Conversation with Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Buzz Spector, and Amanda Verbeck

Wednesday, June 15 at 6:30pm ET

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Searching for Peace is evidence of the inevitable interplay between an artist’s solitary workings in the studio and those of a turmoiled outside world. While serious in subject matter, Dubinsky’s work is also intuitive and playful––a metaphor for a multifaceted life.

Yvette Drury Dubinsky, based in Truro, MA; New York, NY; and St. Louis, MO, earned her M.F.A. from the Sam Fox School at Washington University, where she has also twice received distinguished alumni awards.  

She has had recent solo exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; Farm Projects, Wellfleet, MA; and Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO. In 2021, her work was included in group shows at the Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY; MIT’s Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA; Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO; and at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA. This spring, her work traveled to Japan and will go to Poland in the summer alongside the work of other A.I.R. artists. 

Dubinsky’s work is in the collections of the St. Louis Art Museum, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art and the Environment, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Margaret Harwell Art Museum, and has been part of the Art in Embassies Program of the United States Department of State. Dubinsky has been the recipient of a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. www.yddstudio.com.

Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums as the Saint Louis Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, and most recently, Rockford Art Museum. Spector's work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. He has published a number of artists' books and editions since the mid-1970s, including, most recently, Buzzwords, selected interviews with Spector and new page art, issued by Sara Ranchouse Publishing, Chicago, in 2012. Other Spector publications include White Insistence, a limited edition collaboration with poet Michael Burkhart self-published by the artist in 2009, and Time Square, a limited edition letterpress book hand altered by the artist and published in 2007 by Pyracantha Press and ABBA at Arizona State University in Tempe.Spector was a co-founder of WhiteWalls, a magazine of writings by artists, in Chicago in 1978, and served as the publication's editor until 1987. Since then he has written extensively on topics in contemporary art and culture, and has contributed reviews and essays to a number of publications, including American Craft, Artforum, Art Issues, Art on Paper, Hand Papermaking, and New Art Examiner. He is the author of The Book Maker's Desire, critical essays on topics in contemporary art and artists' books (Umbrella Editions, 1995), and numerous exhibition catalogue essays including, most recently, Shona Macdonald: siding with things ( Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, 2021) and Luis Camnitzer: Forewords and Last Words (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2011.Spector received the Distinguished Teaching of Art Award from the College Art Association in 2013. Other recognition includes a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA Fellowship), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship in 1991, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards in 1982, 1985, and 1991.

Amanda Verbeck is an artist and the owner, master printer, and publisher at Pele Prints. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and has over 20 years of experience as a printmaker. After working with several presses in the St. Louis area, Amanda started Pele Prints in 2006. Pele Prints is a collaborative fine art printmaking studio dedicated to creating limited edition prints and original works of art. The goal is to create a unique body of work that displays the curiosity, learning, and constant discovery exemplified in the collaborative process at its best. Work from Pele has been exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, and the prints can be found in numerous corporate and private collections.