Debra Disman

Artist

New Work

ALL SHE MAKES…from the Magazine

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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!

NEW WORK in 2021: “Forest Through The Trees”

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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)

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


Up next.

18(2) Studio Notes/Working at 18th Street Arts Center

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Studio at 18th Street Arts Center…in process.

Older work…still under scrutiny.

making of the walls leading to the closet a Gallery.

This makes it easy to continue to peruse this work.

Earlier work: handmade books, artists’ books, sculptures.

Supplies, materials, material, samples, readymades, and student clay works, next to, and below.

Air dry clay dries fast in the Studio.

Material world…

and worlds.

From whence we go, denim.

OnWards.

18(1): Working at 18th Street Arts Center

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I became a local artist in residence at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica the third week in September, 2018. My posts, while a chronicle of sorts of the experience, won’t necessarily , nor summarily, begin at the beginning.


Works in various states of completion.

Love lots of Light. Let There Be Light in the studio.


A work begun during my studio residency at the Art Lab at 1450 Ocean (in Santa Monica)

Like a book, or any work, this is a process.  The beginning, can be seen from many viewpoints.


Canvas, hemp cord, found cord, book board, watercolor paper.

Like life, work ifs filled with loose ends.


Spine

Sometimes these can be beautiful.


Page turner

We turn the page.


Moving through, loose ends, unraveling, stitching, keeping it together.

Something new emerges. just that slightly different then the before.

Moving on.