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SUMMARY:Exhibitionista: IDENTITY at Art Fluent
DESCRIPTION:“IDENTITY is a display of aspects that usually remain hidden—a bittersweet and raw take on what churns inside us. We all have a certain idea of who we are through our identity\, but to get there\, we need to probe beneath the surface. To get a sense of ourselves\, we need to explore who we are\, how we are viewed by the world\, and the characteristics that define us. This exhibit explores our beliefs\, qualities\, expressions\, and personalities that collectively form our identity.” \nI am honored to participate in this exhibition\, showing “White Zip“. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/exhbitionista-identity-at-art-fluent/
LOCATION:Art Fluent
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:RECOVERY JUSTICE: Being Well
DESCRIPTION:I am thrilled to participate in: \nRECOVERY JUSTICE: Being Well\nMarch 8\, 2021 – September 11\, 2021\nat\n18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“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. \nThis 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.” \nParticipating 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. \nSara 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.\nABOUT THE FACILITATOR\n(such a joy working with Sara)\nSara 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. \nHer 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. \nPictured is  “Womb”\, 2021\, (plastic\, canvas\, jute cord) and “I Smile At You With My Eyes”\, 2021\, cardboard\, magazine pages\, acrylic paint\, 
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/recovery-justice-being-well/
LOCATION:18th Street Arts Center Airport Gallery\, 3026 Airport Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Exhibitionista: conVERGEnce at MarinMOCA
DESCRIPTION:I am thrilled to be participating in MarinMOCA’s upcoming exhibition:\nconVERGEnce!\n“In a time of extraordinary flux\, this exhibit will explore concepts of merging\, verging and combining in shape\, form\, color\, and meaning. How do artists investigate coming together—or coming apart—in their practice? The exhibit will feature artists from around the country working in a variety of media. \nThe exhibit has been juried by Susan Snyder who is a partner with Oliver Caldwell in the Caldwell Snyder Gallery\, a leading contemporary art gallery representing many of the most significant international painters and sculptors of the 21st century. Founded in 1983\, the gallery now has three locations in San Francisco\, St. Helena\, and Montecito.” \nThese are the participating artists. \nI am showing\, “Hopes and Fears and…” 2020\, 24.5 x 16.25\, mixed media (textile samples\, linen thread) \n \n\n \n\n  \n 
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/exhibitionista-convergence-at-marinmoca/
LOCATION:MarinMOCA\, 500 Palm Drive\, Novato\, California\, CA\, 94949\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Exhibitionista: Backroads: Art\, Less Traveled at Vestige Concept Gallery
DESCRIPTION:I am thrilled to be participating in the exhibition: \n\nBackroads: Art\, Less-Traveled\nOPENING RECEPTION: Saturday\, June 5th\, 2021\, 6 PM w/ Special Musical Guest:  Reid Magette! \nThis exhibit showcases works of art that venture off the beaten path\, especially with regard to travel.   Artwork includes places or experiences involving hidden gems\, special or unusual places\, wanderings\, odd travel\, strange encounters\, and/or “lost” and fading places.\n​See new work from: Paul Roden\, Heather Wendelboe\, Julia Scheckel\, Bengu Cetinkale\, Kent Klaudt\, Hannah Ayers\, Edward Rossel\, Walt Padgett\, Majorie and Bob Moskowitz\, Mark Dierker\, Debra Disman\, Kate Snow\, Jeffrey Neumann\, Paige Kleinfelder\, and more! \n\n\n5417 Butler Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15201\ncontact@vestigegallery.com\nTel: ‪(412) 532-8969‬ \n\n\nAlexander Sands |  Owner/Artist\nKelsey Dennis |  Media Director \nView the show!
