Debra Disman

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Book as Art

EXHIBITIONISTA: “Book / Art / Artifact”

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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,

 

Book / Art / Artifact: Work from the CA Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers

EXHIBITION DATES: Saturday, June 11 – Sunday, August 28, 2022

The exhibition Book/Art/Artifact showcases work from the California Chapter of the national organization the Guild of Book Workers. Book/Art/Artifact is the third major members’ exhibition; previous exhibitions have been presented at the Geisel Special Collections Library at the University of California San Diego (2016) and the Long Beach Museum of Art (2019). As with previous exhibitions, Book/Art/Artifact highlights a range of member expertise and imagination. Exhibited mediums include bookbinding, letterpress, artists’ books, and calligraphy. The exhibition introduces viewers to the idea that books are not only a collection of bound pages but also an expression of human creativity.

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The exhibition Book/Art/Artifact showcases work from the California Chapter of the national organization the Guild of Bookworkers. Book/Art/Artifact is the third major members’ exhibition; previous exhibitions have been presented at the Geisel Special Collections Library at the University of California San Diego (2016) and the Long Beach Museum of Art (2019). As with previous exhibitions, Book/Art/Artifact highlights a range of members expertise and imagination. Exhibited mediums include bookbinding, letterpress, artists’ books, and calligraphy. The exhibition introduces viewers to the idea that books are not only a collection of bound pages but also an expression of human creativity.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Cathy Adelman, Yukimi Annand, Marlyn Bonaventure , Robin Brandes , Servane Briand, Carolee Campbell / Ninja Press , Rebecca Chamlee / Pie in the Sky Press, Coleen Curry, Insiya Dhatt, Debra Disman, Anna Embree, Jean Gillingwators, Karen Hanmer, Paula Jull, Marie Kelzer / Marie Kelzer Designs , Mark Kirchner, Brian Lieske, Elaine Nishizu, Patricia Owen, Todd Pattison, Jennifer Pellacchia, Beth Redmond, Sue Ann Robinson, Pamela Wood


Exhibition CATALOG designed by Rebecca Chamlee

 

Fantastical….2022!

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I am honored to be participating in FANTASTIC FIBERS, (2022), an international juried exhibition that seeks to showcase a wide range of outstanding works related to the fiber medium. It was a wonderful experience to be a part of FANTASTIC FIBERS 2021, and i very much look forward to seeing (albeit online) all the works in this year’s show!

One of Yeiser Art Center’s most engaging, innovative & colorful international exhibits, Fantastic Fibers is an inspirational must-see for fine artists, quilters and textile art enthusiasts across the globe. The exhibition is comprised of contemporary and innovative works created with fiber as the primary medium or concept

The show began in 1987 as a wearable art show but has evolved over the years to include a compelling mix of traditional and non-traditional works created from natural or synthetic fibers, and work that addresses the subject or medium of fiber.

View a video of the show here!

JUROR: Matt Collinsworth
Matt Collinsworth became the new CEO of the National Quilt Museum during the summer of 2021.  Matt attended Georgetown College in central Kentucky and received his MFA from Ohio State.  He has been directing nonprofit organizations since 1998 and museum’s and other cultural organizations since 2003.  Matt has served as Director of the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Senior Director of Cultural Outreach at Morehead State University, Interim Director of the Lexington Art League, and Director of the National Music Museum.  Matt has curated and co-curated dozens of exhibitions that have appeared at museums and galleries across the country, including national and international traveling shows. He also produced numerous major exhibition catalogs, overseen large cultural events, and led several facility renovation projects. Matt lives in Paducah’s Lowertown Arts District with his wife, Kelly, his son, Eli, and (when she’s home from college) his daughter, Brynn.

I am especially thrilled to be showing “Excavation of the Interior”, a work completed in 2021, made of wood, mulberry paper, watercolor paper, muslin, canvas, hemp cord and linen thread.



Artist Amy Usdin photographs the show!


Exterior/Closed


Interior/Open


Interior/Detail


Exterior/Closed


Exterior/Spine-Back

35th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper

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I am thrilled to be part of this exciting SHOW!

I am honored to have two pieces in the 35th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper exhibition, opening Thursday March 24, 2022 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.

Stop by if you are in the area!

I am showing:

Prairie, 10.25″ x 47″ x 15.25″, Mixed Media: Book Board, Paper Board, Watercolor Paper, Tissue Paper, Jute Cord

(Exterior/Front Cover)
(Interior/Open)
(Exterior/Open)

Burning Bush,  7.5 x 11 x 5.5″, Mixed Media: Repurposed Journal (board), Mulberry Paper, Linen Thread, Sewing Thread

(Interior/Open)

(Exterior/Open)

(Interior Detail)

Listen to juror Jennifer Dasal’s talk HERE!
“Walk” through the show HERE!
View all the wonderful works in the show HERE!

EXHIBITIONISTA: 35th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper

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I am honored 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.

Listen to Jennifer Dasal’s talk HERE!

“Walk” through the show HERE!

I am showing “PRAIRIE”  

and

“BURNING BUSH”

View all the wonderful works in the show HERE!

Sharing the words of Juri Koll

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I am honored to share the words of the artist, curator, filmmaker and fonder/director of Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Juri Koll:

Thank you Juri, for your time, your care, and your comprehension of my work.

It means a great deal.

NEW WORK in 2021: Red Notebook (“Here’s To The Red, White and Blue”)

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I was happy to finally be able to have Elon Schoenholz Photography in to photographs works completed/created during 2021, which continues to race by.

Part of an ensemble, suite, or installation of works entitled, “Here’s To The Red, White and Blue”, Red Notebook is structured as a “traditional” codex, with covers that open and pages that turn.  Moderately, “red” (hence the “red” element of the “Red, White and Blue” theme-meme-trope?) it contains a great deal of black as well.
In the immortal words of  Mark Rothko, “There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend;  One day, the black will swallow the red.”

Made from a repurposed placemat, hemp cord, linen thread, canvas, and lace, it is 8.5″ high, 12.5″ when opened in full, and 6.5″ at greatest depth and opens left to right, from cover through pages to cover, bound together through a single signature.


The red and back play off each other in all their associations


Sewing, stitching, gluing, knotting, coiling, massing


Amassing, accumulation, the RED in


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