NEXT LEVEL NYC 2018
TIME: A Suite of Drawings
Deborah Stein for Here Projects
AN EPHEMERAL DESIGN GALLERY DURING NYCXDESIGN CO-HOSTED BY ASHER ISRAELOW STUDIO, ESKAYEL, HART, HERE PROJECTS, AND PATRICK WEDER DESIGN.
OPEN MAY 16 - 23, 2018 FROM 11 - 7PM @ 718 BROADWAY, NY, NY 10003
JOIN US FOR THE OPENING RECEPTION MAY 15TH, 2018 FROM 7-10PM.
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SKYlab 2017: La villita residency
I spent the summer of 2017 at La Villita Ranch in the Rio Grande Valley, exploring relationships between humans and land in the open New Mexico landscapes. I translated my interpretations in watercolor drawings and then later into repeat images on organic crepe silk.
Because silk is touchable, moveable, and wearable, the Skylab Series allowed me to play with ideas about human relationships to objects, clothing, touch. How is what we wrap ourselves in a way into dialogue in the age of climate shifts and an urgency for responsibility and stewardship of the lands we inhabit?
america 101
I was honored to be asked to create a logo for a collaborative project between Eh-den Perlove and Lily Claire Nussbaum, former colleagues from the NYC Chapter of the Women's March on Washington. For inspiration, they had given me an image of the Revolutionary War era Forster American flag, woven linen which was a tattered and faded red and white. I wanted to create a raw ink drawing, made up of early, loosely connected but slightly different letter forms evoking 18th c. handwriting. I wanted it to feel formal but imperfect, and a bit proud, like that flag or the young imperfect idea that was America and Democracy as an evolving project. Out of ten examples I gave to them, this is the one they chose.
America 101 curates series of discussions and panels that explore the history and present state of our nation and what it means to be involved in continued active resistance. For more info about their work, visit their website here.
upstanders
May, 17 -June 11, 2017
UPSTANDERS, is part of the LIC OPEN at the FACTORY LIC
My work "We are the Storm and the Horizon: A New Vision for America" will be on view in this exhibition.
Rebecca Solnit aptly wrote, "Disaster is a lot like revolution: disruption and improvisation, and an exhilarating sense that anything is possible." In creating invisible atmospheres, storms and paintings of stopping points in time within landscapes, this group of drawings became an ongoing dialogue or exploration of the idea that hope and grief live on the same plane and the outcome of our future lives inside that.
The relationship between humanness and awe is long and complicated. This body of work tends to these ideas of where we stand in the order and untamed chaos of nature. And because the 2016 election cycle and trends in the “American drift” have tested protocol, balance, and the limits of the individual and national psyche in difficult and often oppositional ways, the response to the chaos is large, our desire for results intense. We take and are taken on by different fronts driven by fast-moving political and social storms but the patience to learn and heal can be as slow as human evolution.
ILLEGAL FASHION: A VALENTINE RUNWAY AT WHITEBOX NYC
WE ARE NOT BORDERS, Crowns and Jewelry by Deborah Stein in collaboration with Maria de Los Angeles.
"Jesus, Moses and Mohammed were refugees. In honor of the immigrant tradition that built this Republic composed of a populace escaping religious or economic horrors in their homelands—in turn decimating the original North American Indian population—and in front of a decidedly neo-fascist political moment in our history affecting much of the world, WhiteBox opens it’s democratic nonpartisan traditional doors to a Valentine’s Day celebration of cultural immigration, Government labeled “illegal.” This illegal movement composed of over eleven million laborious human beings, working jobs ranging from the menial but necessary jobs, to the cultural, academic and high tech industries, pays taxes and gets little in return.
Partial proceeds of exceptional sale of fashion garments and accessories, will benefit a Downtown Sanctuary center, TBA.
Valentine’s Party with open mic, DJ, live music, performances and lots of love at WhiteBox to follow.
Photos by George de Castro Day