NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 31, 2025

Debbie Dickinson, the coveted art gallery curator, will showcase her latest collection of artists at Art On Paper: New York, beginning this Thursday, September 4. The 4-day exhibit will be at Pier 36 in downtown Manhattan here in New York City where “Convergence”, will focus on the evolution of each artist who will take us through their journey of struggle and triumph. The Debbie Dickinson Gallery of “Convergence” artists will include Carole Bolger, S.L. Fuller, Bill Buchman, Iran Issa Khan, Al Diaz, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Michael Katz.

CAROLE BOLGER

Stacked up by graphite, acrylic, dye, and arches, we all have a chance to look back at our humble abodes no matter the town or city. “Been There and Back” by Carole Bolger takes you through stacked homes of the past up till now which shows you happy and adverse times. Each home we settle in throughout our lives presents our greatest achievements along with the lowest points in our life. Broken windows and damaged siding in-between start to finish reflect perfectly our struggles, while first and present home feel comfortable to now finally live to tell the tale.

S.L. FULLER

As an artist, coming up with an idea by itself is the simplest part of bringing it to reality, the hard part now is conveying that idea. And along the way, we need some type of release to help us while we struggle with art, sometimes even a muse. Meet “Bebe”, the artist muse created by S.L. Fuller, comprised on India Ink on Arches Cold Press Paper, where artists feel like they’re looking at the most beautiful flower in the world. “Bebe” converges a beautiful woman with a beautiful lithe staying as youthful and exciting as possible.

BILL BUCHMAN

During a previous art exhibition of Debbie Dickinson called “Silence”, Bill Buchman featured “Zentopia”, acrylics celebrating minimalism reinforcing space to reflect. Now, Bill Buchman features “Zentopia 10”, an evolved arch that now includes deeper hues of blue with black as a new element. The arch itself has broken from its solid barrier to converge into a broken up space that’s now an overall bigger dimension than the original “Zentopia”. What started out as a silent space has morphed into welcoming space for all to engage in.

IRAN ISSA KHAN

It’s very simple to picture what pure happiness is, it can be a moment, a song, a piece of good news, or all of the above. Here with “Golden Pleasure”, Iran Issa Khan uses archival pigment print to create the evidently ideal fixture of what the work is. Without too much thought, this orange-yellow like floral stands tall to be the object of no conflict, just unbridled joy at work. And while we’re on point with its purpose, “Golden Pleasure” too represents happiness of any kind that you feel.

AI DIAZ

In the middle of a garden, roses and florals all aligned by design, there’s the audacity of an army tank, and it’s not just one. “Because War…”, this profound piece by Al Diaz constructed on Giclee Print AP, stresses the apparent war happening in the world while we live in peace. War is also a business that involves conflict, weapons, and tragedy. But in this Al Diaz piece, his view of War is more than the obvious, just simply business as usual.

ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST

No one can count the amount of times that paranoia follows each step we take from wake up to sleep, it’s evident here in New York City. Albeit, no other city outside NYC has any legit excuse for paranoia, it’s still a factor, it can be evident even in people. At that point, people are not paranoia, they’re paranoids. That’s what “Emma” is feeling in Anthony Haden-Guest’s Splatoon Series as ink and marker on paper sense Emma feeling like paranoids are following her again.

MICHAEL KATZ

Mixed media is at play here with this “Sun Shower” of dancing streams as if it were rain, shooting into the sky creating arches of yellow. The origins of this shower are a mix of black, blue, green, purple, and red which normally generates rain. But when the sun meets storm clouds moving it, this cold front opens up the sun to break through, causing in real life a rainbow to take place. This is what a typical hot summer afternoon feels like, high heat and heavy winds followed by diminished sunlight before a severe thunderstorm occurs.

DANIEL QUINTANILLA