COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
British Museum, London, England
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institute, New York, NY
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
National Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
New York Public Library
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
State Library of South Australia
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Brown University, Providence, RI
University of Georgia, Hargett Library, Special Collections
University for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Savannah College of Art and Design, Jen Library, Artist Book Collection
University of Utah, Mariott Library, Special Collections
Smith College, Northampton, MA
University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Colorado College, Tutt Library, Special Collections
Rutgers University, Dana Library, Newark, NJ
Cal Poly Institute, San Louis Obispo, CA
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Gruss Center of Visual Arts, The Lawrenceville School, NJ, installation
1999 Energy Anatomy, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
1990 Hanah-Kent Gallery, New York, NY
1988 J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
1988 Philadelphia College of Art & Design
1987 Donald Wren Gallery, New York, New York
1982 William & Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia
1981 Johnson College, Vermont
1980 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, installation
GROUP SHOWS
2013 Energy in Mind: Picturing Consciousness, Princeton Brain & Spine Gallery
2012 Animated Books, Musee de I’imprimerie, Lyons, France
2010 Material Translations: Artists’ Books, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
2009 The Book as Art, Books from NMWA, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
2006 20th Anniversary Show, National Museum of Women in the Arts, catalog
2006 Telling the Story: Artists’ Books, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2003 Sign at the Crossroads, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2002 100 Make Prints, Rutgers Center for Print & Paper, NJ State Museum, Morris Museum, Noyes Mus
2002 500 Works on Paper, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
1999 Fine Arts Annual, invited as artist of stature, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1997 Modern American Books Arts at the Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1997 Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1997 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, New Jersey Fellows, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 Paper Words, Florida Craftsman Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
1994 NJ Arts Annual, Fine Arts, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1993 NJSCA Fellowship Show, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ
1993 Attitudes in Artists’ Books, WPA Bookworks & Califia Books, Washington,D.C.
1992 Portfolio, Prints from Printmaking Workshop, NYC, traveled to Bloomfield College and Pino Molica Gallery, Rome, catalog
1992 Library, Granary Books, New York NY
1992 Made in the Midwest: Walter Hamady’s Students, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
1991 Art of the Contemporary Book, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, catalog
1991 Boundless Vision, San Antonio Art Institute, curated by Judith Hoffberg
1991 A Decade of Paper, Annversary Exhibition at Pyramid Atlantic, Washington D.C.
1990 Book Arts in the U.S.A., traveled through Africa, curated by Richard Minsky, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1989 1988 Acquisitions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
1988 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Artists of the Book 1988, Library of the Boston Anthenaem, traveled to American Craft Museum, NYC, Toledo Museum, Ohio, Owensboro Museum, KY, catalog
1988 Arts of the Book, Philadelphia College of Art & Design, catalog
1988 NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, catalog
1988 Practical & Provocative: Contemporary Handmade Books, AIGA Philadelphia Chapter, Painted Bride Arts Center
1988 Bound to Learn, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, catalog
1988 Paper Parallels, Mirror Images, Frostburg State College, Maryland
1987 Pop-up & Movable Books, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
1987 Group Show, Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Inaugural Exhibition of Artists’ Books, National Museum of Women in the Arts
1987 New Jersey Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, catalog
1986 NJSCA Fellowships Recipients, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
1986 Rutgers National Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ, juried by Donald Kuspit, catalog
1986 Donald Wren Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Littlejohn Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Bookworks Invitational, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
1986 Brown Faculty Show, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, catalog
1986 Elighty Years Later, 80th Anniversary Show of Guild of Bookworkers; traveled to University of Iowa, Detroit Public Library, MIT Museum, University of Alabama, Folger Shakespeare Library, catalog
1986 Hand-In-Hand Gallery, 568 Broadway, New York, NY
1985 National Academy of Design Faculty Show, National Academy of Design, NY, NY
1985 American Artists at Leipzig Book Show, Leipzig, Germany, sponsored by Southern Graphics Council, catalog
1986 Book Thought Through, Guild of Bookworkers at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY, catalog
1986 Princeton Faculty Show, Princeton Museum, Princeton, NJ, catalog
