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" . . . painting the looser side of realism "
• Founding member, trustee, past president
& past
Board Chair
• Regional Editor "Fine Art Connoisseur" Magazine
• Permanent Collections : Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Supreme Court,
Ohio Historical Society, Central Ohio Diabetes Association,
Open Heart Recovery Unit, University Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Private collections: around the USA, England, France and New Zealand
and Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Debra Joyce Dawson paints colorful,
evocative outdoor landscapes. She travels extensively, and her paintings
can serve as a painterly travelogue to India, Bhutan, England, Ireland, as
well as to her more local surroundings. Her medium of choice is oil, with
preparatory sketches in graphite, charcoal, pen or watercolor. Some works
are small and completed en plein air; other works are larger and more
complex renderings done in her studio. Her energy and delight in color,
light, and shape are dazzling. But she never surrenders her subject, and
each building, boat, hillside, or human figure is carefully pinned to the
picture plane in the context of its surroundings. This places her in the
best context of American Impressionism, whether one considers John Singer Sargent or Ohio’s own Alice Schille or Edward Henry Potthast."
Susan Talbot-Stanoway, Director Zanesville Museum of Art
You're Invited!

2010 Calendar:
• January
24 - April 4 : "Encountering India
and Bhutan"
Richmond Art Museum, Indiana
2-Person Exhibition with Ray Hassard opens Jan. 24, 2:00 -
4:00 PM
•
February 19 : Lecture with Ray Hassard, Cincinnati Art Club
• March 5
-7 : Art at the Arnold, Columbus, OH

Debra won the top prize at this event!
Click on thumbnail to enlarge.
"Ballroom
Dancing to the Matrix"
16" x 20", Oil on Canvas
•
April 24 : "Vernissage",
Alliance Francaise of Columbus, OH
•
June 22 -
July 13 : Painting in England
• August
: 5th Solo Exhibition,
Sharon Weiss Gallery
2010
Workshop :
• May 8 & 9: 2-Day Plein Air Workshop, Sponsored by Sunbear
Studios
Email :
debra@ohiopleinairsociety.com to reserve a space
Art Classes - 740.927.3078
• Plein air
• Mentoring classes
• Drawing and studio oil painting at my home studio
Publications:
American Art Collector, May 2009
Contemporary American Realism: 2008 - Exhibition catalog
www.createbetterpaintings.com - an online artzine
"Artist to Artist: interview
with Michael McEwan", March 2008
Tashi
Delek Magazine, Druk Air's in-flight magazine
2007 July - September
issue - pages 38 - 44
http://www.tashidelek.in/pdfs/july07.pdf
American
Artist Magazine feature article titled:
“Painting En Plein Air in South India,” January 2006
TimeLine Magazine,
back cover, March 2005
Plein Air Magazine,
January 2005
The Land We Call Ohio,
full-color book 2003
Artist Bio & Galleries Below.
Personal Website:
www.debrajoycedawson.com
Blog :
http://prismatic-palette.blogspot.com/
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Recent
Archives & Biography:
2009 :
• May 1 -
31 : Oil Painters of America National
Juried Exhibition
4th acceptance into this prestigious exhibition - View my painting on my personal site or blog
• May
16th - July 3 : Solo Exhibition, Zanesville Art Museum
Talk and demo June 6th 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
•
June : Plein
Air Workshop for Cincinnati Art Club
•
July 2 :
Slide Lecture: Columbus Museum of Art - Noon - 1:00 PM
•
July 19 : Door
County Invitational Plein Air Festival - returning artist
•
September 9 - October 28 : painting in India, and painting workshop for
Adobe in Delhi, India
•
September 10 & 18 :
"Remembering Russell
Exhibition",
Columbus
Museum of Art
Purchase Award for Columbus Museum of Art Permanent
Collection.
