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FORMATION at UCLA: The Artists (2)

April 25, 2019 By Debra Disman

“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition is currently showing at UCLA!

University of California, Los Angeles
Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
March 15–May 25, 2019

I am extremely honored to have two pieces in FORMATION, The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 traveling juried exhibition, with a theme evoking a wide array of interpretations. However, in this series of posts, I will highlight an array of the talented artists participating in the show. What wonderful company to be in!

“Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form or shape to something,” ‘formation‘ can insinuate process, history, creation, change, beginnings, an arrangement, botany and landscape, personal narratives and impersonal storytelling. As artists, designers and craftspeople with our own histories that form us, we also play a vital role in the formation of objects and experiences; pulp molded into paper, paper folded into books, books shelved into a library.

What is the final product, if not for the methods used to create it? What makes us into the artists we are? What pushes us to continue to create?” –FORMATION

More To Come!

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, Exhibitions, Work Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery, Exhibition, FORMATION, Group Exhibition, Group Show, Handmade Books, Los Angeles, Mixed media, Sculptural Books, Show, The Guild of Book Workers, Travelling Exhibition, UCLA, University of California

FORMATION at UCLA: The Artists (1)

April 18, 2019 By Debra Disman

“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition is currently showing at UCLA!

University of California, Los Angeles
Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
March 15–May 25, 2019

I am extremely honored to have two pieces in FORMATION, The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 traveling juried exhibition, with a theme evoking a wide array of interpretations. However, in this series of posts, I will highlight an array of the talented artists participating in the show. What wonderful company to be in!

“Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form or shape to something,” ‘formation‘ can insinuate process, history, creation, change, beginnings, an arrangement, botany and landscape, personal narratives and impersonal storytelling. As artists, designers and craftspeople with our own histories that form us, we also play a vital role in the formation of objects and experiences; pulp molded into paper, paper folded into books, books shelved into a library.

What is the final product, if not for the methods used to create it? What makes us into the artists we are? What pushes us to continue to create?” –FORMATION

 

Judy Sgantas

Peggy Johnson

Sue Huggins Leopard

More to come!

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, Exhibitions, Work Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery, Exhibition, FORMATION, Group Exhibition, Group Show, Handmade Books, Los Angeles, Mixed media, Sculptural Books, Show, The Guild of Book Workers, Travelling Exhibition, UCLA, University of California

“FORMATION”: at UCLA!

April 3, 2019 By Debra Disman

“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition is currently showing at UCLA!

University of California, Los Angeles
Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
March 15–May 25, 2019

I am extremely honored to have two pieces in FORMATION, The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 traveling juried exhibition, with a theme evoking a wide array of interpretations.

“Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form or shape to something,” ‘formation‘ can insinuate process, history, creation, change, beginnings, an arrangement, botany and landscape, personal narratives and impersonal storytelling. As artists, designers and craftspeople with our own histories that form us, we also play a vital role in the formation of objects and experiences; pulp molded into paper, paper folded into books, books shelved into a library.

What is the final product, if not for the methods used to create it? What makes us into the artists we are? What pushes us to continue to create?” –FORMATION

Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery, Exhibition, FORMATION, Group Exhibition, Group Show, Handmade Books, Los Angeles, Mixed media, Sculptural Books, Show, The Guild of Book Workers, Travelling Exhibition, UCLA, University of California

“OFFAL”

March 11, 2019 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to be participating in this upcoming show at the wonderful LAMAG:

Offal

August 15 – September 29, 2019
Opening reception: Sunday, August 11, 2 – 5 PM

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery presents a show conceived from the subject of offal (ˈôfəl,ˈäfəl), or the culture of consuming innards–a subject matter we hope will not be too awful to stomach.

Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Artists, Brianna Bakke, EXHBITION, Handmade Books, LAMAG, Los Angeles, OFFAL, Sculptural Books, Sculpture, Steven Wong, The City of Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

2019 LA Open Exhibition (2)

January 27, 2019 By Debra Disman

 

I  was honored to participate in the 2019 LA OPEN at  TAG GALLERY  December 2018- January 2019

The show ran Tuesday, December 18 – Saturday, January 18

Press Release | Installation Images | Inventory | Map

Thank you to curator James Panozzo  for including my piece, “Burning Bush”, and with Gallery Director Rakeem Cunningham, putting together a fascination show I was proud to be a part of.


“Burning Bush”


A sense of scale…


Texture

TAG is a wonderful Gallery in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles.  Cooperatively and artist run, the Gallery presents multifaceted shows in all mediums throughout its upstairs and street level spaces.

Gallery Location: 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
Telephone: 310.829.9556
Email: info@taggallery.net

Check it out!

 

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Exhibitions, New Work, Work Tagged With: 2019 LA Open Exhibition, ARTIST'S BOOKS, James Panozzo, Los Angeles Art Galleries, Rakeem Cunningham, Sculptural Books, Tag Gallery

Like White on White 2

November 6, 2018 By Debra Disman

Using the term “white” very broadly.

It is really the layering of similar hued discrete textures and materials and the richness, emotions and feelings this creates…thread on paper, paper on cloth, cord on cloth, paper on board. Cord, string and thread falling to the tabletop,  gathering, bunching, tangling, hanging or stitched, taut, linear.

“Texō“…”I weave.” Texture, textile, text, context.

Endless combinations, permutations, variations.

 

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Work Tagged With: "Texo", ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book as Art, Context, Sculptural Books, Text, Textile, Texture, The Artof the Book The Book of the Art

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