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Art studio, gallery, and zendo of Debra Jan Bibel Eventually retirement dictated a change of direction. research in microbiology. Patterns of form make existence.

the fields. Bibel was a working scientist at the time, and besides research, she wrote articles and two books on the history of these sciences. The library contents were sold to a rare books dealer in southern California. As she was always an artist, as her father and uncle, the one time hobby transitioned to a serious, professional endeavor. Bibel’s more formal art studies began with the works and writings of Piet Mondrian, pioneer geometric abstractionist, a hard-edge painter. Her rubric became morphology, the science of shape and form as it relates to function, which was her Ph.D. Squares, rectangles, stripes, circles, and lines were the initial building blocks and focus. They in turn were the components of a city synthesis, using actual locations as models. Mondrian was a Theosophist in Paris, and his grid paintings of line and bold primary colors had spiritual and architectural purposes toward clarity of mind. Bibel, a Zen Buddhist, similarly developed her art to depict, by analogy, altered perception of structures after intense meditation. The rigidity of line and ruler has a counterpoint of bush and ink on rice paper, with the flowing curves of Chinese calligraphy and the controlled accident of sumi-e drawing. The seemingly opposite yet maintains balance and harmony and also introspective, perceptive qualities. Recent paintings merge the two sides by encompassing these approaches with acrylic on canvas. The latest series of paintings emphasizes the abstract quality of the actual, when reduced to elementals by shape and altered by hue. We are conditioned via culture and biology to define relationships and construct categories. Drummers are keen to rhythms in daily life; meditators are alert to the passing parades of sound and color; scientists examine the ideals of mathematics in behavior of objects and the paradoxical emptiness of matter. As the title of her website [www.lonemountain-art.com] expresses, Bibel’s experimental morphological art evolves. What will develop with this new direction is unknown, especially to herself. Debra Jan Bibel has a personal page on Facebook as well and that features her Amazon reviews of musical albums.

11/08/2025

A new painting. It may seem abstract but it is essentially real. Check my comment below for title. Click on image for enlargement.

08/07/2025

New painting. It seems abstract but it is entirely representational and in scale. Title is "Ironside Mountain Lookout". 40 × 30 in. [Visit my art website www.lonemountain-art.com for all my works.]

13/05/2025

A new painting, "Thought Bubbles". [Metaphor akin to air bubbles that arise in boiling water.] It is in reference to mindfulness-of-mind meditation during which you are aware of arising thoughts and emotions that quickly dissolve or fade ONLY if you do not attach them with more thoughts, associations, feelings, worries, plans ("monkey-mind"). They arise from subconsciousness processing and neuro noise (c.f., quantum fluctuations). With practice, fewer thought bubbles arise and the mind is more concentrated and focused on the here, now. For more information: see www.lonemountain-art.com/fresh.html

29/04/2025

The biography of my artist uncle is now available from Rutgers University Press and in a week at Amazon. Full of illustrations.

Leon Bibel (1913–1995) was a prolific modern American artist who painted, printed, stamped, etched, sketched, and carved. He produced pieces that ranged fr...

01/04/2025

A new painting: "Christmas". The brain processes circles and angular, multilinear forms differentily. Circles beget positive emotions, the other shapes are viewed negatively, as hazards — a child's balloon versus a centipede, spider, or cactus spikes. The combination, while in conflict, has rounded forms dominating, hence the pleasure of a Christmas tree beyond religion and presents. See www.lonemountain-art.com/fresh.html

28/02/2025

My latest painting, Cycle Circle. Depicted is, of course, Stonehendge, which is an observatory for the solstice and keeper of the eclipse cycles, but the rain, clouds, and snow also relate to another cycle, the water cycle. 20 × 40 inches.

02/02/2025

The second painting of my diptych is complete: Al-Andalus [Córdoba mosque]. You can see the two paintings side by side on my website www.lonemountain-art.com/fresh.html
which also has more information about the new painting.

09/01/2025

Part 1 of a diptych [Islamic Circle] is completed. It is "Blue Mosque", derived from my photograph inside the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Instanbul. For further information, please visit my website, www.lonemountain-art.com/fresh.html
I have begun Part 2, which should be finished by mid February.

23/12/2024

My painting "Zen" appears on the cover of digital EP album of protest songs. Free to listen, free to download.

8 track album

11/12/2024

New painting. "Iguazu Mergings". 24 × 36 inches. 16,500 circles. Feel the flow, hear the roar.

28/10/2024

Calvin in Calvin & Hobbes: Why does man [sic] create? Is it man's purpose on Earth, to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored? — Women also, young lad. I was reviewing my thousands of travel photographs (see my website), hoping to find an image to inspire or render as painting. One candidate was from Spain and another from Turkey, but I decided to first return to Brazil and the power of Iguazu. Planned is a 24 × 36 × 2.5 inch canvas. When an artist, writer, composer completes a piece, there is that aching gap waiting for the next project. It is more acute for an elder as myself; such creative objectives maintain purpose to life, stimulate the mind, keep hands and coordination active. This should keep me busy for two months!

27/10/2024

A bit of whimsy, my small [24 × 30 in.] painting "Ideal Weather, Whether Ideal" is not a new direction but time-filling busy work waiting for the next major project. It belongs in my Circle & Line series, not with Resonance. Yes, the conflict in visual perspective is part of the mind play. Have you ever ridden in a hot-air balloon? I did once in the 1980s in the Napa wine country. There is no sense of movement, floating with the light breeze, close to feeling like a soaring bird. Exhilirating, such that it was part of a precognitive verbal experience. An enlargement and other recent paintings on my art website, lonemountain-art.com/fresh.html

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Chapter 5

Studio Lone Mountain is the abode and workplace of Debra Jan Bibel, painter and photographer, retired medical scientist and editor, sometime poet, and constant Zen practitioner. The early studio space was once a library dedicated to the history of medical microbiology and immunology, known as the Elie Metchnikoff Memorial Library, housing some 1,200 books, numerous articles, and objects related to the fields. Bibel was a working scientist at the time, and besides research, she wrote articles and two books on the history of these sciences. Eventually retirement dictated a change of direction. The library contents were sold to a rare books dealer in southern California. As she was always an artist, as her father and uncle, the one time hobby transitioned to a serious, professional endeavor.

Bibel’s more formal art studies began with the works and writings of Piet Mondrian, pioneer geometric abstractionist, a hard-edge painter. Her rubric became morphology, the science of shape and form as it relates to function, which was her Ph.D. research in microbiology. Squares, rectangles, stripes, circles, and lines were the initial building blocks and focus. They in turn were the components of a city synthesis, using actual locations as models. Mondrian was a Theosophist in Paris, and his grid paintings of line and bold primary colors had spiritual and architectural purposes toward clarity of mind. Bibel, a Zen Buddhist, similarly developed her art to depict, by analogy, altered perception of structures after intense meditation.

The rigidity of line and ruler has a counterpoint of bush and ink on rice paper, with the flowing curves of Chinese calligraphy and the controlled accident of sumi-e drawing. The seemingly opposite yet maintains balance and harmony and also introspective, perceptive qualities. Recent paintings merge the two sides by encompassing these approaches with acrylic on canvas.

The latest series of paintings emphasizes the abstract quality of the actual, when reduced to elementals by shape and altered by hue. Patterns of form make existence. We are conditioned via culture and biology to define relationships and construct categories. Drummers are keen to rhythms in daily life; meditators are alert to the passing parades of sound and color; scientists examine the ideals of mathematics in behavior of objects and the paradoxical emptiness of matter.