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Upcoming Exhibitions 2025

December 14, 2024 By Debra Disman

I am excited to start off the new year with two exhibitions, and appreciate the opportunity to share and commune with others, near and far.

DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces
January 2 – February 2, 2025
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I am thrilled to participate in the exhibition: “DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces” at ARTLINK, at the Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, Indiana. I love to get my work involved in events and shows all across the country and in areas not considered major art centers, and off the edges of the US. I find the commitment and caliber of shows, curators/jurors, artists and work to be audacious and  inspiring on all fronts. “For the exhibition DWELLINGS, juried Steve Garst, Artlink invited artists to submit works of any media that involve homes, shelters, forts, nests, burrows, or any other forms of inhabited space used by humans or non-humans. Where a creature lays its head can be a place of refuge, sustenance, and identity.  They are cauldrons of growth, filled with love, hurt, anger, learning, and memory.  Often, homes are constructed and, in turn, end up constructing the lives of those who dwell within them, for better or worse.  Artlink is excited to offer an exhibition exploring the variety of human and non-human places that serve as home, in all its numerous manifestations.” I am showing “Window Treatment”

Window Treatment
, 2018, 13 x 38 x 9.25″, mixed media

VIEW THE SHOW HERE!

and close upon DWELLINGS,

The 2025 LA OPEN, at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles
January 8 – February 24, 2025

I am thrilled to show two works in this fun and fantastic annual show!

The Body Politic: Black and Gold
, 2024, 8.5 x 23 x 7″, book board, paint, canvas, metal leaf, lace, cord, netting, trim, beads

Hopes and Fears and…
, 2020, 24.5 x 16.25″, textile samples, linen thread

View the SHOW here!

Illustrious JUROR: Genie Davis 
Genie Davis is a writer who loves and writes about art as well as a wide range of other subjects as a journalist, biographer, novelist, and WGA-W screen and television writer. You can see her written work in the arts on her own www.diversionsLA.com as well as in past publications of Artillery, Art & Cake, Art Scene, Fabrik, and Riot Material.
She is the curator of 2023’s Leaving Eden, a two-person thematic exhibition at Keystone Art Space; September 2024’s Thresholds, a small group exhibition at Gallery of Hermosa; and upcoming in March 2025, the international exhibition Windswept at Wonzimer Gallery.

Here’s to meeting and marching into the New Year, with courage, bravery, heart and honesty, as much as we can…

 

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EXHIBITIONISTA: “From Fiber…”

July 26, 2023 By Debra Disman

The exhibition “From Fiber” will present contemporary art that utilize and showcase fibers. The works reflect a wide range of works related to the fiber medium, from raw fibers to high fashion and everything in-between. The goal of the exhibition is to showcase innovative work that explores both traditional materials and processes as well as those that expand the use of fiber with other media, processes, and disciplines.

The show will run from Friday, September 1 through Saturday, September 30. A reception and awards ceremony will be held Friday, September 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. A total of $1,200 in prizes will be awarded.
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Juror:  Ann B. Coddington. Ann utilizes a variety of traditional and innovative fiber techniques including twining, looping, lashing and netting in her sculptural forms. 

Tagged With: Ann B. Coddington, Contemporary Art, Fiber, Fiber Art, Group Show, Juried Exhibition, Midwest, Springfield Art Association, Textile Art, Textiles

PRAIRIE

September 10, 2018 By Debra Disman

 

“Prairie”, 2018

Inspired, I guess, by the Midwest landscape I was raised in…once all prairie lands, now leafy and not so leafy suburbs reaching to Chicago.

I began the piece, then realized what it was about, as pure a way of working as I can think of at this moment.

The color.

Illinois.
The Chicago suburbs.
Iowa.
Iowa City.

The fields.

The rolling hills.

The endless vistas with no water to speak of.

The place.

Texture.

The texture of a place.


Book board covers. Covers covered in torn strips of tissue paper.


Accordion-fold watercolor paper spine, covered with the same.


Jute cord sewn, stitched and falling.


Board pages become landscape.


Cover stitching.


Spine and page stitching.


Falling cord…


Other side.

“Prairie”, 2018
Book board, board, watercolor paper, tissue paper, jute cord

Filed Under: Artists' Books, New Work, Work Tagged With: Artists' Book/s, Fiber, Handmade Books, Midwest, Prairie, Prairie lands, Sculptural Artist book, Sculptural Book, Sculpture

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