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Deborah is a New Jersey native who now lives in southern Illinois with her sculptor husband, Carey Netherton, and their two cats. She lived in New York City in the mid-90's where she earned her MFA at Pratt Institute in Painting and was employed at the Guggenheim Museum as a guard and part of the installations team. She moved back to New Jersey to paint sculpture at the Johnson Atelier Institute of Sculpture, where she also learned to metal cast her own work. After her marriage in 2005, she lived briefly at the Jersey shore and has since turned her attention back to painting.

The imagery for Deborah’s work begins with her photographs of junkyards and landscapes, utilized as reference for her paintings in oil and gouache. The image becomes mutated by the application of paint in multiple thin, transparent layers, which creates an atmospheric effect. Her paintings and drawings are often combined with rusted metal to create an assemblage of multiple organic patterns. Deborah sees rust as a random pattern that is not only beautiful but also as a reflection of "the natural state of transformation of a man-made object that succumbs to nature’s process of decomposition".

Deborah is also a sculptor, who creates furniture from found objects or metal castings in bronze and aluminum. There are a series of small metal pieces on the utilitarian page of metal castings from found objects. She has created cast iron pans for cooking, bronze miniature tire boxes, and bronze bowls made from hubcaps. Inspired by her toy collection, she’s also created a series of bronze car toys that can be found on the car page.

If you are interested in Deborah’s work, please contact her at deb280@yahoo.com