Planet Art * Alice Dubiel

From Seattle to Platform3: A postal journey for peace

Shout out to Post Office workers around the world for moving my art reproduction from Seattle, to San Francisco customs, to New York City, to Doha, to Tehran, to Platform3 for the Emotional Numbness exhibition there. Amazingly, the tracking worked!

anti-war

Emotional Numbness: curators after my own heart

I am so in awe of the curators Atefeh Khas and Minoosh Zomorodinia of this exhibition. Their thoroughness and dedication to accessibility of these works deserves all of our gratitude and appreciation.

feminist

Statement for exhibition, Emotional Numbness

JBLM, one of several US military installations surrounding my home in Puget Sound, Salish Sea, dominates the landscape in Western Washington state: there are always traffic jams on Interstate 5 and the social costs of war are constantly present.

Planet Art

Military Archeology 2 in Emotional Numbness

I'm thrilled to announce I'm showing a giclée reproduction at Platform 3 Gallery in Tehran, Iran, exhibition co-sponsored by Women Eco Artists Dialog

5 year plan

#ClimateUrgency

It's not only about climate change; it's about transforming our society to address the need for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have some comments and links below ....

contemporary art

Feminists On The Road

image: Homage to George Tiller, M.D. (1941-2009), acrylic on paper & board, 10 ml polyester stencil, edition of 100, 28 x 20 cm, 2009 Becky Frehse's studio . . . exhibition curated by Ann Leda Shapiro at COCA . . .at Gallery One, 408 N Pearl Street, Ellensburg, WA 98926 March 6 thru 28, 2020.

climate change

Planet Art in the region

Glacier Peak, The Lay of The Land installation shown in La Conner, WA, part of MoNA SURGE in 2018.... upcoming in the WEAD exhibition, Feat to Fire, Sanchez Art Gallery, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, CA

carbon based economy

Civic affairs in Duwamish territory

Crisis management is the conflict of the myth of individual consciousness with the need for social justice, manifested in blame, shame and guilt projected onto our natural processes.

contemporary art

Classic feminist work in "Girlfriends of the Guerilla Girls" includes Re:Seeding Gaia and GG posters

August 1 through September 21, 2019 114 Third Ave South, Seattle, Washington Public Receptions: Thursday, August 1, 6-9PM& Thursday, September 5, 6-9PM

collagraph

Layers of Ancient Texts: mixed media printmaking for a new landscape language

Opening today in downtown Seattle, I'm showing 10 prints at Columbia Tower in "Fresh Pressed" WPW Gallery, 701 5th Avenue, Suite 310, Seattle 98104

climate change

The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis--intellectual resources

Some resources to support Surge and The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis are updated in this post which includes my bibliography/sources, link to a Soundcloud podcast of a museum arts panel discussion on November 17.

Planet Art

Texts for Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis

Heading photo: installation process with the assistance of Rachel Long. Installation view: The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis, 2018

Planet Art

The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis [update]

Encased in ice are secrets, minerals: mica, iron, phosphorus fossilized bodies of ferns and microbes, megafauna, mysteries of life, the living planet. We read these as charts, maps and stories to guide us

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Inspiring and thoughtful Korean moments– Between and Within: A Tenuous Beauty

What excited me was a recent series, *Fossilization*, where Koh lays down the texture of stone with its cracks and scraped ridges, then renders the coot or cormorant with a shadow, suggesting the way a fossil might appear.

printmaking

Sandow Birk in Seattle at Prographica Gallery

There is a terrific exhibition up until Saturday 2.24 at Prographica Gallery in Pioneer Square (same doors as Davidson Gallery on Occidental. Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles artist who works large and small using art historical drawing and printmaking techniques to comment and explore social issues and contemporary

printmaking

Thunder and Lightning Press Fall events

In studio workshop: Introduction to digital photograph manipulation for printmaking: chine collé and polyester lithograph applications $65, includes materials; one day October 22, 12:30-3:30pm Alice Dubiel Open Studio, for the press and Planet Art October 22, 4-6pm. Join Barbara Bruch and me for refreshments, and some demonstrations of

climate change

Survival skills: Climate is Changing

Late August 2017 Summer has been dry and hot in the Pacific northwest: we have had 55 consecutive days without rain, and the land is dry. The overly wet springs, although mild, allowed vegetation to grow profusely; then with the hot, dry days, the overgrown vegetation turned to tinder encouraging

Adding to Archives

I spent the greater part of the previous two weeks preparing posts for listings in the calendar of The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers and materials for the Miriam Shapiro Archive. Now they are appearing and soon will be updated with images. What a terrific resource! I'm so grateful that

Social Justice/Natural Processes: Margaret Sanger and The Book of Shadows

The Book of Shadows: social justice/natural processes acrylic, watercolor and mixed media on wood, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2017 Here is a new work hot off the drafting table featuring Margaret Sanger. It is being offered in Ballard this week, Thursday March 16, 2017, 6-9 pm for

imagine empathy

Disappointed in the cold heart of Seattle’s mayor regarding homeless people, last summer I made a sign “imagine empathy.” There has been much heartache and disappointment since Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray declared a crisis in homelessness in fall 2015. Never in my city did I feel the keen division

Museum of Northwest Art

The Lay of the Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes

The Lay of The Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes, installation view, Museum of Northwest Art, Surge, September 17-25, 2016 acrylic and mixed media on paper, wood, glass, water (from Skagit River delta), lights. This work is part of a continuing series and is in a current stage of its

Current exhibitions and new work

I am preparing a new installation from the series, The Lay of the Land for the Surge Festival, Museum of Northwest Art, 121 South First Street, La Conner WA 98257 (360) 466-4446 Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 10:00am to Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 5:00pm Surge draws attention

New work: The Book of Shadows: audi, pontus/ audi, tellus

(means "hear o sea, hear o earth") 62 x 91 cm, acrylic mixed media on Hanji with wild herbs/grasses includes images of crinoid fossils The title is from Sequentia's cd, Vox Iberica 2, Codex Las Huelgas This particular piece has a lot of women's voice drones in

Another view of The Lay of The Land

I'm proposing another project. Here are some images which inform my approach: Watershrine: We All Live in the Watershed 1990, mixed media, 8 x 13 x 5 feet Flowing Salmon Shrine for Carkeek Park, Seattle WA 1997, mixed media installed approx. 12’ x 12’ x 8’ The Geology of Compassion,

Thunder and Lightning Press open studio & classes

Planet Art is the studio of Alice Dubiel. At Thunder and Lightning Press, a low toxicity studio, Barbara Bruch and Alice create print editions and offer workshops. Our press is a Glen Alps press designed especially for collagraph but etching and relief techniques can be employed. Its capacity for pressure