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ARTISTS TALK at the IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER!

January 4, 2024 By Debra Disman

In May of 2023 I was privileged to participate in an

IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER

ARTISTS PANEL DISCUSSION

 about the exhibitions NORTH NODE and ARIES RISING exhibitions

It was fun, it was fascinating, it was fitting!

If you would like to see and hear it, please go to:

ARTISTS PANEL

and use the
PASSWORD: !5V@zPur

I was one of six women artists in

ARIES RISING
Curated by Virginia Arce

March 11–May 20, 2023
Irvine Fine Arts Center Main Gallery + Gallery 2

“Rooted in the generative characteristics of spring, Aries Rising presents a collection of sculptural and two-dimensional artworks made of metal, fiber, and mixed media whose sensibilities reflect an organic source. Featured artists in the exhibition share a curiosity about human perception as it relates to the environment, both natural and manmade, reflected in their manipulation of material and form.”

Artists featured:
Renée Azenaro, Debra Disman, Mirena Kim, Sofia V. Gonzales, Zara Kuredjian, and
Susan Lizotte.

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Exhibitions, New Work, Presentations, Women Artists, Work Tagged With: Aries Rising, Art By Women, Art of the Book, Art of Women, Artists in Discussion, ARTISTS' Panel Discussion, Artists' Talk, City of Irvine, Clay, Debra Disman, Exhibition, Fiber, Group Show, Installation, Irvine, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Artists, Metal, Mirena Kim, Mixed media, North Node, Painting, Renée Azenaro, Sculptural, Sculpture, small group show, Sofia V. Gonzales, Susan Lizotte., Virginia Arce, Women Artists, Women-identifying Artists, Zara Kuredjian

“OBJECTS OF AGENCY” Artists Talks

December 22, 2023 By Debra Disman

ARTISTS SPEAK
WOMEN ARTISTS SPEAK
WOMEN ARTISTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Objects of Agency was and is a 52 week long virtual exhibition, through 2023. The exhibition addresses the health care crisis which has recently culminated in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and stripped thousands of people of the right to bodily autonomy. 

“The United States has the worst maternal mortality rate among other similarly developed countries. According to the University of Colorado, due to the Dobbs decision, maternal mortality rates are projected to go up 14%. For women of color, it is 20%. Simply due to women’s health care becoming more restrictive and less accessible.

At the time this call for art was written, when “abortion” was typed into a Google search, the first page result was a misleading website filled with fear slogans and misinformation to prevent women from seeking necessary and viable health care options. A recent research study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate showed that in many right wing states, 1/10 Google search results for abortion services lead to anti-abortion fake clinics. And when abortion was typed into Instagram, the first hashtag was #abortionisevil. Due to activists, advocates, artists, and scientists this scale is tipping to provide accessible, accurate, and viable healthcare information.

So, what can we do to continue the fight for abortion rights? How can we use our creative voices to counteract misinformation and false advertising and provide viable discourse and inspiration?

At Hera Gallery, we invited you to cry, rage, and make art. We invited you to connect with others through creative expression in hopes that it would bring a sense of insight, or deep feeling, beauty, education, perseverance, protest, connection and/or community. Culminating in the virtual exhibition Objects of Agency, we bring you 52 selections of work from artists across the country. 

Each week, Hera Gallery will chose one featured artist and artwork from the exhibition to represent the tribulations and inspirations of the current state of women’s health care in America. Featured artists will be posted on all social media accounts.

Objects of Agency aims to stimulate, educate, and encourage abortion care. It aims to challenge the anti-abortion campaigns and false information which dominate the internet. It aims to provide access to factual information and ultimately to create a platform and a network to share the voices, choices, and stories of all women and female identifying persons.”

Here are the ARTISTS TALKS 1 and 2:
ARTISTS’ TALK 1
ARTISTS’ TALK 2

 

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Abortion, Abortion rights, Agency, Artists on Abortion Rights, Artists' Discussion, Artists' Talk, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Female Agency, Female health, Hera Gallery, Objects of Agency, Political, Politics, Protest, Protest Artworks, Reproductive Rights, Rights, Virtual Exhibition, Women, Women's Body, WOMENS' BODIES, Womens' Issues

“Objects of Agency” Virtual Artists Talk December 21st at 4PM PST, 7PM EST

December 21, 2023 By Debra Disman

Objects of Agency Virtual Artists Talk

https://www.heragallery.org/objects of agency

Please join with ZOOM Link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88407885936?pwd=cW9tcjMwdFBOci9UdDU3K3RBNlFXdz09

Thursday December 21, 2023

 7PM EST / 4PM PST

Objects of Agency is a 52 week long virtual exhibition, through 2023. The exhibition addresses the health care crisis which has recently culminated in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and stripped thousands of people of the right to bodily autonomy.