1986 Point of Departure; traveled to Penn State, World Print Council in San Francisco, CA, Wellesley College, Cambridge, MA, Philadelphia Print Club. Chicago Public Library
1986 Drawings, Graphics 1 & 2, Newberry Street, Boston, MA
1986 Artists Book Show, Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX
1986 Books As Sculpture, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
1986 Middlesex County College 20th Anniversary Faculty Show, Middlesex Museum, NJ
1986 Womens’ Caucus Book Show, Brand Library, Glendale, California, catalog
1984 Jerome Foundation Awards Show, sponsored by Printmaking Workshop, NYC, traveled
1984 Schoharie National Print & Drawing, Cobleskill, NY, juried by Ivan Karp, catalog
1984 NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Gallery, Clinton, NJ, catalog
1984 Catching The Light: The Artist, The Poet, The Book, Neilson Library, Smith College, MA
1984 NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, Nabisco Brands U.S.A. Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
1984 Point of Departure, Elvehjem Musuem, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1984 Center for Book Arts at New York Public Library, New York, NY, catalog
1983 One Cubic Foot, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, catalog (sponsored by Center for Book Arts, NY, NY)
1983 Sixteen Artists, Condeso Lawler Gallery, Soho, New York, NY
1983 Artists’ Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, 57th Street, New York, NY
1983 Rotating Display of American Press Books, British Museum Library, London, England
1983 City Without Walls Metro Show, Newark, NJ, traveled, juried by Nancy Spero and Richard Haas, catalog
1983 Contemporary Press Books, Grolier Club, New York, NY
1983 Bibliomania: A Play on Paper, Netsky Gallery, Miami, FL
1983 Breaking the Binding, Elvehjem Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, traveled, catalog
1983 Hispanic Heritage: Nobel Prize Literature, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1982 Artists’ Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, 57th Street, New York, NY, traveled to
1982 AIGA Book Show, (American Institute of Graphic Arts), traveled internationally, published in trade book
1981 Artists’ Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, 57th Street, New York, NY
1981 Philadelphia Print Club Exhibiton, juried national, Philadelphia, PA, catalog
1981 RE: Pages, An Exhibition of Contemporary Bookworks, curated by Gary Richman, University of Rhode Island, traveled in New England, catalog
BIOGRAPHY
Debra has received awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts three times, and has also served as a panelist for that organization four times, twice in painting, once in graphics, and once for New Jersey museums. Debra has also received a grant through Rutgers Center for Innovative Prints, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (Pyramid Atlantic), an NEA grant (Women’s Studio Workshop), and a one year Jerome Foundation Scholarship (Printmaking Workshop in NYC). She won a Public Art Competition through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts to build a 25 foot wall mosaic for Chandler Health Center at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.
Debra has published six limited edition books under her press, “Emanon Press” and is currently featured in a show in Lyon, France at the Musee el I’imprimerie.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Brown University (Providence , RI)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
National Academy of Design (New York, NY)
(Le Bonbon magazine, Novembre 2012 – n° 35 – lebonbon.fr)
OPEN BOOK: VISUAL ART RETURNS TO COLOR
Exhibited since March 2012 at the Musée de l’Imprimerie in Lyon, the American artist Debra Weier celebrated the opening of the exhibition “Quand les livres s’amusent” (When Books Have Fun), dedicated to pop-up books. Having just created a unique work inspired by Parc Monceau in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, where she is currently staying, the artist has agreed to unveil her original work exclusively for Le Bonbon.
More than anything, it is the dualities that aren’t really dualities that interest Debra Weier: body and mind, the microscopic and the macroscopic, the energy fields that surround us, and reality. What if every artist were the intermediary between what we see and what we guess? Through her paintings, rich in strong tones revealing a three-dimensional relief that is brightened by the swirls, Debra Weier suddenly makes the imperceptible visible. An invitation to a journey between space, time, movement, and color, her polymorphic work—which blends paintings, printed art, books, installations, and sculptures—captures the intangible world of the unseen and attractions, in a quasi-continuous process of discovery. This is something you can’t refuse. Regularly presented since the 1980s in galleries in New York, Princeton, and Washington, Debra Weier’s work brings together different creative media that cross-pollinate. The goal?
To explore the infinite potential of formal assemblages. Inspired, among other things, by 14th-century Japanese art and its famous handwritten scrolls, Debra Weier draws from it a cinematic inspiration where, on the same medium, narration and illustrations intertwine in a near-perfect osmosis. Her recent work “Epithalamium” – an ode to marriage created with the collaboration and texts of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon – reveals, between visible strings, paper structures and organic pop-ups, forms with a tactile and visual charge evoking both the unfolding towards infinity and the retraction within the being – nothing less.