Research and Media
Studio Noize In the Quiet Spaces w/ Printmaker Deborah Grayson
2022
The wonderful Deborah Grayson joins the Studio Noize fam! Deborah is a printmaker artist from Silver Spring, MD, and has been making work about the intersection of science and race. We dive into the deep with some printmakers talk about ink and process but we also explore her work that includes extensive research, drawing, and multiple print processes. Deborah talks about how she expresses herself in her work, moving her body when working, and cheating worlds for Black people.
Hello Print Friend X Deborah Grayson: Episode 113
2022
We talk about her practice working with photos of institutionalized black women from archives of insane asylums and how an artist handles such sensitive material without further exploiting the subjects, the history of racism within scientific and health fields, centering the story of black women, and how she protects her own mental health while working with such difficult material
Deborah Grayson
They Think of Love as a Reddening of the Earth Under the Sun
April 6–28, 2024
“They Think of Love as a Reddening of the Earth Under the Sun” is about what happens at the intersection of the archive, biomythography, and spirit memory. For the last seven years Grayson has been deeply immersed in origin stories—stories that say something about who we are, where we’ve been, and who we might become if we rewild ourselves and our stories. She reflects on questions like: Who are our people? How have we connected with and nurtured lands and communities? What are the rituals that have sustained and carried our families? What artifacts have we fashioned to bring magic, love, and life to lands and communities? She asks these questions as she wanders through archives and maps, time, space and cultures to restore the stories that have been violently annotated or redacted. Each work of art in They See Love is inspired by the stories of our ancestors to ground ourselves in communion with the land and community.
IA&A at Hillyer
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