The United States has the worst maternal mortality rate among other similarly developed countries. According to the University of Colorado, due to the Dobbs decision, maternal mortality rates are projected to go up 14%. For women of color, it is 20%. Simply due to women’s health care becoming more restrictive and less accessible.

At the time this call for art was written, when “abortion” was typed into a Google search, the first page result was a misleading website filled with fear slogans and misinformation to prevent women from seeking necessary and viable health care options. A recent research study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate showed that in many right wing states, 1/10 Google search results for abortion services lead to anti-abortion fake clinics. And when abortion was typed into Instagram, the first hashtag was #abortionisevil. Due to activists, advocates, artists, and scientists this scale is tipping to provide accessible, accurate, and viable healthcare information.

So, what can we do to continue the fight for abortion rights? How can we use our creative voices to counteract misinformation and false advertising and provide viable discourse and inspiration?

At Hera Gallery, we invited you to cry, rage, and make art. We invited you to connect with others through creative expression in hopes that it would bring a sense of insight, or deep feeling, beauty, education, perseverance, protest, connection and/or community. Culminating in the virtual exhibition Objects of Agency, we bring you 52 selections of work from artists across the country.

Each week, Hera Gallery chose one featured artist and artwork from the exhibition to represent the tribulations and inspirations of the current state of women’s health care in America. Featured artists will be posted on all social media accounts.

Objects of Agency aims to stimulate, educate, and encourage abortion care. It aims to challenge the anti-abortion campaigns and false information which dominate the internet. It aims to provide access to factual information and ultimately to create a platform and a network to share the voices, choices, and stories of all women and female identifying persons.

Tagged With: Abortion, Abortion rights, Artists on Abortion, Artists' Talk, Current Issues, Hera Gallery, Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, https://www.heragallery.org/objectsofagency, Objects of Agency, Online Artists' Talk, Reproductive Rights, Row Verses Wade, Virtual Artists Talk, Virtual Exhibition, ZOOM Artists Talk

Artist Talks: The Conversation Between

June 9, 2023 By Debra Disman

I have been fortunate to participate in numerous artist talks over the past several years, which have been illuminating in multiple ways, connecting with others, getting an insight into their work, sharing my own, furthering my experience in talking about it, reaching a wider “audience”.

Here are two of these talks, group conversations between artists, curator and facilitator, online through Zoom, sharing about specific works in specific exhibitions.

“Oh, Mother” Exhibition at The Hera Gallery
“Oh,  Mother” Artists Talk
“Oh, Mother” article

In the spring of 2022, Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation began to talk about our 50th anniversary as one of the first women-run artist cooperatives to open in the United States in 1974. Shortly after this discussion, the leak started to circulate that Roe v. Wade would be overturned before its own 50th feminist anniversary in 2023. The story came out around Mother’s Day. A group of us at Hera started to talk not only about the potential ramifications of the ruling, but also about motherhood itself. While frequently idealized in public discourse, we wanted to look at motherhood in all its complexity, as well as at the absence of desired motherhood. Throughout 2022 the abortion rights discussion swelled and ultimately burst into the Dobb's Decision. Hera’s conversation transitioned to ask, what happens now? Hera began looking for works which spoke to the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the virtual exhibition Objects of Agency, currently on view at heragallery.org. However, our conversation circled back to the bigger picture on the choice of motherhood. We wanted to hear voices not only from the perspective of mothers, but of all the people surrounding mothers and who could be mothers; including their children, partners, and even their parents. We were interested in the voices of mothers who were not born female cis gender, mothers who raise their children alongside other mothers, and everyone else who does not fit the traditional or stereotypical mother mold…..Nadiah Rivera Fella from the Cleveland Museum of Art (was)  juror for the show. Rivera Fella was part of the curatorial team of the 2021/2022 exhibition Picturing Motherhood Now at the Cleveland Museum of Art and thus made an excellent choice for a juror of Oh, Mother.

Participating Artists: Beizar Aradini, Sybil Archibald, Cassie Arnold, Raissa Bailey, Brandin Barón, Jasmine Best, Shweta Bist, Desirae Brown, Joanne Delmonico, Jessica Dietz, Debra Disman, Rebecca Ford, Raquel Fornasaro, Bonnie Jaffe, Marcella Kelley, Leah Klister, Moriah LeFebvre, Roberta Levitow, Madeleine Lord, Caroline McAuliffe, Haley Neville, Linda Plaisted, Sylvie Redmond, Sawyer Rose, Christina Santner, Ellen Shattuck Pierce, Leslie Sills.

