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20×20 INSIGHT

March 10, 2021 By Debra Disman

The Cape Cod Museum of Art presents:  INSIGHT.

When spoken, this word can be broadly understood as – Insight, In Sight and Incite. What is Your interpretation?
I am thrilled to be part of this evocative exhibition, taking place in CCMA’s expansive Hope / McClennen exhibition hall. The show is available virtually on the Museum website.

The juror is Grace Hopkins, gallery director at the Berta Walker Galleries in Provincetown, and Wellfleet, MA,  and an international guidance counselor for the arts. In a 2014 review of her own artwork in The Banner, Susan Rand Brown called Hopkins: “A photographer with the eye and soul of a painter,” and said “The images she shoots suggest the sharply angled details of a Franz Kline, geometric shapes and flat colors of her father (Budd Hopkins) or a sudden burst of translucent layers, which could have been – but definitely are not – details from a collage by Robert Motherwell. Suddenly a viewer feels surrounded by the freshness of expressionist imagery and motion, each piece different, each piece allusive yet quite original.”

523 artworks were submitted by 272 artists from 30 states across the country for INSIGHT. Only 65 artworks have been selected from 60 artists in 16 states.

Says Grace Hopkins of selecting the work for this show: 
“Narrowing down the artwork for this exhibition was challenging. I first had to digest all 500+ submissions as a whole before any threads of meaning could be drawn between the works, and a final cohesive subset could be chosen. As a gallery director I am regularly confronted with an aesthetic puzzle. But, when you throw in the added thematic complexity of INSIGHT and the sheer number of works submitted, making a final selection was both a demanding and rewarding exercise in distillation. I want to thank everyone who came forward and placed their artwork into this pool. Another juror, with different values and sensibilities would have solved this very differently. Your collective vision, ability and insight moved me.”

I am showing MAXIMUM SECURITY:  15 x 18 x 10.25″, mixed media (book board, canvas, watercolor paper, acrylic paint, hemp cord, wood)

This show is sure to be InSIGHTful….Looking Forward!

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Exhibitions, Presentations, Work Tagged With: 2021 Exhibitions, Berta Walker Galleries, Cape Cod Museum of Art, EXHBITION, Grace Hopkins, INSIGHT

Monochrome = BLACK

March 6, 2021 By Debra Disman


“Black Zip, or “Facing Darkness“, 2020, 19 x 18 x .5”, mixed media (canvas, lace, sipper, wood, hemp cord)


“Torrent and Tangle: Keep Your House In Order“, 2019, 10.5 x 25 x 18”, mixed media (book board, mulberry paper, lace, ribbon,
hemp cord, watercolor paper, acrylic paint)


“In the Thicket of It“, 2018, 18 x 30 x 23”, mixed media (book board, canvas, hemp cord, wood, mulberry paper, watercolor paper)


“Maximum Security“, 2018, 15 x 18 x 10.25”, mixed media (book board, canvas, watercolor paper, hemp cord, acrylic paint, wood)


“Black Hang Out“,  2017, 10.25 x 25 x 8”, mixed media (book board, mulberry paper, watercolor paper, canvas, acrylic paint, hemp cord)

 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, New Work, Work Tagged With: Black, Black as Hue, Hue, Limited palette, Minimalism, Mixed media Works, Monochromatic, Monochrome, The Color of Black, The Colors of Black

MEDIA page

February 13, 2021 By Debra Disman

I have been empowered by learning how to update my Site’s MEDIA page!

This is the page in my Site where I share, through word, image and link, everything that pertains to MEDIA that I have been involved in:

Print media
Digital/online media
Film/video
including
Press/listings across platforms
Exhibition catalogues, publicity and tours
Artist talks
and more.

Thank you beloved web and graphic designer Dianna Jacobsen, for the design, the tutalage, the support and the patience …

O, and, the sense of humor!

It has been fun, and enlightening.

Check it out….

