Debbie Korbel
Los Angeles, California
Debbie Korbel is an artist whose creativity has been expressed in painting and sculpture as well as by writing television scripts and song lyrics.
MessageDebbie Korbel is an award-winning sculptor whose work has been exhibited and collected internationally. She is thrilled to include Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, as one of her collectors. Her work has been featured in several major magazines and newspapers including Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Western Art & Architecture, and American Art Collector. She has also had her art featured on banners in Times Square. Her most recent solo exhibition in 2020 was held at The Museum of Art & History, Lancaster. Additionally, she has written comedy scripts for television and is currently partnered in a songwriting team, PD Songwriting, which has a channel on YouTube.
Statement
Everyone knows what it is like to lie on their back and “see” images in the clouds. When I was a child, I would see images not only in the clouds but in the random patterns of linoleum flooring, plaster ceilings, the grain in wood-- even the way shadows fell across a wall would suggest figures or landscapes to me. As an adult, I approach my sculpture materials the same way by standing back and looking for what I “see” emerge.
I create my assemblage sculptures by using my original sculpted elements and combining them with an assortment of objects I have collected. Often the initial impetus for the sculpture occurs when I find some interesting fragment of metal or wood. Then an idea takes root and evolves from that “catalyst” piece. Every sculpture is like a puzzle for which I find and fit each seemingly unrelated piece together in its most expressive form in order to create something new.
Humor, love, beauty, vulnerability, heartbreak— If I can get you to see or feel emotion from something I have created, then I have succeeded in making that human connection. We are no longer strangers; we are of like mind—if even just for a few moments.
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