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I am honored to be showing "Window Treatment" as part of the "A Thousand Words" show at Core New Art Space! "A Thousand Words" presents works that tell a story. […]
The California Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers presents:
A workshop led by Debra Disman
Saturday, June 5, 2021
1:00 – 4:00 pm, Pacific Time
Presented live via Zoom
The “Folded Fan Book,” Debra Disman’s personal name for this fun and versatile book structure, is comprised of
an accordion spine, two covers, and full size pages which “fan out” when the book is opened.
This structure can be treated as a traditional codex or built into a sculptural form limited only by the
ingenuity, creativity, and innovation of the maker.
Vestige Concept Gallery Presents: Backroads: Art, Less Traveled. This exhibit seeks to showcase 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.
Denim, 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.”
The Book as Art v. 9.0: Muse Presented by the The Decatur Arts Alliance Decatur, Georgia August 13–October 1, 2021. The Decatur Arts Alliance (DAA) presents the ninth edition of the juried exhibition of artists’ books, The Book as Art, August 13–October 1, 2021. This edition will be installed once again at the Decatur Branch […]
Artist books take many forms – from handmade and lusciously tactile to linear and informative, abstract and questioning to sculptural and monumental.
The Decatur Arts Alliance presents the ninth edition of the juried exhibition of artists’ books, The Book as Art v.9: Muse, August 13–October 3, 2021. This show celebrates the book with a wildly varied collection of inventive and spectacular work that challenges expectations. The exhibition will be installed once again at the Decatur Branch of the DeKalb County Public Library.
Join us and start the school year of by learning how to make your very own handbound journal!
Los Angles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Debra Disman will lead you in creating a "single signature" bound book that you can use for writing, drawing, note-keeping, poetry, homework, lists, photographs, recipes and more!
Materials packets available.
Please contact the Panorama City Branch Library for details, and how to pick up your materials!
I am thrilled to participate in the exhibition: Brand 49, the Brand Associates Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, happening September 11 - October 30, 2021, represented in a collaborative artist book work created with contemporary artist Luciana Abait, entitled, "drift". The piece highlights the effect humans are having on our precious and fragile environment, specifically, the melting of the polar icecaps in Antarctica.
I am thrilled to be included in:
EXPO 41, a virtual exhibition of the b.j. spoke gallery
Juror: Sewon Kang, Archivist at The Easton/Bourgeois Archive in NYC. Formerly she served as Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Opening Reception will be held on ZOOM - Saturday, March 5th at 7:00pm (EST).
I am thrilled to have two pieces in the 35th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper exhibition, juried by: Jennifer Dasal, creator and host of ArtCurious Podcast, a podcast about art history, and previously Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art.
I am thrilled to participate in the third exhibition featuring works created by the talented members of the California Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers. at the San Francisco Center for the Book,
"This show will feature innovative and traditional explorations of book arts, paper arts, and paper sculptures, including paper objects, book-art-related objects, altered books, and sculptural and wall-mounted pieces, as well as more traditional artists' books, letterpress printing and bookbinding."