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DEBORAH
DURBAN
ARTIST
STATEMENT & RESUME
Address:
PO Box 29, Springdale, Utah 84767 Tel: (435) 772 3324.
“The
bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we
quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early,
but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”
Charles
Caleb Colton
Works-in-Progress:
The idea for this body of work was conceived in the summer
of 2007 after witnessing a flash flood of the Virgin River. As Human
Beings one third of life is spent in, on and using a bed in some form: we
can be conceived and born in a bed, we sleep in a bed, daily and most of
us die in a bed.
Using
mixed-media and book techniques, I am currently evolving and exploring the
human condition through the word ‘BED’ as part of the titles:
‘BED’ used within words, as a word or within sayings or sentences. The
new works are self supported mixed media ‘quilts’ or sculptures.
The
first two: “Lords and Ladies of the Bed Chamber” and “Bed
Post” will be on display at the Zion
Canyon Open Studios & Gallery Tour 2008 at Under The Eaves
Inn.
OTHER
WORK
NARRATIVES
AND BOOK ARTS: Using bookmaking techniques and journaling I am
making new works that derive larger pieces out of many smaller pieces.
I keep diaries and sketchbooks of events, collecting ephemera and
recording experiences, sometimes for a pre-determined number of days or
for a particular event or time. I work on smaller individual artworks,
using the notes and objects and combine everything together into a large
final piece or art book.
"The
Virgin River: A Journal of Zion”, has been selected for the 'Zion
National Park Centennial Art Exhibit: A Century of Sanctuary', and
will hang firstly in St. George
Art Museum, UT, then as a part of a countrywide travel exhibit.
FIGURATIVE:
Life drawing is an artist’s ‘everyday’ practice. Similar to
musicians playing scales, I try to life-draw on a weekly basis.
PORTRAITS:
Painting portraits is a new and on going direction and definitely
early in the journey. I have used words and other images to place the
sitter in ‘their own moment in time’.
LANDSCAPES:
“To
stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it
or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an
eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.”
‘The
Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes’ by Michel Pastoreau.
My
work is a direct result of my primal reaction to a landscape: in
particular the desert landscape of the South West. I find an empathy
with the rocky red ochre's & big blue skies; in contrast to the
English muted tones of my youth. Many of my paintings have an
‘optical’ layer of fine stripes, overlaying the main work, some over
the whole painting – others, more recently, only in one section. Both
the lines and the color play within the painting create visual
vibrations against the work and establishing an ‘energetic’ connection
between the work and the viewer.
Landsticks:
a three-dimensional approach to landscape painting on a wooden rectangular
block creating a ‘landscape in the round’.
Splicers:
Mixed media artworks using photographic materials, monotypes, paint &
drawing. Two photographic landscapes spliced together and placed on the
hand made background to make a 3rd ‘virtual’ landscape which is a
mixture of both photos and the imaginary drawn one.
EXHIBITIONS
2008-9
ZION PARK CENTENNIAL ART EXHIBIT: A CENTURY OF SANCTUARY. St. George
Museum of Art, UT. Juried group show to travel for 1 year.
2007
EARTH, WIND, WATER FIRE. Canyon Community Center, Springdale, UT. Group
Show. Prize winner
2007
CEDAR CITY 64TH ANNUAL JURIED SHOW. Braithewaite Gallery, SUU, UT. Group
Show. Prize winner
2006
COMMUNITY. Canyon Community Center, Springdale, UT. Group Show
2005
OPEN STUDIO SHOW. Bit & Spur Restaurant, Springdale, UT. Group
Show
2004
PAINTERS OF ZION. Worthington Gallery, Springdale UT. Group Show
2004
REGIONAL JURIED SHOW. St. George Art Museum, UT. Group Show
2003
EARTHLINES. Bit & Spur Restaurant, Springdale, UT. Solo Show
2003
ZION CANYON ARTISTS SHOW. The Utah Arts Council, Glendinning
Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Group Show
2002
3 WOMAN SHOW. Datura Gallery, Coyote Art Village, Kayenta.
2002
ART-IN-THE-PARK. St. George, UT. 1st Prize
for Acrylic
s
2001-02
EARTHLINES. Balance Gallery, Philadelphia Pa. Solo show
2001
SMALL WORKS VII. 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia Pa. Group
show
2001
JAPANESE ASSEMBLAGES. Spring Mill Café, Conshohoken, Pa.
2001
EARTHLINES. 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia Pa. Solo show
2001
PLASTICS CLUB. Philadelphia. Group show
2001
CHELTENHAM CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Philadelphia. Faculty Show
2001
UNIVERSITY CITY ARTS LEAGUE. Philadelphia. Faculty show
2001
MAIN LINE ART CENTER. Haverford, Pa. Faculty show
2000
SMALL WORKS VI. 3rd Street Gallery. Group Show
2000
SUMMER SOLSTICE. 3rd Street Gallery. Group Show
2000
A LINE IN TIME. 3rd Street Gallery. Group Show
1999
LABYRINTHS & NARRATIVES. 3rd Street Gallery. 2 Person
show
1999
3RD ST. 5 ON 2ND ST. 3rd Street Gallery. New Members Group
show
1999
PERKINS MEMBERS & FACULTY ANNUAL SHOW. NJ. Group Show
1998
SMALL WORKS V. 3rd Street Gallery. Group Show
1998
MARKHEIM ART CENTRE ANNUAL JURIED SHOW. NJ. Group Show
Prize winner.
1998
PERKINS MEMBERS & FACULTY ANNUAL SHOW. NJ. Group Show
1997
PERKINS MEMBERS & FACULTY ANNUAL SHOW. NJ. Group Show
GALLERIES
AND NEW SHOWS
BLUE
SAGE GALLERY, Cedar City, UT. 2 person show August-September 2008
2008-9
ZION PARK CENTENNIAL ART EXHIBIT: A CENTURY OF SANCTUARY. St. George
Museum of Art, UT. Juried group show to travel for 1 year.
ROCKING
V CAFÉ & GALLERY, Kanab, UT. Artist
WALKING
STICK GALLERY, Springdale, UT. Artist
OLD
PUEBLO WEST, Sedona AZ. Artist
THAI
SAPA RESTAURANT, Springdale, UT. Artist
UNDER
THE EAVES INN, Springdale, UT. Studio/gallery
RESUME
UNIVERSITY
OF UTAH, SLC. Architecture Dept. Visiting critic
PENSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS (PAFA), Philadelphia. Juror
Student show
TEMPLE
UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, Architecture Dept. Visiting critic
CONSHOHOKEN
ARTS LEAGUE. Philadelphia. Faculty teacher
MAIN
LINE ART CENTER. Haverford, PA. Faculty teacher
UNIVERSITY
CITY ARTS LEAGUE. Philadelphia. Faculty teacher
3RD
STREET GALLERY. Philadelphia. Artist Co-op. Artist/Director
DZIKO
Brighton, UK. African Art retailer, President
UNIVERSITY
OF SUSSEX, UK. Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE),
Art & Design
RE:ACTION
THEATRE CO. Brighton Sx., UK . Scenery Director
GENERAL
ART & DESIGN, Eastbourne College of Arts & Technology,
UK. Professor
FREELANCE
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
BRIGHTON
POLYTECHNIC (UNIVERSITY), UK. BA Hons. Graphic
Design/Illustration, 2.1
WIMBLEDON
SCHOOL OF ART, London, UK. Foundation
Course
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