Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Deborah Benioff Friedman ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [HOME](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [Wire & Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/wire-and-paper/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [Ledger Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/ledger-paper/) - Ledger Paper Ledger paper presents endless possibilities for cutting out the grid shapes, dyeing with tea and then cutting and shaping again. I love the writing and numbers, as well as the patterns, lending a skeletal or architectural feel to the pieces.Many pieces are made by first cutting ledger paper with a blade, then treating - [Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/paper/) - Paper Paper fascinates me—whether it’s old envelopes salvaged from an estate sale, teabags and cereal boxes rescued from household wastebaskets, painted papers and ephemera, detritus from my workspace, or fragments of my own discarded artwork.Many of the pieces are hand-stitched with thread or wire, and some are dyed using tea, onion skin, or kakishibu (fermented - [Books](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/books/) - Books These handmade and altered books are created using a range of materials—ink, paint, paper and cardboard of all kinds, tea dye, kakishibu, eco-dyes, wire, and string—and processes such as burning, sewing, cutting, and sanding. Some pages hold fragments of my poetry or photographs. With a minimum of words, I’m exploring the essence of what - [WORK](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [CONTACT](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/contact/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [Collage](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/collage/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [Reused Materials](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/reused-materials/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [Watercolor & Ink](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/watercolor-and-ink-2/) - Watercolor & Ink The prints are made with a gel plate and Akua inks. Some of them are embellished with line drawingFaces were drawn onto a fingerprint or a watercolor background. I have made over 400 of them from 2017 to the present. They are all faces from my imagination, but I am pretty sure - [Textiles](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/work/textiles/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. - [Artist Statement](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/about/artist-statement/) - Artist Statement What do I want to make? Objects with a sense of history, of strata, of “wear and tear.” I enjoy following my intuition rather than a plan, keeping open to the mysteries right in front of me or hidden under the surface. Archaeology, paleontology, geology, genealogy, and the unconscious: all are big influences, - [Catalog Essay](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/about/catalog-essay/) - Catalog Essay A catalog was produced in 2016 with the following essay by Maria Porges. If you wish a free copy of the whole catalog (color with photos), please send me your mailing address. Deborah Benioff Friedman: Something from Nothingby Maria Porges…We are the songdeath takes its own time singing. It calls usas I call - [Links](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/about/links/) - Links Exhibitions2022Pulp: Book & Paper Arts, an International Juried Exhibition at Sebastopol Center for the Arts : my pieces are at 26:46 and 20:20 YouTube Videos (of mobiles created with Tom Russell)2019Spring FlingOn the Verge of Silence2016Orbum MundosRelicta Mundos Online Interviews2020Exhibition at North Berkeley Wealth Management, Berkeley CAhttps://northberkeleywealth.com/art/art-exhibit/pieced-together“Fragments” exhibition artists talk at Arc Gallery, San - [CV](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/about/cv/) - CV Solo Exhibitions2021“Shadow Box,” Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA2020“Register,” Sticks Framing and Fine Art, Berkeley, CA2018“Salvage,” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA“Record of the Journey” Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA2017“Evidence,” Sticks Framing and Fine Art, Berkeley, CA2016“Art-i-fact-ual,” Sticks Framing and Fine Art, Berkeley, CA “Art in the Library Program,” Napa County Library, Napa, CA Two- - [ABOUT](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/about/) - Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use. ## Projects - [Books](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/portfolio/books/) - Books These handmade and altered books are made using various techniques and materials, such as paper pulp, tea dye, fermented persimmon juice (Kakishibu), sewing, cutting, eco-dying, and burning. Some of the altered books contain poems or poem fragments and pieces of photographs. Anatomy Text Paper, wire, thread, pva 12 x 9 x 5 in Back - [Works on Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/portfolio/works-on-paper/) - [Works of Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/portfolio/works-of-paper/) - [Collage on Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/portfolio/collage-on-paper/) - These collages are made with various scrap papers on discarded monotype prints. Occasionally the ink from the old print shows through. Sometimes they are sanded to reveal hidden seams and lines. ## Project Types - [Books](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-type/books/) - [Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-type/paper/) ## Project Tags - [Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-tag/paper/) - [Collage on Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-tag/collage-on-paper/) - [Works of Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-tag/works-of-paper/) - [Books](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-tag/books/) - [Works on Paper](https://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com/project-tag/works-on-paper/)