Exhibition Title: "Debra Rapoport: Turning a Corner... Playing with an Open Heart -- Works from 1969 through 1994" Dates: May 16 to June 17 Where: Design Gallery 145 Walker Hall University of California, Davis Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday 2 - 5 p.m. Sunday Closed holidays Reception: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, May 15 Artist: Debra Rapoport "Debra Rapoport: Turning a Corner..." is a retrospective exhibition of the internationally known New York-based artist's creations over a 25-year period. Works to be displayed will include jewelry, costumes, tapestries and hats. The exhibition will contain necklaces made from metal found on the streets of New York City, costumes of crocheted sisal and discarded videotape, and layered and embellished altars constructed from throw-away cheese boxes. Rapoport begins with basic nonprecious, often recyclable materials such as paper, plastic, metal and dried botanicals, and transforms them into beautifully elegant multilayered works. Ornament magazine writes of her work: "Rapoport's ability to see beauty in the absolutely mundane is the magic which informs all of her work." The exhibition will show her mastery of patina, her talent for embellishing and Rapoport's own definition of the ABC's, Assembling, Building, and Constructing. This exhibition of her work begins with her 1969 "fibrous raiments" master's project from UC Berkeley and ends with her most recent medium, banana fiber paper hats and lampshades. Her documented collaborative process and installation work will also be highlighted. Rapoport addresses women's issues and personal spiritual statements through her work. She often creates performance pieces that capture transitory expressons of the human form. She has exhibited at the World Crafts Council Conference in Austria, the International Tapestry Biennials in Switzerland, and the American Crafts Museum in New York. Rapoport was a UC Davis environmental design faculty member from 1970-1978 who taught fiber and costume design. She returned to her native New York in 1979 and since has pursued mixed-media art and developed a floral design business. She studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and received her master's degree in textile design from UC Berkeley.