debra

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The work in Debra Weisberg’s “Mermeros” (“causing anxiety; mischievous”) spans over 15 years and highlights the artist’s long inquiry with improvisational drawing as the foundation for sculpture in which the imagery emerges in collaboration and in resistance to materials. How does the unexpected translate into abstractionism which triggers memories of imagined scapes? She was very excited to use this opportunity to show some older works that have never been shown before and place them in conversation with newer work, including a larger re-configured version of (un)Sea(n) Scape, originally shown at The Museum Complex in Duxbury.

From an educational standpoint, Weisberg hopes this exhibition provided students with a fruitful and meaningful conversation on maintaining a long term studio practice and keeping an idea fresh over decades.

Opening reception: Thursday, March 24, 6-8pm

University Hall Gallery
1815 Mass AveCambridge MA

Gallery Hours:
Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 12-5pm
Thu 3-8pm

Debra Weisberg’s dimensional drawing (un)SEA(n) is made primarily from paper pulp covered wire, foam, sand, and polymer. The installation alludes to a Dystopian seascape and entropy in nature. The shadows created but the linear forms adds another layer of spatial illusionism into a volumetric space.

Debra participated and exhibited her work at ivoh’s 2015 Restorative Narrative Summit: “Exploring Resilience Through the Media,” June 25-28 at the Peace Village in Haines Falls, NY.

As part of the 6th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Weisberg presented her paper, “Material Drawing: Exploration and Connectivity,” at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (2014) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2018). This paper which examined the material of making, preservation of the senses, and its educational implications in the digital age was also presented at University College, London (2014). An iteration of this talk was given at the Broad Institute (2018), a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Material Drawing: Exploration and Connectivity.

Debra Weisberg exhibited work at Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University in a show entitled CONstruct/conSTRUCT, October 10-November 29, 2013

Debra Weisberg’s paper and tape works were exhibited at the Paper Biennial Rijswijk 2012
September 2 – November 25

Opening reception: Sunday September 2, 3pm

Museum Rijswijk
Holland Paper Biennial 2012
Herenstraat 67
2282 BR Rijswijk
The Netherlands

A two-person exhibition of constructed drawings and glow in the dark work.
Gallery Kayafas, 450 Harrison Ave, Boston.
October 22- November 26, 2011.