Debra Disman

Artist

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Textile

Hopes and Fears and…

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From 2020 to the present moment.

I HOPE this is not forever, I FEAR it might be…but I HOPE not.
HOPE springs eternal, FEAR springs infernal.




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

when FACING DARKNESS

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Face it, if at all possible, look “it” square in the proverbial eye/I, and take your reckoning. Be prepared, be intelligent, be on the ready. 

Facing Darkness, 2020, 19 x 18 x .5″, canvas, acrylic paint, lace, zipper

Yet,

Facing Darkness, (detail), 2020, 19 x 18 x .5″, canvas, acrylic paint, lace, zipper

Leave an opening, don’t zip yourself away. Stay open and fluid. And. Be prepared, be intelligent, be on the ready. Be open to creating silver linings.

 

Open Studio Take 2

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Thrilled to have my nephew Sam visiting and here for our Open Studios at 18th Street.

Thanks to Henry Graham Murray for the images!


White & Texture & Paper & Fiber

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I am thrilled to be participating in two show on opposite coasts which aim to share artworks that center on some of my specific interest in artmaking.

“White & Texture” at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod:
“Subtitled Monochrome Unity, we invited artists to explore the profound subtleties and striking complexities of using white as the driving color and how texture within the white and informs the execution and the narrative of an artwork. We wanted them to explore the effect of this limitation – without a “conventional” color palette.”

“White Zip”

“Paper & Fiber: Fourth Annual Show” at 1202 Contemporary in Gilroy, California:
“1202 Contemporary proudly presents its 4th annual Paper + Fiber show, celebrating two mediums that women artists have traditionally used for centuries, but have always been considered “craft,” or less than fine art.  Uplifting and supporting artists who have worked in textile, fiber, and/or paper mediums, this exhibition centers and hones in on the theme of figure.”

“Into The Bush”

“Profusion”

“White and Texture (Monochrome Unity)” at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod

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I am thrilled to participate in  “White & Texture [Monochrome Unity]” at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod!
As they state:

“Artists were invited to explore the profound subtleties and striking complexities of using white as the driving color and how texture within the white can inform the execution and the narrative of an artwork, as well as to to explore the effect of this limitation – without a “conventional” color palette.

When the artist is freed from tradition, from expectation, and from the weight of history, there is an opportunity for release, exploration, and the unexpected. For White and Texture [Monochrome Unity], artworks were sought that find the emotion without using color. Uniformity, tranquility universality, simplicity, purity, or abstraction may all come to the surface and create a beautiful tension between what is missing – color, tradition, and form – and what is gained – innovation and the unexpected.

Our desire from the artist is not the search for simplicity but the discovery of a new way of creating and a different way of expression. We hope Monochrome Unity will drive the artist to look for new solutions to an artistic challenge; to use shades of white and embrace texture to provide the ‘color’ that will then provide the energy and emotion.

The work of such artists as Michael Buthe, Piero Manzoni, Joan Nixon, and ceramic sculptor Maria Barttuszova provide us with a broad template of the experience to create in the Cultural Center.

White & Texture [Monochrome Unity] will fill our galleries, creating a visual harmony and coherence and like never before, give a visitor experience like no other.”

I hope so.

I am showing WHITE ZIP, and look forward to seeing what others present for this unique show. I know i, for one, will be highly engaged.

21.25″ x 20.5″ x .25″, canvas, acrylic paint, lace, zipper, hemp cord, linen thread, wood