BIOGRAPHY
Deborah is a premier abstract artist who resides in Charleston, SC. Her work is included in private and corporate collections across the United States and Europe.
Deborah works with oil paints, charcoals, and clay, and loves the way they can be manipulated and moved. Each stroke of the brush is dictated by the one just before it. For her, creating art is all about the process, the color, the form, and the materials. All of these create a challenge that is exciting for her. Her work is non-representational, so if you see a face, a landscape, a flower or some other object, it is not because she painted it there, it is all about what you are seeing.
Her work is about seeing things differently. She believes that to love art is about learning to see. Frank Stella, when asked the meaning of his work, would frequently reply that it was only what you see. This is her philosophy. Deborah believes that each viewer should have a personal experience with art that is unlike anyone else’s. It should be visually pleasing, happy, or even disturbing, but not empty.
She currently incorporates Artificial Intelligence into her work by uploading hundreds of images of her own work into neural networks, which then may take several hours to pick apart those images and then reconstruct them into new images. She then reinterprets those again into a new painting, thus blending traditional painting methods with new age digital imaging.
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Education
B. A. Studio Art with distinction
College of Charleston, SC
Recognition
2021 – Top 60 Masters, NYC
2023 – Leonardo Da Vinci Contemporary Artist Award, Milan, Italy
2023 -International Pegasus for the Arts Award, & Protagonists of Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy
2023 – Michaelangelo The Genius of Italy Award, Rome, Italy
2023 – Career Art Award, Sanremo, Italy
Exhibitions
2023 – ADC Gallery, ‘Art Comes Alive’, Cincinnati, Ohio
2023 -Galeria Azur, ‘Act I”, Miami
2022 -Galeria Azur, Miami
2021- Hill Gallery in the College of Charleston
2021 – “Young Contemporaries” – Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
2018- Group Exhibition of 4 Artists- El Duende- Ottovolarte Gallery – Florence, Italy
2018 Group Exhibition- Brush Strokes- Art Mecca
2017 Group Exhibition – Young Contemporaries – Halsey Institute of Fine Art at the College of Charleston
2016 Solo Exhibition – Art Mecca of Charleston
2015 “Pieces of Me” – Solo exhibition, Charleston
Artist Guild Gallery
2014 Gallery 72 Pop Up group exhibit at the
Lowland Brewery
2013 ‘Let the Music Play’ – Featured Artist exhibit
at the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery
2012 Featured Artist at the Charleston Artist
Guild Gallery
2011 Solo exhibit at the Flagship Gallery
2011 ‘Show of Strength’ – Group exhibit at the
Real Estate Studio
2010 Charleston Artist Guild Gallery
2010 Paintings on exhibit in the Set design of “Little Red Wagon” Major Motion Film
2010 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Indoor Exhibit (only 65 chosen out of 272 entries)
2009 North Charleston Arts Festival Group Exhibit
2009 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibit Group Exhibit (65 artists chosen out of 300 entries)
Charleston Visitors center
2008 “Vanishing Landscapes” Charleston City Gallery Group Exhibit
Piccolo Spoleto/Coastal Conservation League Juried Exhibit (62 artists chose from 275 entries)
2008 “Jail House Art” Charleston Historic Jail House Group Exhibit
2007 Charleston Artist Guild Signature Show Group Exhibit
2007 Charleston Art and Portraits Gallery
Eye Level Art Gallery
2006 “Hallelujah” Charleston Art and Portrait Gallery Group Exhibit
“Jail House Art” Charleston Historic Jail House Group Exhibit
STATEMENT
I work with materials and colors that move me. I love how I can move charcoal around on paper, the way the brush moves the oil paint on the canvas, and the way the clay feels in my hands when I am sculpting. Each stroke of the brush is important, and intentional, dictating what the one after it will be.. For me, it is about the process, the color, the form, and most of all, the materials. I love to experiment with new materials and new processes as it challenges me.
I don’t bother with social issues, nor do I waste my time trying to reproduce what cannot be improved upon in nature. I simply want to create something that is beautiful and unexpected. A personal experience that is different for each person who dares to look inside themselves when they are viewing my works. That experience should be visually pleasing, happy, or even disturbing, but not empty.
