Debra Jan Bibel
MORPHOLOGIES:
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Paintings are my
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The foundation of Bibel's art is her questioning of our common perception of reality. Just as color juxtapositions and line patterns can be visually perceived as both illusional depth fields and linear or regional distortions, so too our perception of the world, while real, is yet illusional from our restrictive perspective, which is governed and limited by our origins not into but rather from the universe. Thus rooted in the material aspects of biological survival, our senses shape our existence in terms of linear time and familiar three-dimensional space, despite the more expansive evidence of modern physics describing the underpinnings of the cosmos, with strange, nonlinear interconnectiveness and perhaps 11 dimensions. We need to view our essentially nonobjective world obliquely or askance to recognize its plasticity and potentials. Bibel's bold and bright geometric abstract acrylic paintings manifest her motto as if and signal this state of ambiguity and fundamental existential doubt, the mystery of deeper order, and the longing, the quest, for resolution. In her City Synthesis Series, for instance, the intensity of color and strength of line resemble the perspective of meditative consciousness. In her latest paintings, the joyous interactions of line and space are key, for geometric harmony and the clarity of simplicity can also beget the smile of play. Serious philosophy now steps into the background to allow whimsy and an adventure of sportive engineering.
Bibel uses acrylics and ink on canvas and
occasionally plywood. Calligraphy pieces are sumi ink on Japanese paper. |
Heart Sutra
(2006) |
Piano Jazz (2003),
18 × 36 in., complete
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Bibel is in the tradition of her family, as her uncle is noted WPA artist of the Great Depression, Leon Bibel, and she is the daughter of furniture designer and artist Philip Bibel. She also studied Chinese calligraphy under Kaz Tanahashi. In addition to art, Bibel
has a wide background in laboratory research, history of medicine, philosophy of science,
ethnomusicology, and poetry. She has authored five books and
numerous professional articles. |
THE GALLERIES OF MORPHOLOGIES [Click text or picture to enter each gallery; 3 tiers] |
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City Synthesis: Resonance
[2019 – present
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City Synthesis: I – 5
[2008 – present
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[1998–2003] |
[1993–2001] |
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[1973–2005] |
[2003–2007] |
[2001–2012] |
[2007] |
Miscellaneous/East Asian
[1979–2018] |
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Antecedents [1972–1991] |
Brush & Ink/Calligraphy | Black & White Photography |
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