Propædia: (A Course of Study)
Ruminations on the nature of print set in hollowed out encyclopedia bindings. (An ongoing series)
Mementos of Six Millennia
This installation consists of 96 panels, any number of which can be assembled and reassembled in a multitude of ways. The panels exist as discrete entities that build sequentially to create meaning in the way words in a sentence or pages in a book create a narrative.
photo credit: Deborah Denker
Diary of a Pandemic
Painted and screen-printed circular wood panels contain diagrammatic images of the coronavirus and fragments of text from my pandemic journals.
photo credit: Deborah Denker
Game Theory
Each work in the series appears to be a childhood game but addresses larger questions about our behavior and attitudes. To hear from an economist…
photo credit: Deborah Denker
Galaxy Paintings
These paintings contain various images that attempt to describe or explain the cosmos and its origins. The images include photographs of the heavens as seen through a telescope, scientific diagrams and illustrations from spiritual texts, including Tantric paintings from India.
photo credit: Deborah Denker
Wunderkammer
Wunderkammern, literally ‘wonder-cabinets’, is a German name given to cabinets which housed collections of curiosities. With origins in the Renaissance, Wunderkammern continued to be popular through the Victorian era. Fossils, minerals, plants, or paintings might have filled these cabinets.
Index
Index is made up of 106 wood panels, each 4 X 6” in size, screen-printed to resemble index cards, and organized into seven separate pieces.
Lost Manga Drawings
An ongoing series of mixed media drawings based loosely on an untitled three-volume album by Katsushika Hokusai.
Etchings
Printed at El Moro Editions in Los Osos, CA.
Artist Books
A series of seven books, each containing from 12 to 16 drawings. The media are graphite, oil pastel, collage, monotype and photo etching.