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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 Open HeART

October 23, 2024 By Debra Disman


18th Street Arts Center  OPEN STUDIOS  October 20, 2024


With sister Susan and nephew Sam inside “KnoW Safe Place“


With sis Susan inside “KnoW Safe Place“


Thank you Victoria 


Sam chats with fellow Artist in Residence Dan S. Wang


A lovely offering brought home. Thank you B. Susan!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, ARTISTS, Exhibitions, New Work, Presentations, TEXTILE/FIBER, Work Tagged With: 1653 18th Street, 18th Street Arts Center, Artist Residency, Family, Fellow Artists, New Work, New Works, Open Studios, Work

Work in Progress: Studio

October 6, 2023 By Debra Disman

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Filed Under: New Work, TEXTILE/FIBER, Work Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, Black, black on black on black on black, Book, Cloth, Fabric, Fiber, Installation, Layering, Monochrome, New Work, Sculpture, Studio, Textile, Work, Work in Progress

ALL SHE MAKES…from the Magazine

February 24, 2022 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to be featured in ALL SHE MAKES  Magazineand the ALL SHE MAKES Artist Directory!

The Magazine is a must-see/read for anyone interested in the work of female artists and the art world in general.

 Sviltana Martynjuk, founder of All SHE Makes champions Women Artists through this publication and organization/venture she has spearheaded.

The incredible Christina Massey of  WoArt and creator of the amazing and beloved WoArt Blog, also promoting and celebrating women artists, and an artist in her own right, curated the selection of artists featured in this WINTER Issue IV of ALL SHE MAKES.

I am aprreciative of  this opportunity to be featured alongside so many outstanding women artists!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: All She makes magazine, Art By Women, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Artists, Buy Women's Art, C Massey Art . WoArt Blog, Christina Massey, Curated Work, Magazine Vesature, New Work, Support Women Artists!, Sviltana Martynjuk, WoArt Blog, Women Artists, Women's Art, Womenj's Art magazine, Work Tagged With: All She Makes

NEW WORK in 2021: “Forest Through The Trees”

December 20, 2021 By Debra Disman

I was happy to finally be able to have Elon Schoenholz Photography in to photograph works completed during 2021… fast away the old year passes…

Here I share “Forest through The Trees“, 15 x 42 x 12”, made of book board, canvas, hemp cord, ribbon, typewriter ribbon, acrylic paint, wood.
It is part of a monochrome series in black, through the colors of “black” are infinite, and change with light, material, juxtaposition, and how the viewer engages with the piece.

Comprised of two accordion-folded “spines”, the “book”, becomes a “box”, with a “door” that opens, expandable “walls”, and  painted canvas “pages” held up precariously with wooden dowels. The piece can be presented and contemplated in numerous ways, and begs a tactile connection, through all of us working in book, and perhaps sculptural forms in general grapple with how to do this.  How to have viewers engage with the work, participate in it, without having it worn away over time in the process…

We are seekers.
The Journey continues.

Happy New Year.

(exterior, closed)

(exterior, ajar)

(interior/exterior, open)

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, New Work, Work Tagged With: 2021 Work, Accordion Fold, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Black, Books To Boxes, Boxes, Canvas, COLOR, Conceptual Works, Constructions, Contemporary Artist, Covers, Elon Schoenholz Photography, Fiber, HEMP CORD, Labor, Los Angles Artists, minimalist, Mixed media, Monochrome, New Work, Repetition, Sculpture, Spiral, Stitch, Stitching, Textiles, Three-dimensional works, Work

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

November 15, 2021 By Debra Disman

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


Up next.

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, New Work, Work Tagged With: 2021 Work, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Black, Book as Art, Codex, Coil, COLOR, Conceptual Book, Conceptual Works, Constructions, Contemporary Artist, Covers, Elon Schoenholz Photography, Fiber, HEMP CORD, Los Angles Artists, Mark Rothko, Mixed media, New Work, Pages, Red, Rothko, Sculpture, SIGNATURE, SINGLE SIGNATURE BOOK, Spiral, Stitch, Stitching, Textiles, Three-dimensional works, White and Blue, Work

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