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PLEASE TOUCH Invites You to Do Just That!

June 26, 2022 By Debra Disman

See a video of perhaps the world’s largest potholder HERE!


Julie O’Sullivan


Cathy Engel-Marder


Monica Marks


Liz Nurenberg


Laurel Paley and Liz Nurenberg


Robyn Sanford with Lisa Diane Wedgeworth and Sheli Silverio


Beautiful participants Mom and Daughter

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: "Please Touch", Arts at Blue Roof, Arts at Blue Roof 2022 Summer Festival, Blue Roof Studios, Cathy Engel-Marder, Debra Disman, Exhbitions, Fiber, Installation, Julie O'Sullivan, Kristine Schomaker, Laurel Paley, Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Liz Nurenberg, Monica Marks, Participatory  art works, Participatory Sculpture, Robyn Sanford, Sculpture, Sheli Silverio, Tactile Artworks, Textiles, The Womb, touch, Touchable works of art, Womb

“Please Touch” Invites YOU to Enter the Womb…

June 19, 2022 By Debra Disman

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: "Please Touch", Arts at Blue Roof, Arts at Blue Roof 2022 Summer Festival, Blue Roof Studios, Cathy Engel-Marder, Debra Disman, Exhbitions, Fiber, Installation, Julie O'Sullivan, Kristine Schomaker, Laurel Paley, Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Liz Nurenberg, Monica Marks, Participatory  art works, Participatory Sculpture, Robyn Sanford, Sculpture, Sheli Silverio, Tactile Artworks, Textiles, The Womb, touch, Touchable works of art, Womb

EXPO 41 at B.J. Spokes Gallery

March 18, 2022 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to be included in:


a virtual exhibition of the b.j. spoke gallery

The show was juried by Sewon Kang, Archivist at The Easton/Bourgeois Archive, formerly Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, who selected the work of 15 artists. I am honored to be included in this roster of stunning creative makers.

Artists and their selected works can be viewed below. Enjoy

David Acquistapace, Saint Louis, MO
Kat Alyst, Austin, TX
Neville Barbour, Silver Spring, MD
Matthew Barton, New Orleans, LA
Kimberlyn Bloise, Edinboro, PA
Stephen Delaney, Middleton, MA
Debra Disman, Los Angeles, CA
Eriko Kobayashi, Carbondale, IL
Anthony Adonis Lewis, Ashland, OR
Kambel Smith, Philadelphia, PA
Karen Theisen, Santa Fe, NM
Amy Usdin, Mendota Heights, MN
Jae Yun Yi, Seoul Korea
Dier Zhang, Brooklyn, NY
Foad Seyed Mohammadi, Gainesville FL

I am showing:
Excavation of the Interior, 2021, 12 x 28 x 12.5″, mixed media (wood, canvas, muslin, mulberry paper, hemp cord, linen thread, watercolor paper)

and
Forest Through The Trees, 2021, 15 x 42 x 12″, mixed media (book board, acrylic paint, hemp cord, wood, canvas, typewriter tape, lace, watercolor paper)

ARTIST STATEMENT                                              
 I work in the form of the book, in forms evoked by the book, and in multidimensional media of my own devising. Both as a solo practitioner and in the public sphere of community engagement I push the body and boundaries of the book into new media, materials and meanings to invite altered ways of viewing the world and how we inhabit it. Although much of the work continues to relate to loose definitions of the book as structure, it is moving into other sculptural and conceptual realms where devotion to material labor and a passion for the haptic become powerful motivators and themes. I am fascinated by the parallels between books and buildings in terms of architecture, meaning and utility. Each constructs public and private spaces where stories are “read” on many levels, often revealing more than their makers ever intended. My work seeks to offer places of contemplation, solace and bafflement, while instigating exploration, investigation and examination of what we think we know, and are.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, B.J. Spokes Gallery, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Artist, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Artist, EXPO 42, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Group Shows, Juried Shows, Los Angeles Contemporary Artist, Sculptural Books, Sculpture, Sewon Kang, Textile, Textile Artist, The Easton Foundation

Inspired by Louise Nevelson

February 27, 2022 By Debra Disman

In our “Making Art Inspired by Great Artists” class,
Students are inspired by the wood assemblage sculptures of Louise Nevelson….

Putting together all manner of wood shapes…

Playing, arranging, stacking, balancing, building,  gluing…


Creating.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: After School Art Classes, Art Enrichment, Assemblage, Building, Celelbrate Women Artists, CREST, CREST Enrichment, Louise Nevelson, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, March Women's History Month, Santa Monica Public Schools, Santa monica School District, Sculpture, Women Artists, Women Sculptors, Wood sculpture

Sharing the words of Juri Koll

February 1, 2022 By Debra Disman

I am honored to share the words of the artist, curator, filmmaker and fonder/director of Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Juri Koll:

Thank you Juri, for your time, your care, and your comprehension of my work.

It means a great deal.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: :Burning Bush", Art organizations, Beyond Baroque, Book as Art, Books, Codices, Constructions, Handmade Books, Juri koll, Labor, Los Angeles Art organizations, Materiality, Scrolls, Sculptural Books, Sculpture, Story, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Vica

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

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