermo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Alison Rudnick (Metropolitan Museum of Art, who awarded her painting Black Mountain Best in Show in 2025), and Michèle Wije (Yale University Art Gallery).

My work often unfolds in series, each offering a distinct lens on shared human experience. Origin(al)s reflects on the promise and ethical complexities of DNA research, while Sacred Bones reimagines skeletal forms as both structural and metaphorical frameworks. The Atmospherics paintings create contemplative, nature-inspired spaces, and Travelogues capture the light, memory, and atmosphere of place. The Prayer Panels embed secular prayers beneath the painted surface in pencil. Over time—20 years or more—these hidden words will emerge, signifying the enduring energy of prayer and private intention, even when invisible.
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While working full time as an electronics company’s operation manager, Marian attended art classes at Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, studying under Barnet Rubenstein. Her painting skills were further advanced by studying independently for five years under Ed Stitt, a Boston Painter. She has been painting as a professional, full time painter since 2001.

Marian Dioguardi's painting, Little Pink, was purchased by The Dana Farber Hospital’s permanent art collection . Her signature laundry line paintings of Venice were featured in the Italian art journal, Arte In.  Her paintings continue to be acquired for public and private collections.
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