Debra Disman

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EXHIBITIONISTA: “I Can’t I Won’t I Will I Do” SOLO SHOW

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 “I Can’t I Won’t I Will I Do”

ReflectSpace presents:
DEBRA DISMAN: I Can’t I Won’t I Will I Do
January 18 – March 19, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 28th, 6-8pm
Curators: Ara & Anahid Oshagan

ReflectSpace in Glendale, run by  Ara Oshagan, presents new work by artist Debra Disman. Along with the exhibition, ReflectSpace is publishing an artists’ book based on Disman’s 2021-22 Santa Monica Artist Fellowship project, investigating linking and responding to the groundbreaking work of artist Charlotte Salomon and Eva Hesse which will be available at the opening. For more information, please visit HERE.

 

“Tenuous Threads” at Atlantic Gallery

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I am thrilled to be a part of:

TENUOUS THREADS

Contemporary Work Incorporating Textiles, Fibers, Threads and Mixed Media

January 24th – February 11, 2023

Opening reception of Tenuous Threads: January 26th, 5:30pm-8pm: 

Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea NYC,  presents the exhibition: Tenuous Threads, juried by Patricia Miranda

All of life is connected through networks, systems, fibers and webs. Communication (visual, verbal, electrical, chemical, and kinetic) enables an exchange of information amongst all life forms. Tenuous Threads alludes to the delicate lines that bring us together and sets us apart; that joins us yet repels us. This show features innovative artworks that utilize textiles, fibers, threads (natural and synthetic) in sculpture, collage, 3D and 2D mixed media that communicates the strength and fragility of what binds all life.

I am showing:
Facing Darkness, 2020, 19 x 18 x .5″, mixed media: canvas, acrylic paint, lace, zipper, wood, hemp cord
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EXHIBITIONISTA: “Tenuous Threads”

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TENUOUS THREADS

Contemporary Work Incorporating Textiles, Fibers, Threads and Mixed Media

January 24th – February 11, 2023

Opening reception of Tenuous Threads: January 26th, 5:30pm-8pm: 

Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea NYC,  presents the exhibition: Tenuous Threads, juried by Patricia Miranda

All of life is connected through networks, systems, fibers and webs. Communication (visual, verbal, electrical, chemical, and kinetic) enables an exchange of information amongst all life forms. Tenuous Threads alludes to the delicate lines that bring us together and sets us apart; that joins us yet repels us. This show features innovative artworks that utilize textiles, fibers, threads (natural and synthetic) in sculpture, collage, 3D and 2D mixed media that communicates the strength and fragility of what binds all life.

Surface Design Association Award of Excellence

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I am very honored to share the recent Surface Design Association Award of Excellence with artist Anne McMillan. 


Debra Disman (portrait on left),  “Hopes and Fears and…,” 2020. Stitched, sewn, repurposed textile squares, linen thread, 24.5 x 16.5in (image on right)

Please go  HERE to see the post!

Surface Design Association says:

“We’re excited to support innovative work in fiber and textile media! The Award of Excellence is awarded to artists who have work in current exhibitions. This year we’re so pleased to congratulation both Debra Disman @artifactorystudio and Anne McMillan @annemcmillanart for their extraordinary accomplishments.”

Interested in their awards and grants? Check out the link in their bio / profile!

Thank you SDA!!!

I am honored also to share this honor with artist Anne McMillan
annemcmillanart.com | @annemcmillanart
From the SDA July Newsletter:

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARD WINNERS!

1) Award of Excellence

Debra Disman
debradisman.com | @artifactorystudio

Debra Disman’s (she/her) Hopes and Fears and… won SDA’s Award of Excellence at the Alternative Fiber exhibition at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, Texas, US.
Debra Disman (portrait on left), Hopes and Fears and…, 2020. Stitched, sewn, repurposed textile squares, linen thread, 24.5 x 16.5 inches.

Anne McMillan
annemcmillanart.com | @annemcmillanart

Three of Anne McMillan’s (she/her) mixed media and artist books won SDA’s Award of Excellence. The exhibition, Tension: Process in the Making, was a juried group exhibition celebrating SDA’s New Hampshire Regional Group.
Anne McMillan, Flaxed. Khadi. mulberry paper, flax, linen thread, bone button, book board, pva glue; eco-dyed paper, flax roving, hand-spun ties, bound with buttonhole stitch.

EXHIBITIONISTA: “YARN/ROPE/STRING” at the New Bedford Museum of Art

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I am thrilled to be showing “Profusion” in “Yarn/Rope/String” at the New Bedford Museum of Art, organized by Fiber Art Now, and juried by Michael F. Rohde , originally presented in print and online in  Fiber Art Now.



“Profusion“, 2018, 8.5 x 24.5 x 7.75, Book board, mulberry paper, watercolor paper, canvas, hemp cord

Sharing Shows: Arizona, California, Texas

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Excavation of the Interior, 2021, 12 x 28 x 12.5″ (wood, mulberry paper, hemp cord, canvas, muslin)

 


Chromatic Interactions: The Golden Thread, 2020, 76 x 90 x 1.5″, mixed media installation utilizing file cards written and drawn upon by Craft Contemporary Museum patrons participating in my commissioned interactive artists’ book project: Chromatic Interactions, (File cards, gold thread, pencil and crayon)

 


Rent Wound Tear, Mend Heal Repair, 2022, 64 x 68″ (dimensions variable), Triptych Installation, (canvas, acrylic paint, hemp cord, lace, string)