Debra Weisberg was awarded a Denbo Fellowship in the spring of 2020 at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. She used this focused time to explore the relationship/intersections between her sculptural installations, large scale site-specific drawings and most recent work, collaged embossings on paper.
Pyramid Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland https://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/fellowship
Weisberg’s one-person show, Drawn to Touch, opened at Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury, Vermont. April 27-June 14
Her show launched the opening event of Vermont Curators Group 20/20 Vision. Weisberg was a guest artist panelist on “Bringing Together Art and Technology”. She spoke about preservation of the senses in the digital age.
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave, St Johnsbury, VT
802-784-2600, ext 3
http://www.catamountarts.org
Artists’ Reception: Sunday April 28 from 4-5:30 pm
Trident Gallery was pleased to announce the opening of Organic Complications April 13-May 27. Weisberg created a site-specific work for this show which also included her collaged drawings and wall sculptures.
Trident Gallery
189 Main Street
Gloucester MA 01930
978-491-7785
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, April 13, 5–7pm
In March 2017, Facebook Boston commissioned Weisberg to create an 22-foot long tape installation for its corporate office in Cambridge. The installation, titled Material Drawing, is a permanent commission, and is part of Facebook Boston’s Artist in Residence Program 2017.
McIninch Art Gallery
2500 River Rd.
Manchester, NH
603-629-4622
McIninch Art Gallery
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, February 23, 5:00 to 7:00pm
Dedee Shattuck Gallery was pleased to present Surface Appeal: Material Perception. This exhibition showcased works that invoked the sense of touch through the use, or visual depiction, of texture or ambiguous material. Line, shape, and form can direct the imagination through representational or non-specific imagery, while texture often stimulates a sensory memory through one’s reaction to material. One’s awareness of texture and touch – and the spatial relationship between a material and one’s own body – becomes part of the overall aesthetic experience.
Dedee Shattuck Gallery
1 Partners Lane, off 865 Main Road
Westport Ma, 02790
508-636-4177
www.dedeeshattuckgallery.com
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, July 9, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
See the review here.
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.
