Debbie Secan Studio Artist

First painting completed in my new home studio!

Homage to Levi Strauss
12x12
Acrylic on Blue jeans

Last First Friday at Artspace!!
June 5th, 6-10 (but if you want to be sure to catch me come between 6:30-9:30)

It's my last First Friday in Artspace! Come by and see me!!

Well....
I've moved most of my stuff out of Artspace and it's all sitting in boxes in my home studio. I've been frozen for months, pretty much unable to accomplish anything with this disruptive move. I have this denim canvas that I've been afraid to touch because people told me I should just leave it raw. That isn't what I do. If I did that I'd be some other artist. I had a plan and I'm sticking to it. So I started painting it. I feel like I'm starting over and I've never painted before in my life. But I'll get there. Stay tuned.

My two most recent paintings.
The Sun Sets in the West
A New Day will Rise
Both are 45x45 inches
Acrylic on Salvaged Material

I'm under the weather and won't be at Artspace tonight, but my studio is open

It's been a Spring. Lots going on.
I got to work on something. An homage to Levi Strauss, coming soon.
Bara Bara opening this Friday night at Diamonte in Raleigh! Support an awesome organization. Lots of good, reasonably priced artwork.
Closing in Brooklyn, Unfinished Liberation. If you are there and have a chance to drop in it sounds like it will be a terrific, Jewish centered art event.
And my ankle is still sprained. I always stand when I work so that's annoying. But this too shall pass.

Super excited to have my work exhibited in Brooklyn! Even more excited that my NYC debut is at a gallery associated with Chabad. Sad that I'm missing the opening because I know that it will be heimish.

Shipped three paintings to Brooklyn for an exhibit

Here is the artist statement I sent with them. The exhibit opens 3/15

My work explores the choices Jews have faced since we placed our trust in HaShem and walked between walls of water toward freedom in the Exodus from Egypt. I use the structure of the Star of David to express the tension between revealed and hidden blessings in Jewish life. Some expressions of Jewish identity are quiet and beautiful, like lighting candles and gathering for Shabbat with family and friends. A strong connection to Eretz Yisrael is made chaotic by our fractured world, reminding us that the path toward liberation and freedom has never been simple.

Paintings: Shabbat, The Land, The Waters Were Heaped Up
All 12X12, Acrylic on Salvaged Material

Shabbat Shalim

Today I took a tour with my Hadassah friends, and Mom, of The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, led by Curator of European Art, Michele Fredrick. Excellent!! This is the last weekend to see this beautiful exhibit at NCMA. It has been an honor to be associated with it in the special exhibition gift shop.
PS "they" say we're supposed to put faces in our IG posts so I put in lots of faces.