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TAG: The 2025 LA OPEN

January 7, 2025 By Debra Disman

The Artists Gallery (TAG) Presents:
The L.A. Open 2025
JOIN US:
Wednesday, January 8 through Friday, January 24
Awards Reception: Saturday, January 11th, 2025, 5 – 8 pm

TAG and the L.A. Open celebrate art and creativity in Los Angeles County!

I am thrilled to show two works in this fun and fantastic annual show!

“The Body Politic: Black and Gold“, 2024, 8.5 x 23 x 7″, book board, paint, canvas, metal leaf, lace, cord, netting, trim, beads


“Hopes and Fears and…”, 2020, 24.5 x 16.25″, textile samples, linen thread

JUROR: Genie Davis
Genie Davis is a writer who loves and writes about art as well as a wide range of other subjects as a journalist, biographer, novelist, and WGA-W screen and television writer. You can see her written work in the arts on her own www.diversionsLA.com as well as in past publications of Artillery, Art & Cake, Art Scene, Fabrik, and Riot Material.
She is the curator of 2023’s Leaving Eden, a two-person thematic exhibition at Keystone Art Space; September 2024’s Thresholds, a small group exhibition at Gallery of Hermosa; and upcoming in March 2025, the international exhibition Windswept at Wonzimer Gallery.

MORE INFO HERE!

 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Exhibitions, TEXTILE/FIBER, Textiles/Fiber/Cloth, Venues, Work Tagged With: Arts Scene, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Artists, Diversity, Genie Davis, Group Exhbition, Group Exhibition, Group Show, LA Arts Scene, LA Contemporary Art, LA Contemporary Artists, LA OPEN, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles Exhbition, Mid City, Miracle Mile, Miracle Mile Gallery, TAG, Tag Gallery, the 2025 LA OPEN, The Artists Gallery, Vitality, Wilshire Boulevard

The HERa Rewrites HER/OUR Story

January 3, 2025 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to participate in the Hera Gallery’s year long, 52-piece online show, “Rewriting her Story“

“Writer Elizabeth Lesser asks “What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her?”

Flipping through the pages of your high school history textbook, how many stories are written about women as monumental protagonists? When was the last time you watched a movie that passed the Bechdel test? When was the last time there were more women than men on the Supreme Court voting on the right to our bodies? 

As brands of “faux” feminism partnered with consumerist culture push out media representing women’s liberation through a patriarchal gaze, how can we reclaim the visual language to share more authentic stories? How can our art share the stories of women, trans women, and non-binary folks written out of the history books? How does your work give voice to the overlooked and underrepresented? 

Hera Gallery presents 52 works that rewrite this cultural consciousness for a more inclusive human history.”

I am honored to have two pieces in this salient exhibition, and to participate in a small way, in Rewriting Her/Our/Their Story.

 

Please see the SHOW in its entirety HERE.

My works in the show:
WHITE ZIP

and
INTO THE BUSH

Please see the SHOW here.

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Exhibitions, MEDIA, TEXTILE/FIBER, Textiles/Fiber/Cloth, Venues, Women Artists, Work Tagged With: Artist Book, authentic stories, Bechdel test, cultural consciousness, Elizabeth Lesser, Female, Feminism, Feminist, Fiber, girl, girls, Hera, Hera Educational Foundation and Gallery, Hera Gallery, Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, inclusive human history, International Women's Day, Into the Bush, Omega Institute, Rewriting Her Story, Rewriting stories, Story, Tapestry, Textiles, White Zip, Women, Women's Month, Women's stories, women’s liberation

Deep Dive into “DWELLINGS” at Artlink

January 2, 2025 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to be part of a beautiful and timely show, “DWELLINGS” at Artlink, housed in the Auer Center for Arts and Culture in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Learn about and view the show HERE!

I love participating in shows all over the country, and see the extraordinary talent, diversity of media, level of skill and and passion for expression manifesting itself across the United States at all times.  This helps me to feel connection, hope and the sense of belonging to a creative force working to resist cruelty, negativity, smallness and isolationism. Brava to the brave and resilient gallerists, curators, organizations, funders, institutions and artists working tirelessly to support the growth of the human spirit into its most elevated aspirations.

“For the exhibition DWELLINGS, juried Steve Garst, Artlink invited artists to submit works of any media that involve homes, shelters, forts, nests, burrows, or any other forms of inhabited space used by humans or non-humans. Where a creature lays its head can be a place of refuge, sustenance, and identity.  They are cauldrons of growth, filled with love, hurt, anger, learning, and memory.  Often, homes are constructed and, in turn, end up constructing the lives of those who dwell within them, for better or worse.  Artlink is excited to offer an exhibition exploring the variety of human and non-human places that serve as home, in all its numerous manifestations.”

My artists’ book “Window Treatment” is in the show and I am proud to be in such good company.

Please see a video of the SHOW HERE!

 

 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, Presentations, Venues, Work Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, ARTLINK, Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Book as Art, Book as Sculpture, Conceptual Books, Domicile, DWELL, Dwelling, Dwellings, DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces, Group Exhbition, Handmade Books, Home, Inhabited spaces, Place, Sculptural Books, Sculpture, Space, Steve Garst, Window Treatment

K no W Safe Place to Know Safe Space

December 28, 2024 By Debra Disman

I am looking to expand, extend, experiment with and explore the possibilities of 
K no W Safe Place
, 2023, 60 x 48 x 48″ canvas, netting, hemp/nylon/cotton cord, lace, ribbon, paint, wood

I would like to transform it into the focal point and destination of a total environment:  Know Safe Space.

