Deborah Salomon

 

Deborah Salomon earned a BFA from the University of Rhode Island and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Philadelphia College of Art. She is a member of the California Society of Printmakers.

 

Her work is represented by Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco;

SFMOMA Artist Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco; Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York; and Kala Art Institute Sales Gallery, Berkeley, among others. She has been an artist in residence at Millay Colony for the Arts, New York (April 2014) and she received a Dedalus Foundation full fellowship award at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (February 2010). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Santa Clara Medical Center, the Stanford Medical Center, the Imagery Estate Winery Collection, and Neiman Marcus, Walnut Creek, California. 

 

Recent Exhibitions: 

  

2015     “Axis Gallery 2015 Invitational Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento

             “Summer National Juried Exhibition”, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA

             “10th National Juried Exhibition”, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

 

2013     “Collage Centennial”, Menlo College, Menlo Park, CA
              “The Gardener”, Berkeley, CA

2012     “The Altered Book Arts Show”, Marin MOCA, Novato Arts Center,                  Novato, CA          
             “Group Winter Show”, Matanzas Creek Winery, Santa Rosa, CA
             “Left to Chance” Excor Show, San Francisco Center for the Book,                  San Francisco, CA

 

 

Artist's Statement

 

French philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote about the power of the

"presence of absence." This concept of not knowing describes the non-verbal, meditative arranging process I use to create quiet, private, intuitive, language-based imagery. My abstract, fragmented, painted collages begin with a variety of shapes cut from found printed matter. Their form is highly linear, geometric. I gather, arrange, and reconfigure, shifting written words into new contexts. I use found printed papers, type fragments, handwriting, shorthand, diagrams, and pages from ledgers and old discarded books. In these subtle mixed media works the creative process is spontaneous, unspoken, unconscious. My influences are many and include architecture, technical drawings, mineralogy, language texts, and alphabets.