Deborah Doering
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http://deborahdoering.com
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Deborah Adams Doering is a Chicago-based visual artist (installations, drawings, prints) whose work is grounded by minimalist forms, beginning with the circle (the zero), the vertical line (the one), the horizontal line (the dash), and the swash (the tilde).
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These forms allow for associations ranging from electronic codes and personal narratives, to venacular ideograms and contemporary art-related global dialogues.
Her “core language of form” (“code”) is a point of departure for site-specific installations in various contexts, creating both aesthetic and social movement through the interaction and participation of the art-viewing public.
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Short Statement:
My work seeks an integration of Art, Nature, and Technology.
In considering Nature in my work, I think about opposites, about dualities.
Nature expresses herself in day and night, breathing in, breathing out, visible forms and invisible energies.
Human beings exist in relationship to these dualities.
I often think of duality as two spectrums, horizontal lines and vertical lines stretching in opposite directions. I have used these lines to create images based on grids. One concept implied by the form of the grid is that integrating dualities, "make" and "unify" an image.
Another concept I associate with the grid is the integration of our Nature with an increasingly technological Culture.
In our context, we are becoming more and more connected (and sometimes disconnected) through our electronic technologies, our codes of "zeros" and "ones." The duality of "zero as nothing" and "one as something" can be seen as the “invisible” technology behind the “visible” images and installations that I create.
The "one" is a vertical line, but it might also be seen as a "zero" or a circular form in a particular space. The horizontal line is a circle, prone, perhaps at rest. (An animation of this process can be seen at www.deborahdoering.com / video summary. Also, see diagram to right of photo above.)
So I also see duality as a moving, unified form. And in addition, the movement itself, created by a circle, (a zero), can be seen as a swash mark, or in technical language, a tilde.
So this tilde-swash, documenting the circle's movement in space, provides a point of departure for me. And these forms provide a point of departure for viewers, those who are conscious observers, who I consider critical participants in the art process.
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Deborah Doering has participated in the following Op Shops:
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