Firstly, by adding a roof, that would be created in the same manner, and materials, as its two sides and one back wall: substrate surface of canvas essentially draped over a black-painted dowel, hung from the ceiling with fishline, and tied to the corners of the back and side walls by its corners.

Not being a trained draftsperson, architectural or otherwise, I am visualizing this by drawing over a photograph of the original piece from different vantage points, views or perspectives.
 

It is a magical process of making, contemplation, and visualization, and the first concrete step to transforming a dream into reality.

To Be Continued….

 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, New Work, TEXTILE/FIBER, Textiles/Fiber/Cloth, Women Artists, Work Tagged With: booklets, Bookmaking, Environment, Fiber, Handmade Book, Immersive, immersive environment, Installation, Khipa, kNOw Safe Place, kNOw safe space, New Work, No Safe Place, No Safe Space, Participation, Performance, Public engagement, Quipa, Quipas, Safe place, Safe Space, Sanctuary, Sculpture, Shelter, Structure, Textile, To find safe space, To Know Safe Space, zines

Upcoming Exhibitions 2025

December 14, 2024 By Debra Disman

I am excited to start off the new year with two exhibitions, and appreciate the opportunity to share and commune with others, near and far.

DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces
January 2 – February 2, 2025
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I am thrilled to participate in the exhibition: “DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces” at ARTLINK, at the Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, Indiana. I love to get my work involved in events and shows all across the country and in areas not considered major art centers, and off the edges of the US. I find the commitment and caliber of shows, curators/jurors, artists and work to be audacious and  inspiring on all fronts. “For the exhibition DWELLINGS, juried Steve Garst, Artlink invited artists to submit works of any media that involve homes, shelters, forts, nests, burrows, or any other forms of inhabited space used by humans or non-humans. Where a creature lays its head can be a place of refuge, sustenance, and identity.  They are cauldrons of growth, filled with love, hurt, anger, learning, and memory.  Often, homes are constructed and, in turn, end up constructing the lives of those who dwell within them, for better or worse.  Artlink is excited to offer an exhibition exploring the variety of human and non-human places that serve as home, in all its numerous manifestations.” I am showing “Window Treatment”

Window Treatment
, 2018, 13 x 38 x 9.25″, mixed media

VIEW THE SHOW HERE!

and close upon DWELLINGS,

The 2025 LA OPEN, at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles
January 8 – February 24, 2025

I am thrilled to show two works in this fun and fantastic annual show!

The Body Politic: Black and Gold
, 2024, 8.5 x 23 x 7″, book board, paint, canvas, metal leaf, lace, cord, netting, trim, beads

Hopes and Fears and…
, 2020, 24.5 x 16.25″, textile samples, linen thread

View the SHOW here!

Illustrious JUROR: Genie Davis 
Genie Davis is a writer who loves and writes about art as well as a wide range of other subjects as a journalist, biographer, novelist, and WGA-W screen and television writer. You can see her written work in the arts on her own www.diversionsLA.com as well as in past publications of Artillery, Art & Cake, Art Scene, Fabrik, and Riot Material.
She is the curator of 2023’s Leaving Eden, a two-person thematic exhibition at Keystone Art Space; September 2024’s Thresholds, a small group exhibition at Gallery of Hermosa; and upcoming in March 2025, the international exhibition Windswept at Wonzimer Gallery.

Here’s to meeting and marching into the New Year, with courage, bravery, heart and honesty, as much as we can…

 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Exhibitions, New Work, Presentations, TEXTILE/FIBER, Textiles/Fiber/Cloth, Venues, Work Tagged With: 2025, ARTLINK, Arts Scene, Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Diversity, Domicile, DWELL, Dwellings, DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces, Genie Davis, Group Exhbition, Home, LA Arts Scene, LA Contemporary Art, LA Contemporary Artists, LA OPEN, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles Exhbition, Midwest, new exhibitions, new shows, New Year, Place, Space, Steve Garst, TAG, Tag Gallery, The Artists Gallery, USA, Vitality

Making Art Inspired By Great Artists: “Channeling” Louise Nevelson

December 11, 2024 By Debra Disman

It was great fun to work with my girrrrlll power (my moniker) CREST Santa Monica Malibu School District after school programming students for our last meeting of our “Making Art Inspired By Great Artists” class, inspired by extraordinary artist Louise Nevelson.

The girrrllls (from grades 1-5!) used a variety of scrap and other wood object and pieces to create their own sculptural constructions using wood glue. They became designers, planners, builders, engineer and of course, artists and sculptors. Very inspiring!

 

Filed Under: All She makes, ARTISTS, Student Work, Teaching Artist, Women Artists, Work Tagged With: After school art program, Community Arts, Community Arts programs, CREST, CREST after school arts program, elementary school art programs, Girl Power, girls making artworks, girrrlll, girrrlll power, Louise Nevelson, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Pyublic School System, SANTA MONICA, Santa Monica Art offerings, Santa monica Art program, Santa Monica Malibu School sustem, Santa Monica Malubu Unified School District, Santa Monica School System, scrap wood, Sculpture, smmusd, Students Artists, Women Artists, wood constructions, Wood sculpture, Youth art programs

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