Artist's Statement

The things I make— collage, assemblage, mixed media— are hybrids, internally diverse and externally beholden to a broad range of influences, from African masks to Renaissance Madonnas to the Merzbau of modernist Kurt Schwitters. Story-like, the pieces are narrative, but broken into fragments; their subjects, often women, recognizable but not exactly real. I wish to make something which invites many levels of interpretation, rather than dictating a single idea. In my pieces, backgrounds are often ambiguous (heavily patterned, black or abstract), suspending the image in a visual limbo, precluding fixed meaning and urging the viewer’s interpretation. In this sense, the work is incomplete, purposely so, propelled outward as is, into the unknown.
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Awards and Honors

2014
Winner, Courting Art, Montgomery County Community College, Ambler, PA

2012
Tuition award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

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Publications

2014
Miller, PhD, Debra, “Envisioning Shakespeare at 450,” published by Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2019
Lyons, Daralyse, "Philadelphia's Magic Gardens Presents Visionary Voices," Broad Street Review, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Exhibitions

Solo‍

2015
Under The Skin, InLiquid @ 222, Philadelphia, PA
Syringa Tree, Theater Horizon Gallery, Norristown, PA

2013 - 2014
Tango, Ringpfeil Gallery, Haverford, PA

2011
One Part Paradise, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group‍

2023
Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition 20th Anniversary Retrospective, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

2022
Media Arts Council Annual Juried Show, Media, PA

2019-2020
Visionary Voices, Magic Garden Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Stilled Life, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Four Artists, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Constructing A Body, The InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, InLiquid at The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2017
Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA
Sixth Annual Germantown Show, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art from the Heart: Hurricane Relief Fundraiser, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

2016
Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia,PA
Naked In New Hope, Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA
Second Language, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
A Man's World, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ

2014
Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Courting Art, Montgomery County Community College, Ambler, PA
Annual Juried Show, SPP Galleries, Conshohocken, PA

2013
Envisioning Othello, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Annual Group Show, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Annual Juried Show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Professional Artists’ Show, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

2012
Annual Group Show, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Mascara, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Members Show, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

2010
Anniversary Show, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational Exhibition, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary Voices, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational Exhibit, Fleisher Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Collaborative 22, Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibit, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Julian Robson, Curator