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EXPO 44 at B.J. Spoke Gallery

January 25, 2025 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to participate in EXPO 44  presented online by B.J. Spoke Gallery.

Juror: Emily Olek is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before joining MoMA, Emily was the Janet and Craig Duchossois Curatorial Research Assistant in Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked on projects including Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw, Hairy Who? 1966-1969, and Lygia Pape: Tecelares. She also worked on exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Emily recently completed her M.A. at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a concentration in American works on paper and holds a B.A. in Art History from Loyola University Chicago. Her Master’s Thesis entitled “So-Called “Outsiders”: A Case Against the Moniker” won UIC Graduate College’s 2022 Outstanding Thesis Award.

I have two large scale installations in the show. View my WORK  here!

View my WORK in the show here!

Reception will be Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 7:00pm (EST) via ZOOM. The reception will be recorded.
Everybody will be there:
Selected Artists! Juror! Gallery Members! Guests!
Register below and Zoom will send you a link to enter the reception.
JOIN US!
Register HERE for Expo Reception

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Exhibitions, TEXTILE/FIBER, Textiles/Fiber/Cloth, Work Tagged With: 15 person show, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Emily Olek, EXPO 44, Group Exhbition, Group Show, Installation, Installations, International Juried Exhibition, Large Scale works, MOMA, Online Show, ZOOM RECEPTION

K no W Safe Place to Know Safe Space

December 28, 2024 By Debra Disman

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

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….

 

Filed Under: ARTISTS, New Work, TEXTILE/FIBER, Textiles/Fiber/Cloth, Women Artists, Work Tagged With: booklets, Bookmaking, Environment, Fiber, Handmade Book, Immersive, immersive environment, Installation, Khipa, kNOw Safe Place, kNOw safe space, New Work, No Safe Place, No Safe Space, Participation, Performance, Public engagement, Quipa, Quipas, Safe place, Safe Space, Sanctuary, Sculpture, Shelter, Structure, Textile, To find safe space, To Know Safe Space, zines

Open Studio Take 2

October 31, 2024 By Debra Disman

Thrilled to have my nephew Sam visiting and here for our Open Studios at 18th Street.

Thanks to Henry Graham Murray for the images!


Filed Under: Artist in Residence, ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Exhibitions, Presentations, TEXTILE/FIBER, Women Artists, Work Tagged With: 1653 18th Street, 18th Street Arts Center, ARTIST BOOKS, Black Sculpture, CALIFORNIA OPEN, Debra Disman, Family, Fiber, Henry Graham Murray, Installation, Sculpture, Textile, Visitors

K no W Safe Place inside outside

March 20, 2024 By Debra Disman

CLICK FOR VIDEO

Filed Under: ARTISTS, New Work, TEXTILE/FIBER, Work Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, Architectural Space, Contemporary Artist, Debra Disman, Fiber, Fiber-based Artworkd, Installation, K no W Safe Space, Los Angeles-based artist, No Safe Place, No Safe Space, Placew, Safety, Space, Textile, textile artworks

K no wing No Safe Place

February 13, 2024 By Debra Disman

K no W Safe Place, 2023
60 x 48 x 48″ canvas, netting, hemp, nylon cotton cord, lace, ribbon, paint, wood


Photo credit: Gene Ogami


Photo credit: Gene Ogami


Photo Credit: Victoria May

Wake me When it’s Over

Filed Under: ARTISTS, New Work, Presentations, TEXTILE/FIBER, Work Tagged With: Architectural Space, Built Environment, Cloth, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Los Angeles Artist, Cord, Creating Safe Space, Environment, Fabic, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Gene Ogami, HEMP CORD, Installation, K no W Safe Place, Place to enter, Safe place, Safe Space, Safety, Sculpture, Space to Be, String, Textile, Textile Artist, To K no W Safe Space, Victoria May

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

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