2019 - 2017

UNBROKEN (Tape)

In 2017, I started a series using scotch tape, ink, acrylic paint, plexiglass and wood. These pieces were repetitive and meditative for me. I did many experiments to figure out the scotch tape properties and it’s adherence to different materials.

Art Historian Susan L. Power writes…

“Deborah Lynn Irmas reinvents traditional mark-making techniques through the novel use of materials - scotch tape, acrylic paint and ink on plexiglass. Functioning like transparent stencils, the outlines of overlapping bits of tape create seemingly random abstract patterns on sixteen monochromatic yet distinctly hued squares forming a larger square grid. Movement and light casting shadows on the wall through the patterned plexiglass animate the orderly geometry of the grid, in which the constituent elements of a kaleidoscope are deconstructed and reassembled.”

“Unbroken”