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Debra Weisberg, a graduate of Tyler School of Art, currently lives in the Boston area at the Brickbottom Artist Building. Her work explores drawing in physical terms using a variety of materials, including tape, fiber, fiberglass mesh, and hydrostone. The result is works that contain the expanding vitality of an explosive mass of energy,
A two time fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Weisberg has exhibited nationally: Art in General in NYC, the DeCordova Museum, Mills Gallery and Rose Museum in the Boston area, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art. Her forty-foot high installation at the DeCordova, ‘(Sub) Surface’ won a prize for best museum installation from the Boston Art Critics Association. She was Mass Cultural Council grant recipient in drawing in 2008 and Somerville Arts Lottery winner in 2008, 2004 and 2001. Her work is in numerous collections such as the Sonesta Hotel, General Hardware Manufacturing Company, Simmons College and Meditech. She has also done private commissions in Mass Power and Electric and in private homes.
Her Constructed Drawing Series will be exhibited in 2008 at the Danforth Museum. She is also involved in a new series of glow in the dark drawings.
Weisberg is a college instructor at Boston College and New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. |
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