Deborah is a native Long Islander. After completing her studies at SUNY at Stony Brook, she worked in the New York City Theatre during the late 70’s and early 80’s. Later she studied painting with Eleanor Dragonette, Carl Molno, Betty Holiday and Stan Brodsky. She also completed workshops with Craig Taylor, Honor Mack, Deborah Zlotsky and Alfredo Gisholt at MassArt. And has been painting for more than 35 years.
Currently and for the last 16 years Deborah has been the curator at the Alfred Van Loen Gallery, SHPL Huntington Station, New York.
She also worked as Stan Brodsky’s assistant 2010-2013.
As an intuitive painter Deborah uses recall, feelings and music as stimulation. Her paintings are part observation and part imagination. Through the influence of her weekly walks her paintings become a symbolic synthesis of abstraction and reality, mirroring and reflecting nature. Flowing streams, trees, leaves and flowers are a dance of color and shapes stirring her imagination.
While working mostly in oils on canvas or paper, she also uses mixed mediums, as well as working with watercolor, gouache, oil pastels, and ink on paper. Her subjects and styles vary from loosely painted florals, wetlands and other nature influenced subjects to biomorphic abstractions.
During her early childhood years Deborah’s family lived on the grounds of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum. It was during those years, Deborah says that her passion and love of nature became rooted in her soul along with her passion for music, color, mark making, shapes and light. Her goal is to keep an ambiguity in her work while allowing the viewer his own interpretation, a kind of “visual music”. She works to achieve paintings that are a bit lyrical and poetic. Her process becomes more of a state of mind.
Deborah describes her work as a curator saying that each month, it is her pleasure exploring a treasure trove from Long Island artists and its vicinity to find the very best. Then organizing and arranging the work so that it invites the viewer to be conscious of the arrangements of the art and aware of the perceptual connections they provoke. Her intent is to provide and promote higher professional standards of art on Long Island while informing, inspiring and entertaining the public.
Deborah actively exhibits her paintings and is honored to be included in corporate and private collections.
Currently and for the last 16 years Deborah has been the curator at the Alfred Van Loen Gallery, SHPL Huntington Station, New York.
She also worked as Stan Brodsky’s assistant 2010-2013.
As an intuitive painter Deborah uses recall, feelings and music as stimulation. Her paintings are part observation and part imagination. Through the influence of her weekly walks her paintings become a symbolic synthesis of abstraction and reality, mirroring and reflecting nature. Flowing streams, trees, leaves and flowers are a dance of color and shapes stirring her imagination.
While working mostly in oils on canvas or paper, she also uses mixed mediums, as well as working with watercolor, gouache, oil pastels, and ink on paper. Her subjects and styles vary from loosely painted florals, wetlands and other nature influenced subjects to biomorphic abstractions.
During her early childhood years Deborah’s family lived on the grounds of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum. It was during those years, Deborah says that her passion and love of nature became rooted in her soul along with her passion for music, color, mark making, shapes and light. Her goal is to keep an ambiguity in her work while allowing the viewer his own interpretation, a kind of “visual music”. She works to achieve paintings that are a bit lyrical and poetic. Her process becomes more of a state of mind.
Deborah describes her work as a curator saying that each month, it is her pleasure exploring a treasure trove from Long Island artists and its vicinity to find the very best. Then organizing and arranging the work so that it invites the viewer to be conscious of the arrangements of the art and aware of the perceptual connections they provoke. Her intent is to provide and promote higher professional standards of art on Long Island while informing, inspiring and entertaining the public.
Deborah actively exhibits her paintings and is honored to be included in corporate and private collections.
Omni Gallery, Uniondale NY