“Text/Message” Exhibition
 “Text/Message” Artists Talk

Text/Message focuses on how we use text in fine art. Whether painting, sculpture, mixed media, video, digital, the use of text plays an integral part in telling stories. It can add a poetic layer, or a humorous anecdote. Text can challenge societal assumptions, activate our inner desires or crusade for long held beliefs. Text also lies.

Curated by Kristine Schomaker

ENJOY THE CONVERSATION!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrée Carter, Artist Talk, Artists who use text, Artists' Talk, Austin Brady, Bachrun LoMele Gina M, Beatrice (Bea) Antonie Martino, Briena Harmening, Candice Greathouse, Caro Volny, Chavez Fred Becker, Christopher Taylor, Contemporary, Contemporary Art, Cultural life, Daggi Wallace, Dan Ragland, Darlyn Susan Yee, David E. Weed, Debra Disman, E. Y. Reilly, Education, Gigi Janko, Greg Blair, Group Exhbition, Group Show, Hazel Batrez, Hera, Hera Educational Foundation and Gallery, Hera Gallery, Ian Cross, International Exhibition, Isabel Winson-Sagan, Isabella Cardim, Jack Weaver, Jennie E. Park, Judi Krew, Karen Fiorito, Karen Ruth Karlsson, Katie Mead, Kristine Shomaker, Linda Litteral, Lisa Bahouth, Lisa Cooperman, Lori Markman, Lorraine Woodruff-Long, Margaret Jo Feldman, Maria Trunk, Marie Brix Tyler Brumfield, Martin Gantman, Maternal, Melanie Antuna Hewitt, Message, Monica R Marks, Mother, Nancy McDearmon, Nikyra Capson, Oh Mother, Online Artists' Talk, Online Exhbition, Online Show, Online Talk, Pennie Fien, Renee Bott, Rhode is;land, RI, Sean Tyler, Sheri Lynn Behr, Stephen Anderson, Steven Dick, Test Message, Text, Tom Lasley, Words In Art, Zahra Fard

“A Common Thread” Artist Talk at ArtShare LA

May 22, 2023 By Debra Disman

I was thrilled to participate in the
A COMMON THREAD EXHIBITION ARTIST TALK
May 19 @ 6:00 pm at ArtShare LA!

I share my talk HERE.
Thank you ArtShare LA, for this opportunity.

About the exhibition:

Art Share L.A. proudly presents A Common Thread, an exhibition featuring fiber-based and textile works of art exploring autobiography and social critique, connection and displacement. The artworks in this exhibition are interlinked through themes of history and memory.
Featured artists include: Antoinette Adams, Amabelle Aguiluz, Doris Bittar, A. Laura Brody, Chloe Cusimano, Yasmine Nasser Diaz, Debra Disman, Carmen Mardonez, Carolyn Mason, Michelle Montjoy, Marie-Jose Njoku-Obi, Katie Shanks, Aneesa Shami Zizzo

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amabelle Aguiluz, Aneesa Shami Zizzo, Antoinette Adams, Artist Talk, Artists' Talk, ArtShare LA, Baha Danesh, Beth Stryker, Carmen Mardonez, Carolyn Mason, Chloe Cusimano, Common Thread Community Art Venue, Debra Disman, Doris Bittar, Fiber, Fiber Art, Group Exhibition, Katie Shanks, Marie-Jose Njoku-Obi, Michelle Montjoy, Sharing about work, Textile Artist, Textiles, Thread, Video, Women Artists Contemporary Los Angeles Artist, Yasmine Diaz

Artists’ Panel Discussion: Irvine Fine Arts Center!

April 28, 2023 By Debra Disman

Join us for an online ARTISTS’ Panel Discussion May 13th at Noon!

The artists of the Irvine Fine Arts Center‘s Exhibitions, “Aires Rising” and “North Node” will share, discuss, and celebrate the creative process as seen through their work.

Organized by the incomparable Virginia Arce, Irvine Fine Arts Center Exhibitions Program Coordinator.

Featuring exhibiting artists:
Renee Azenaro
Susan Lizotte, Artist
Miranda Kim
Sophia V Gonzalez
Zara Kuredjian
Debra Disman

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Tagged With: Aries Rising, ARTISTS' Panel Discussion, Artists' Talk, City of Irvine, Debra Disman, exhibiting artists, Exhibition, Fiber, Ir, Irvine, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine Fine Arts Center's Exhibitions, Metal, Mirena Kim, Mixed media, Renée Azenaro, Sculptural, Sculpture, small group show, Sofia V. Gonzales, Susan Lizotte., Virginia Arce, Women Artists, Zara Kuredjian

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