After having worked in the World Trade Center for 16 years as a computer programmer, construction auditor, and publication editor, 9/11 changed Debbie’s life, permanently. As a direct result of that day she and her husband, Lee moved to Ohio and built new lives here. Having left the corporate world behind, Debbie now works as a full-time/self taught artist.
Her award-wining work has been accepted into numerous juried shows, most recently by Paula Tognarelli, Curator – Griffin Museum of photography (Winchester, MA), David Pagel, art critic for the LA Times, and Nannette Macijunes, Director, Columbus Museum of Art. Debbie’s work is in private and corporate collections across the country and around the globe.
Debbie works with digital photography and is constantly pushing this ever- changing technology to its maximum potential. She uses software in lieu of burning and dodging in the darkroom. She has fully embraced the powers that this new technology offers; and generally uses them with restraint. However, she has now created new work where she has freed herself from reality and has used digital techniques to create imagined vistas in her electronic paintings, which begin life as a white page.
In her photographic work, she decodes the visual information that surrounds us and often goes unnoticed. She isolates color, pattern, light, shadow, and texture to capture a 2-dimensional composite that communicates her experience to the viewer.