2008:
•
OPAS Annual Members
Exhibition, Zanesville Art Museum: 2nd Place & HM
• "OPAS Juried" Schumacher Gallery, Bexley, OH:
2nd Place
• "ViewPoint 2008", Cincinnati Art Club
• OPAS 5th Annual Plein Air Competition
Judge, Marc Hanson: 2nd Place
& Artists Choice Award
• "Contemporary American Realism: 2008",
Ft. Wayne Museum of Art,
IN
• Solo Exhibition: Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus
• The Collage of Women Artists Juried, Lyle Gallery, Columbus, OH
Best of Show & Purchase Award
2008 Demos & Lectures:
• Plein
Air Lecture, Zanesville Art Museum
• Plein Air Demo, Canal Winchester, OH
• Painting Demo, Retired Teacher's Association, Columbus,
OH
• Lecture: Plein Air Painting, Madison Art Club, IN
• Plein Air Demo, Columbus, OH
• Lecture: Plein Air Painting, Gahanna Art Club, OH
• Lecture: Plein Air Painting, Eastern Ohio Art Guild
2007
• OPAS Curated Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art
• "Viewpoint 2007" National Juried, Cincinnati Art
Galleries Award
Cincinnati Art
Club's Wessel Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
• "Talent in Triplicate", Marquette Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
• "4th Annual OPAS Plein Air Competition" - Honorable
Mention
• IPAP "5th Worldwide Plein Air Competition",
Niagara Falls, Ontario
2nd Place & Honorable Mention
in the Quick Draw
• "Artist's Abroad", Bennington Center for the Arts,
Vermont
http://www.benningtoncenterforthearts.org/art/aaa-2.html
• Invitational "Door County Plein Air Festival 2007", Fish Creek, Wisconsin
• Hudson Valley Art
Association Annual Open Exhibition
National Arts Club, New York, NY
• Solo Exhibition, Sharon Weiss Gallery
• February - March 2007 : Painting in India and Bhutan
• OPAS Winter Juried Exhibition - Best of Show
• Spring Art Walk, Granville, OH - Honorable
Mention
• June 2007 : Solo Exhibition, Sharon Weiss Gallery,
Columbus, OH
2006
• '04, '05, '06 : Oil Painters of America National Exhibition
• September 2006 : Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition
Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA
• September 2006 : Purchase Award, OPAS Plein Air Competition
• July- Sept. 2006 : Invitational "Asia: Cultural Memory"
Upper Arlington Municipal
Center, Upper Arlington, OH
• July 2006 : "Plein Air Easton!" National Juried Competition,
Maryland
• June - July 2006 : Painting the Poitou-Charente & Charente-Maritime
regions
of France; September painting in the Alsace region
• June 2006 : Solo Exhibition, Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus, OH
2003 - 05
• 2005 : OPAS Plein Air Competition - Award of Excellence in Oils:
Judge, Jennifer King, editor
• 2005 : WOSU TV’s November ArtZine
• '04, '05 : "Impressionists at the Conservatory", Invitational Paintout
and Exhibition
• 2004 : Artist-in-Residence, Hiawatha National Forest
• 2003 : The Paint Ohio Project
Artist Biography:
Energetic, exciting and colorful are all words that immediately come to
mind when you first see Debra Joyce Dawson’s oil paintings. From her
landscapes painted on location to her figurative works created in the
studio, Debra’s artwork always conveys her passion for the mood and
atmosphere she finds in her subjects.
Constantly challenging herself to keep her work fresh with new subject
matter, Debra frequently travels the world in search of a heart-stopping
moment of light on the land or an arresting face or costume. Having
already painted extensively in Europe, Asia, Puerto Rico, and throughout
North America, she has completed a third painting excursion to India and
Bhutan in early 2007. In the past two years, Debra's work has been
exhibited widely in several national shows including, “Contemporary
American Realism: 2008” at the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, “Viewpoint 2008”
at the Wessel Gallery in Cincinnati, and in May 2009 at the “18th Oil
Painters of America National Juried Exhibition,” in Santa Fé. Regionally,
in June, Debra's work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Zanesville
Museum of Art, and in July, Debra was a returning artist at the Door
County Plein Air Festival, Fish Creek, WI. Spring of 2009, Debra's
teaching credits include a painting workshop in Dehli, India for the
employees at Adobe who work on the Illustrator Program. In recent years, she was also selected to paint in the national Plein
Air Easton! and in the Door Country Plein Air Festival. Debra has served as
Artist-in-Residence for Michigan’s Hiawatha National Forest, and was one
of six central Ohio artists who worked on the 2003 Bicentennial Paint Ohio
Project.
Painting since “Santa” brought her
that first set of oil paints in 5th grade, Debra pursued formal art
training in Maryland and New Jersey. Marriage brought her from her home
state of Maryland to Ohio, where she returned to the study of art at
Capital University, Denison University, and at the Columbus College of Art
and Design. Today she continues her education by taking workshops with
many plein air masters, such as Ken Cadwallader, OPA; Michael Dudash, OPA;
Mark Hanson, OPA;
Frank LaLumia, PAPA, OPA; Ken Auster, and Carolyn Anderson.
Debra’s dedication to excellence in art has resulted in numerous awards
and accolades. Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of
the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio Historical Society, Central Ohio Diabetes
Association, Hiawatha National Forest, Munising, MI, Westerville Public
Library and University Hospital, Baltimore, MD; in private collections
around the U.S., the Caribbean, Canada, England and New Zealand; and have
been reproduced as limited-edition prints, calendars, and greeting cards
and in such publications as American Art Collector Magazine, American Artist Magazine, Tashi Delek
Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, and a book titled The Land We Call Ohio,
among others. For the past three years, Debra’s work has also been
selected for inclusion in the prestigious Oil Painters of America’s
national and regional exhibitions. A believer in giving back to the
community of artists, Debra is a founding member, past
president, and current Trustee of The Ohio Plein
Air Society.
Debra’s fifth solo exhibition at the Sharon Weiss Gallery in Columbus,
Ohio opens June 2010. The Pierre-Paul Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan also
represents her work.
Galleries:
THE
SHARON WEISS GALLERY
20 E.
Lincoln Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 • 614.291.5683
Hours: Thursday, Noon - 4:00 PM; Friday & Saturday, Noon - 5:00 PM;
Sunday, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
www.sharonweissgallery.com
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