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New Work
RAW FOOTAGE: With The Artist: Debra Disman Part I
Please see VIDEO of the “KnoW Safe Place”
“With The Artist: Debra Disman Part I“
In conversation with Erika Sukstorf
developer of “raw footage” (more to come)
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Raw Sound: The Podcast with Erika Sukstorf
In Conversation with the inimitable Erika Sukstorf….
We listen, we talk, we listen again…
Raw Conversation Podcast Part 1:
Raw Conversation Podcast Part 2
Mazur Museum showcases Contemporary Artists Throughout the US
I am thrilled to participate in “The 62nd Annual Juried Competition” at The Mazur Museum of Art!
The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. First started in 1964, the Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year. This year, 1400 artworks were submitted by artists all over the nation, in all styles and media.
Exhibition on view Feb 20 – May 3, 2025
Public Reception: January 20, 2025 5:30 – 7:30 PM
I am honored to show: “The Body Politic: Black and Gold”
2024, 8.5 x 23 x 7″, bk board, paint, canvas, metal leaf, lace, cord, netting, trim, beads
About the Juror
Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, who has curated several exhibitions for the Masur Museum of Art including Kogyo: Japanese Woodblock Prints (2022), Treasures of Art Nouveau (2019) and Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia (2018). Her more recent projects include Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum and A Creative Place at the Trout Museum of Art. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins has a MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
62nd Annual Juried Competition – Public Reception
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Juror’s talk and awards: 6:30 PM
Receptions at the Masur Museum of Art are free and open to the public. Light food and refreshments are served and ID for alcoholic beverages is required. Parking at the museum is limited so carpooling is suggested.
K no W Safe Place to Know Safe Space
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
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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….
Upcoming Exhibitions 2025
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 at
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…