harwoodmuseum.org/exhibition/debbie-long-light-ships
March 19 - October 9, 2022
Debbie Long
Light Ships
Solo Exhibition
August 4-October 7, 2018
Harnessing Light
Bullet Cities (Detail) 2005-2007, 240 x 120 x 4 inches, Cast Glass
Bullet Cities, 2005-2007 is a 10 x 20 foot wall of lavender glass bullet casings that changes with the shifting light of day. The bullet casings were found and cast in the New Mexico desert over a 3 year period.
April 27 - June 22, 2018
Taos 1960's-Present
Vivian Horan Fine Art
35 East 67th Street, New York, NY
Vivian Horan Fine Art is pleased to present “Taos: 1960’s – Present,” opening April 27 through June 22. The exhibition includes a selection of work by artists who have continued the creative legacy of Taos from its early beginnings as an artist’s colony to the thriving artists’ community of today. “Taos: 1960’s – Present,” includes works by the late luminaries Agnes Martin, Ken Price, and Dennis Hopper, and 1960’s Southern Californian artists – Larry Bell, Price, and Ronald Davis – who brought the concerns of the mid-century Los Angeles art scene to Taos, and became pivotal influences for generations of artists working there. The contemporary artists in Taos give material form to their natural surroundings, and to their experiences living in an artists’ colony where art and life are inextricably intertwined.
June 4- July 16, 2016
Naima Trailer
Chimento Contemporary Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Artist talk with Larry Bell and Marc Fichou 4pm. Opening 5-8pm
Naima Trailer 2013, 9 x 18 x 7.5 feet, Trailer, Plywood, Light, Glass
November 30, 2015
December 22, 2014
September 2014
Naima Trailer
Paseo Project Taos, New Mexico
Naima Trailer 2013, 9 x 18 x 7.5 feet, Trailer, Plywood, Light, Glass.
February 22 - May 4, 2014
Art for a Silent Planet: Blaustein, Elder, and Long
Harwood Museum of Art Taos, New Mexico
Yellow Light Box, 88 x 48 x 43 inches, Light, Glass, Plywood
November, 2013
Naima Trailer Featured in Artillery Magazine's coverage of High Desert Test Sites
Naima 2013
9 X 18 X 7.5 feet.
Trailer, Plywood, Light, Glass.
November, 2013
BBC Culture coverage of Art Studio America, a new book about American Artists in their studios, article by Rebecca Laurence
With Debbie Long, Marina Abramovic, Glen Ligon, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Alex Katz, John Giorno, Bill Viola, and Laurie Simmons.
Photo of Debbie Long in her New Mexico Studio by Robin Friend
October 14, 2013
Naima Trailer featured in LA Weekly coverage of High Desert Test Sites 2013
"If You've Ever Wanted to Take a Road Trip Through the Desert, Do It This Week. Article by Marissa Gluck
Naima Trailer, 9 x 18 x 7.5 feet, Trailer, Plywood, Light, Glass
Photo Tina Larkin
October 12-19, 2013
Naima is a chamber of purple glass and light hidden inside a rusted trailer. Naima was selected by Dave Hickey, Libby Lumpkin, Andrea Zittel and Aurora Tang for High Desert Test Sites 2013, where artists' projects will be sited in the desert along the I-40 from Los Angeles, CA. to Albuquerque, NM.
Naima will be sited on a dry lake bed in the Mojave desert near Joshua Tree, CA.
Naima Trailer 2013, 9 x 18 x 7.5 feet, Trailer, Plywood, Light, Glass
We arrived in the Mojave with the Naima trailer after a long drive through the desert between New Mexico and California. Our site for Naima and High Desert Test Sites was a sprawling dry lakebed surrounded by a ring of low hills. We drove around the lakebed all afternoon searching for the perfect spot for Naima, unhitched the trailer, and camped for the night. We were in the most spare and wild desert spot. The sky was a huge bowl covering the lakebed. At night I was surprised by shooting stars.
The next day we were hit by a dust and windstorm that lasted two days. We camped in the desert, dust filling the air and all our gear. At night it was cold and gritty. We started to install Naima with the wind rocking the trailer. We stacked the 150 cardboard boxes filled with glass for Naima inside a tent. The wind finally stopped and I settled in to being out in the elements. We camped out for a week installing Naima.
It's amazing how much more you notice the sky and the light and the cycles of day and night camping out in the desert. I forget or ignore them in the city. I got to see over and over how dramatically the light inside Naima changed at different times of day - sunset, high noon, and even at night under moonlight, which was a surprise. Thank you to all the intrepid people who braved the desert roads and waited in the hot desert sun to see Naima at High Desert Test Sites.
March 23- April 27, 2013
Tow Package
Mark Moore Gallery Project Space Los Angeles, CA
May 24 - June 15, 2008
Forest
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM.
CCA Press Release
Forest, a new installation by Debbie Long at the Center for Contemporary Arts' Spector Ripps Project Space, is a forest of freestanding cast-wax trees made from stacks of massive tree stumps, car parts, and other detritus the artist finds near her home in northern New Mexico. Part of the installation Forest will be created on site at CCA.
Tree Stump Trees, Wax, 92 X 32 X 33 inches (largest)
October 14-November 8, 2008
Migrate Curated by Sabra Moore
Gallery OneTwentyEight
128 Rivington Street, New York, NY
Galley OneTwentyEight, opened in 1986, is the longest running gallery in the Lower East Side. Artist Kazuko Miyamoto is the gallery owner and director.
With Sabra Moore, Howardina Pindell, Kazuko Miyamoto, Linda Peer, Joy Walker, Janet Goldner, Iren Schio, Susanne Vilmain, Isabella Gonzales
In conjunction with Migrate Sabra Moore will read from her book "ON THE MOVE: A MEMOIR OF THE WOMEN'S ART MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY, 1970-1990" at the Brooklyn Museum Sackler Center October 11, 2008
Tow Package (Detail), Glass (Unique Cast Glass Objects including Doge Ram, Cadillac, Ford, Chevy, Lincoln Hood Ornaments and Abstract Elements) 63 x 70 x 5 inches
September 18-October 25, 2009
LAND/ART New Mexico
Sculpture as Analogy to Landscape
Curated by Steve Barry
LAND/ART is a collaborative exploration of land-based art in New Mexico, exploring relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, performances, and a culminating book.
LAND/ART New Mexico Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM 2009
Tree Stump Trees, Wax, 92 x 32 x 33 inches (largest)
March 18- April 25, 2008
Crossed Country Curated by Hannah Cole and Lynne Cooney
Boston University School of Visual Arts Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA
Panel Talk “End of the Road” featuring participating artists and current SVA MFA students, April 16, Sherman Gallery
Bullet Cities 2007
240 x 120 x 4 inches
Cast Glass
(Bullet Casings found in the New Mexico desert over a 3 year period)
October 27, 2007
NM 10
Cinemaland Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA.
Bullet Cities, 180 x 108 x 4 inches, Cast Glass
Bullet Cities, 2005-2007 is a 10 x 20 foot wall of lavender glass bullet casings that changes with the shifting light of day. The bullet casings were found and cast in the New Mexico desert over a 3 year period.