The Boston Globe Reviews Mermeros
See the review here.
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.
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.