Planet Art * Alice Dubiel

colonialism

The Landscape Tale

Excerpts from the quotation essay, The Landscape Tale ...To think about distant places, to colonize them, to populate or depopulate them: all of this occurs on, about, or because of land. The actual geographical possession of land is what Empire in the final analysis is all about. At

contemporary art

The Landscape Tale, update

Exhibition includes the original 1993 installation exhibited at 911 media arts, Seattle, newly revised with exquisite giclée reproductions on prepared canvas, and Visions and Revisions of Mt. Rainier at Seafirst Gallery installation in 1998.

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Landscape, revived

exhibition in Seatttle opening September 1, 2024..."This exhibition was about how land use in the Euro-American tradition informs landscape painting...."

anti-war

People of Conscience

I am writing again to urge action for people in Gaza. First, advocate with the Biden/Harris Administration to stop the continual weapons supply ...

feminist Featured

Freedom, Privacy and the Right to Healthcare

[Update 09.16.2022] I have created a mass printed postcard, reproduced here, sending it to local and national government representatives via US Postal Service surface mail, since many do not accept electronic correspondence from anyone other than their donors.

climate change

Deep Water: Fossils in the Book of Shadows

The works draw from images of fossil diatoms and crinoids, and evoke the profound changes to our oceans and bodies of water with climate change.... I'm titling these from deep water and storm imagery of Shakespeare's The Tempest....

resilience

Medicare does not cover at-home tests

I want to call your attention to the issue of testing, especially to note that a key vulnerable population, Medicare recipients, are not covered for FDA authorized self administered at home COVID-19 tests.

#DontMakeMyCityAThemePark

[updated 10.24.2021] This digital brochure is my homage to Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells ... I’ve listed my personal recommendations for my own local ballot and explored some background about my interests.

anti-war

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

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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

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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

Planet Art

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

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