M E D I A

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Exhibitions, Presentations, Work Tagged With: Dianna Jacobsen, Dianna Jacobsen Graphic Designer, Graphic Designer, Media, Media Page, Site, Web Designer, Website

“Home Sick”, or, Sick of Home?

February 7, 2021 By Debra Disman

Home sick or sick of home? This international exhibition will present artwork that captures how the tumultuous events of 2020 have shaped personal experiences and artistic practice. Works will be shown that suggest how the phrase “Home Sick” can take on multiple meanings in today’s revolutionary climate. Home Sick will exhibit traditional and contemporary artwork across a wide array of media – painting, photography, drawing, pastels, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, wearable art, sculpture, film, artists’ books, and other new media. 

The Art Effect announces the launch of its new international juried exhibition series and pilot youth museum studies program in 2021. Home Sick will be The Art Effect’s inaugural national juried exhibition in its new 3,000-sq-ft gallery at the Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn in the heart of the City of Poughkeepsie. This exciting exhibition will be on display February 25 – April 1, 2021.

“Home Sick will serve as a core component of a pilot program to put youth in the “driver’s seat” leading exhibitions and programming at the Trolley Barn,” says Executive Director Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt. Youth at The Art Effect developed the exhibition theme to invite artists to capture how the concept of being “home sick” can take on multiple meanings in light of a tumultuous year such as 2020.

Curator Mary-Kay Lombino, Deputy Director and Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, will work closely with The Art Effect youth to juror the show made up of submissions from around the world. ”We’re very excited to have youth work alongside established curators like Mary-Kay to co-create high-quality exhibitions and develop the skills needed to pursue careers in the art museum field” noted Fenichel-Hewitt.

I am thrilled to show “BedTime Story” in this innovative show, and support the young jurrors and experienced curator in their combined efforts.
“BedTime Story” 2018, 12 x 28 x 8.5″, mixed media/artists’ book: book board, repurposed textiles, cloth and fabric, hemp cord, ceramics with beads created by Judy Disman.

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, Exhibitions, Work Tagged With: "Home Sick", Art in the time of Covid, Exhibitions, Groups Shows, Home\Theme-Home, Mary-Kay Lombino, The Art Effect, The Art Effect at the Trolly Barn Gallery, Youth Jurors

RECOVERY JUSTICE: Being Well

January 31, 2021 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to participate in:

RECOVERY JUSTICE: Being Well

March 8, 2021 – July 16, 2021
at
18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus)

“Being Well” is what we seek together as neighbors, and recalls one of the central guiding principles of the City of Santa Monica, the notion of “wellbeing” as key to civic health. Recovery Justice: Being Well, aims to highlight the recent circumstances that have evolved during the pandemic (racial justice demonstrations and destruction, as well as social discontent and general disconnection) into a series of self-organized artist projects that merges the exterior and interior public spaces of City of Santa Monica property. 18th Street Airport Campus at Santa Monica Municipal Airport will be the site where artists reimagine the city and beyond in the midst of complex social unrest globally. Recovery Justice will recuperate through various means the digital and physical footprints left in a city that struggles to reclaim the seemingly peaceful environment it once had. Artists will develop a palette for making and sharing artworks responding to the street experience in safe, healing and expressive modes. This porous series is a point of departure to reconcile and redefine the concept of justice.

This collage of self-organized artist projects was organized around the common theme of Recovery Justice, facilitated as part of Sara Daleiden’s artist project and ongoing conversations nurtured through a series of online conversations with 18th Street’s artist community called “Creative Roundtables” over the past 8 months. These projects will manifest in outdoor presentations on the side of the building; sculptural, photographic, painting and video work in the galleries; and a series of online and drive-in events in Spring of 2021. The artists’ presentations will also be represented online and via a 360 tour for virtual viewing.”

Participating artists include: Sara Daleiden, Nicola Goode, Susie McKay Krieser, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, M Susan Broussard, Lionel Popkin, Yrneh Gabon Brown, Lola del Fresno, Debra Disman, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Gregg Chadwick, Luciana Abait, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Rebecca Youssef, and Dan S. Wang.

