{"id":1283,"date":"2018-04-03T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T22:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2019-12-24T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:28:06","slug":"deborah-faye-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/deborah-faye-lawrence","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Faye Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEighty Words<\/em>
\n41.25″x34.5″; paper and fabric collage, acrylic, varnish on canvas; 2014
\nTriumphant, stalwart figures stand in opposition to the eighty words that mean “bad woman”.<\/p>\n

Deborah Faye Lawrence
\nSeattle, Washington, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

I make artworks which comment on North American life and current events in ways that are serious and sardonic. I employ cut and paste as a meditation, to focus my mind on something manageable, as I try to find beauty in the scraps that cross my table. This contemplative practice may be preventing my personal dissolution into neurotic, phobic, narcissistic paranoia. What else can one do, when one\u2019s compulsion to decorate is accompanied by an abject horror of the status quo?<\/p>\n

In the studio, as I wrestle with magazine cut-outs, fabric and adhesive, I habitually resort to ransom-note lettering in an effort to answer questions like \u201cWhat makes all those power-mongering empire builders so #!!!%@& diabolical?\u201d If my sense of humour prevails, the pieces of paper become better organized, and my own bilious misanthropy is reconciled with a little optimism about the human race. Some people call this exercise “satire”. I call it Sanity Management. It has helped me since 1976, when I began to take art, history and politics seriously. With time\u2019s passage, as the situation on earth has become more and more severe, I\u2019ve developed an appreciation of didactic art, i.e., art which educates and explains instead of mystifying the viewer. As an educator and artist, it\u2019s my job to make art that is meaningful and beautiful.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deborah Faye Lawrence\u2019s satirical mixed-media artworks have been published, exhibited and collected internationally. She has received funding and awards from The Creative Capital Foundation, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation, Artist Trust\/Washington State Arts Council, WESTAF NEA, and Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture, among others. Her full-colour, hardcover artist\u2019s monograph, Dee Dee Does Utopia<\/em>, was published in 2008 by Marquand Books, Inc. Deborah is former art faculty at Seattle University and Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She conducts collage workshops in Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland and other settings. A native of California, Lawrence earned a MFA degree from Claremont Graduate University, and has lived with her husband in Seattle since 1993. In 2017, she was awarded Seattle Art Museum\u2019s Betty Bowen Honorable Mention Award, and in 2015 she was granted the Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Creative Excellence in Visual Art from Artist Trust.<\/p>\n

Lawrence\u2019s artwork has been featured in Susan N. Platt\u2019s book, Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis<\/em> (Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 2010), and reviewed in Art in America<\/em>, ArtWeek<\/em>, Art Papers Magazine<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, The Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Rolling Stone<\/em>, Time Magazine<\/em>, West Coast Art + Design<\/em>, L.A. Weekly<\/em>, Freedom Socialist Bulletin<\/em>, The Stranger<\/em>, Sculpture Magazine<\/em>, The Seattle Weekly<\/em>, The Seattle Times<\/em>, and Seattle Magazine<\/em>, among many others.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

[click to email<\/a>]
\nwww.deedeeworks.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nTargeting the American Dream<\/em>
\n33.5″x37″; fabric and paper collage, archival varnish on canvas; 2011<\/p>\n

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\nNRA Sweepstakes<\/em>
\n31.5″x31″; fabric, paper, acrylic collage on canvas; 2016<\/p>\n

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\nOpen Carry<\/em>
\n40.75″x34.75″; fabric, paper, acrylic collage on canvas; 2016<\/p>\n

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\nCome Home, America<\/em>
\n32.25″x39″; fabric and paper collage, archival varnish on canvas; 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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