"The Center Will Not Hold" Performance
SWEPT AWAY: LOVE LETTER TO A SURROGATE
Collaborators: Deborah Lynn Irmas and Frida Cano.
Photo Credit: Mick Lorusso
"The Center Will Not Hold" Performance
SWEPT AWAY: LOVE LETTER TO A SURROGATE
Collaborators: Deborah Lynn Irmas and Frida Cano.
Photo Credit: Mick Lorusso
CONCURRENCIES: Charlotte Salomon and Eva Hesse: Genius, Trauma and the Creative Imagination
Created in conjunction with the Debra Disman "I Can't I Won't I Will I Do" exhibition at ReflectSpace Gallery at Glendale Central Library, Glendale Library Arts & Culture, co-curated by Ara and Anahid Oshagan
This past Saturday, our 18thstreetarts local #artistinresidence Debra Disman (@artifactorystudio) had an open studio!
Venus (@siutungcreates), our Curatorial Intern from the Chinese University of Hong Kong writes, “Debra's works stitch through the passage of time. The texture, forms, and structures of books reflect her most intimate and daily emotions. The materials create space but not void. Audiences were invited to fill their own stories between the pages of these crafted books. Through shared conversations, visitors related through their ideas of home, families, and memories.”
"CONCURRENCIES", a showing of works created for my 2021-2022 Santa Monica Artist Fellowship project investigating, linking and responding to the work of Charlotte Salomon and Eva Hesse.
"Debra Disman makes sculptural objects from a combination of materials that can be read as fiber art, yet also imply book forms. Her work is a mesmerizing combination of materials, textures, and forms that are combined with exceptional skill."
PRAETERITA Interview
The Book as Art v9: MUSE,
ARTISTS' TALK: Debra Disman/Kyle Clark/Carole Kunstadt
CRAFTING MEMORIES
ONLINE BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP SERIES FOR OLDER ADULTS
With CRAFT CONTEMPORARY
Supported by: AROHA PHILANTHROPIES
Debra Disman:
"UNFOLDING POSSIBILITIES"
Artists' Book Video
Jeny Amaya – filmmaker
18th Street Arts Center– host
Why We Rise: supporter
ESSAY by JÜRI KOLL, Director,
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art
American Craft Magazine featuring the FORMATION traveling Exhibition
FORMATION
Traveling Exhibition
The Big Read in LA 2016 F451 ART EXHBITION
Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque
WORD Grant 2016
to support
THE SHELTERING BOOK project
THE SHELTERING BOOK
Supported by the WORD Grant 2016: The Bruce Geller Memorial Prize
"THE SHELTERING BOOK" is a life-sized book structure which becomes the backdrop for community bookmaking workshops. The work draws parallels between the meaning and architecture of the book, and the temporary structure of the Sukkah. The project also explores the relationship between the public sphere and private space, whether that space be our personal creativity, where we create, or what we create.