Sara Daleiden’s residency and facilitation work on these projects is generously supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Bailiwik is also a supporting partner on this exhibition.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
(such a joy working with Sara)
Sara Daleiden is a Los Angeles-based artist who facilitates civic engagement within developing landscapes, exercising arts and cultural exchange strategies. She encourages local cultures to value neighborhoods, public space, civic art, land and racial and gender equity. Sara has an expertise in working with artists and other cultural entrepreneurs for civic engagement, creative placemaking, network development and small business development.

Her project at 18th Street Arts Center grows out of the placekeeping work that 18th Street has been engaged in over the past six years through our cultural asset mapping project (culturemapping90404.org) and the Commons Lab, which involves community voices to define, center, and connect cultural practices within their own neighborhoods. Her practice investigates the influence of location, scale, market, values and other regional factors on the production of the arts and cultural identity. Through methodologies involving partnership mapping, network building, and the facilitation of self-organizing and advocacy, Sara aims to enhance the advocacy power of artists in influencing neighborhood development in the city. Her durational engagement with 18th Street will spin off land-based activations with opportunities for neighbors, artists, city staff, and the broader public to participate. Sara has been collaborating with arts workers Nicola Goode, Susannah Laramee Kidd, Dorit Cypis and Kimberli Meyer for this artist project.

Pictured is “drift”, a collaboration between myself, and esteemed 18th Street colleague and artist, Luciana Abait.

More To Come!!!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, ARTISTS, Exhibitions, New Work, Presentations, Work Tagged With: "drift", 18th Street Arts Center, 18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus), Art as healing, Art in the time of pandemic, Dan S. Wang, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Debra Disman, Exhbitions, Gregg Chadwick, Lionel Popkin, Lola del Fresno, Luciana Abait, M Susan Broussard, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Nicola Goode, Rebecca Youssef, Recovery Art, RECOVERY JUSTICE: Being Well, Sara Daleiden, Susie McKay Krieser, Yrneh Gabon Brown

Watch AROHA Philanthropies: CREATIVE AGING in Action!

January 22, 2021 By Debra Disman

I have been so honored to participate in AROHA Philanthropies Creative Aging initiative, and to work  with  with LA’s beloved Craft Contemporary museum, Curator of Public Engagment Andres Payan Estrada, and Museum Director, Suzanne Isken.

It has been my great joy to teach the AROHA Bookmaking classes for Seniors through Craft Contemporary. I have been so moved to hear and see our participants’ stories expressed through their book projects, and to witness their extraordinary creativity with materials, expression and craft. The opportunity for these students to come together, share about their lives, and weave their personal histories into their projects has been so meaningful, not only for the students, but for myself and the Craft Contemporary Staff. I have been continually amazed at the richness and depth of our participants’ life experiences and their hunger to share them with others.

Our spring workshop series in bookmaking was held in-person, at the Craft Contemporary. When the pandemic hit, we had to pivot to online learning and delivery, and despite the inevidable challenges, our online class community proved to be just as creative, supportive, connective and energetic as our in-person group. An incredible and indelible experience that I will carry with me moving forward.

Russ Haan, owner of After Hours Creative, directed the creation of the following videos sharing about and documenting the process of AROHA’s programming. They are inspiring, moving and energizing to watch. ENJOY!
Creative Aging: The Essentials
Creative Aging: Why Teaching Artists?
Creative Aging: Untapped Opportunity
Creative Aging: Isolation to Connection
Creative Aging: In-Person to Online 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Adults over age 55, After Hours Creative, Andres Payan, Andres Payan Estrada, Aroha Philanthropies, Art Programs for Seniors, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking, Craft Contemporary, Craft Contemporary Museum, Creative Aging, Distance learning, Handmade Books, LACMA, los Angeles County Museum of Art, Older Adults, Online Art programs, Online learning, Russ Haan, Seniors, Suzanne Iksen, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artists

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