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/exhibitionista-backroads-art-less-traveled-at-vestige-concept-gallery/
LOCATION:Vestige Concept Gallery\, 5417 Butler Street\, Pittsburgh\,\, PA\, 15201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Exhibitionista: The Fine Art of Denim at Pollak Gallery\, Monmouth University Center for the Arts
DESCRIPTION:I am excited to be included in:\n\n\n\n\nat Monmouth University Center for the Arts Pollak Gallery\nJune 17 – August 14 \, 2021\n \n \nDenim\, with all its symbols and dualities\, is a common item of clothing that unites many around the globe. Dad Jeans\, skinny jeans\, low riders\, bell bottoms\, boot leg\, wide leg\, no leg\, 501s\, 504s\, button fly\, stretch jeans\, the American dress code writ large across centuries. With so many styles available and ways to accessorize/manipulate the fabric\, denim has historically allowed for a freedom of expression representing both individuality and shifts in cultural movements. Denim comes in a wide range of blues and other colors\, washes\, fades and textures making it a perfect\, but not obvious\, medium to create fine artwork. Join us now\, for a re-imagining of the meaning of denim. Denim that was discarded can open up a new way of looking\, a startling way of seeing past the everyday. What we have abandoned\, will be presented again\, re-purposed from the lives we lived\, to moments we experience together “forever in blue jeans.” \nMonmouth University’s Center for the Art is exhibiting the work of artists  who use recycled denim in new and creative ways in paintings\, sculpture\, collages\, small constructions and wall hangings\, etc. from June 17 – August 14 \, 2021 in the Pollak Gallery. Works shown use denim as the principal medium of the piece and the fabric are reconstructed from its original form in some way.  \n \nSee The Show Here!\n\n\n 
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/exhibitionista-the-fine-art-of-denim-at-pollak-gallery-monmouth-university-center-for-the-arts/
LOCATION:Pollak Gallery\, Monmouth University Center for the Arts\, 400 Cedar Ave\, \,\, West Long Branch\, NJ\, 07764\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibitionista: LIMINAL at Verum Ultimum Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Verum Ultimum Gallery tasks artists to define “Liminal” for this first edition of this exhibition.\nI am thrilled to be part of this first edition of the theme: LIMINAL\, at Verum Ultimum Gallery through which artists are invited to explore the theme\, LIMINAL in any interpretation. Pictured: my work  The Gates\, (interior)\, 2019\, 7.5 x 20 x 10.25”\, mixed media/sculptural artists’ book. \n\n\nLiminal is the space between. What significance does transition (or the “space between“) have in your work or your artistic voice? Does your work reflect the liminal aspects of our pandemic-impacted world and the adaptation to a post pandemic existence? Does your work represent and or challenge the threshold to a more equitable society? Or\, perhaps it reflects a vehicle for expression through pure abstraction. \nAs with all Verum Ultimum’s calls for art\, the curator never seeks to drive the work\, the only hope is to unveil unique visions. All mediums and modes of expression have been welcomed from low brow\, pop surrealism\, realism\, abstraction\, and more. The term Liminal may be interpreted in many ways\, and is not necessarily meant to be a literal elucidation. \nLiminal is defined as\n1. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.\n2. occupying a position at\, or on both sides of\, a boundary or threshold.\n​One could argue that artists are conditioned to occupy the liminal state. And a successful studio is a space in flux\, poised for adaptation (to projects\, challenges\, and materials). The focus of the artist is the creative process or the place between the 2 boundaries of “the beginning” and “the outcome or result.” \nA gallery benefits from maintaining that liminal state\, too (adaptation is a constant). \nVerum Ultimum is celebrating it’s eighth year and this exhibition serves to herald the artists unique vision…especially during these challenging times! \nView the Show!!!
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/liminal-at-verum-ultimum-art-gallery/
LOCATION:Verum Ultimum Gallery\, 3014 NE Ainsworth\, Portland\, OR\, 97211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Exhibitionista: 2021 INTERNATIONAL ART OF THE BOOK Show
DESCRIPTION:I am thrilled that Burning Bush has been accepted into the Rochester Public Library’s 2021 International Art of the Book show. \n \n\nTHE 2021 ART OF THE BOOK & PAPER SCULPTURE\n“In 2011\, we held the first Art of the Book exhibit in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Rochester Public Library. At the time\, we wanted to celebrate what has been at the core of libraries for centuries–the book. We marveled over the intricate interpretations of this humble format\, and we were thrilled with the response to the exhibit from the community.” \n“In subsequent years\, the exhibit has grown to include entries from all over the world\, featuring well-known artists for their exquisite work. We have built a reputation worldwide among book artists\, and we are so pleased to see that reputation upheld. \nBooks continue to ensnare the imagination\, both for their form and content. Artists manipulate those two components to create breathtaking\, mind-bending works of art that tease and cajole people to consider the intricacies of paper\, ink\, words\, and meaning. \nIn commemoration of the 10th Anniversary\, we are adding Paper Sculpture as a new category. This new category will celebrate the extraordinary use of paper\, in an art form that combines or shapes papers.” \nArtist Books are…\nworks of art realized in the form of a book. They are often published in small editions\, though sometimes they are produced as one-of-a-kind objects referred to as ‘unique.’ Artist Books have employed a wide range of forms including scrolls\, fold-outs\, concertinas\, or loose items contained in a box\, as well as bound printed sheets. Artists have been active in printing and book production for centuries\, but the artist book is primarily a late 20th century art form. \nAltered Books are…\nany book\, old or new\, that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art. They can be rebound\, painted\, cut\, burned\, folded\, added to\, collaged in\, gold-leafed\, rubber stamped\, drilled or otherwise adorned…and yes\, it is legal. They can also be composed entirely of unique materials. \nPaper Sculptures are…\nartworks created as sculptures using paper in some form as the predominant medium. These sculptures are three-dimensional and can be either free-standing or bas relief and would be considered art forms in themselves.  Paper sculpture can be functional or non-functional with attention to pushing the limits of how paper can be used and explores paper in inventive and unique ways. \nJuly 9\, 2021: Show opens\nSeptember 15\, 2021: Reception\, Award Ceremony\, 10th Anniversary party(date subject to change)\nOctober 30\, 2021: Exhibition closes.\nView the show:  AOB_2021_Program (1)\n 
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/exhibitionista-2021-international-art-of-the-book-show/
LOCATION:Rochester Public Library\, 115 South Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14604\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:LEFT/RIGHT/HERE: An Outdoor Art Experience
DESCRIPTION:Please Join Us For: \nLEFT/RIGHT/HERE: An Outdoor Art Experience\n\nJuly 10\, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm\n\n\n\n\nLEFT/ RIGHT/ HERE\nAn Outdoor Art Experience\nPart of Recovery Justice: Being Well \nJuly 10\, 2021 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM\n3026 Airport Ave\, Santa Monica\, 90405 \nOutdoor projections begin at 8 PM\, at sunset. Lionel Popkin’s Six Positions on Uncertainty live performances in the Main Propeller Gallery are at 7:45 PM and 8:45 PM.\nWe will be allowing visitors into the gallery (masks required)\, and to view open studios\, please register for faster check-in at the door. \n \nWhere is here? Can we be together? Can we find stability amidst uncertainty? Join artists Lionel Popkin\, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario\, Yrneh Gabon and Susie McKay Krieser\, Lola del Fresno\, Luciana Abait\, Nicola Goode\, Cognate Collective’s Market Exchange project\, and Debra Disman in a one-night only interactive outdoor and indoor art experience as part of the exhibition Recovery Justice: Being Well. \nBegin and end your experience with a special screening projected onto the Hanger and live performance of Popkin’s Six Positions on Uncertainty in the Propeller Gallery\, contemplating a ritual to aid in both grounding oneself as well as working through the idea of social isolation due to the pandemic. \n\nView vinyl murals including Gabon and McKay Kreiser’s Oneness\, One Mask\, One Love\, One Heart🖤; Fresno’s The innocents (save a million lives); and Abait’s Mattress from Displacement Series on the Hangar’s Glider Wall outdoor gallery.\nCheck out Marcus Kuiland-Nazario’s Sea Change Lab pop-wagon project\, with live performance and installation in the parking lot. ALEXANDMUSHI will be performing their Chair Conversations throughout the evening. Learn more about their performance here.\nDiscover Debra Disman’s new video filmed by videographer Jeny Amaya around self-compassion and book making and see her Artists’ Book\, “Unfolding Possibilities”\, which incorporates words offered up by the community in response to the pandemic through her Arts Learning Lab workshop: Bookmaking with Compassion\, and pick up a copy of Nicola Goode’s limited edition poster with images from Board-Ups\, a project documenting storefronts of Santa Monica’s business district during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.\nExplore the handmade wares of artisan vendors from Cognate Collective’s Market Exchange project\, and experience their crafting demonstrations. Learn more here: https://marketexchange.18thstreet.org/ \nEnjoy food trucks and artist open studios throughout the night!\n\nThis is a live\, in-person event. Masks will be required at all times indoors. Reservations are required.  \nYou may choose to drive through the event\, but due to the June 15 California re-opening\, we will also allow visitors to park and enter inside the galleries to view the exhibition Recovery Justice: Being Well\, Lionel Popkin’s live performance\, and artist open studios. \n\n\nJoin Us!\nRegister here
URL:https://debradisman.com/event/left-right-here-an-outdoor-art-experience/
LOCATION:18th Street Arts Center Airport Gallery\, 3026 Airport Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Presentations
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