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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.
• Founding member, immediate past president, current
Board Chair
• Regional Editor "Fine Art Connoisseur" Magazine
2008 Calendar:
• Jan. 5 - Feb. 5 : The Collage of Women Artists Juried
Best of Show & Purchase Award -
Columbus, OH
• Feb. 20 - Lecture: Plein Air Painting, Eastern Ohio Art Guild
• April
7 - 22 - Painting in the Southwest of England
• May 15 - Lecture: Plein Air Painting, Gahanna Art Club, OH
• July 6 - Solo Exhibition: Sharon Weiss Gallery, Columbus
• July 15 - Lecture: Plein Air Painting, Madison Art Club, IN
Publications:
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:
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 second painting excursion to India and
Bhutan in early 2007. This past year, Debra’s work was included in
exhibitions at the National Arts Club in New York City, and in Vermont at
the Bennington Arts Center’s Artist’s Abroad Invitational Exhibition, in
the Peninsula Art School's Invitational Door County Plein Air Festival in
Fish Creek, Wisconsin, as well as upcoming participation in Cincinnati Art
Club’s ViewPoint 2007 and Ohio Landscapes at Ohio’s Springfield Museum.
Recent awards were received at the 5th Worldwide Paintout Competition,
Niagara Falls, Ontario, the 4th Ohio Plein Air Society Competition (OPAS),
and a Best of Show at the ‘07 OPAS Winter Juried Exhibition in Columbus,
OH. In recent years, she was also selected to paint in the national Plein
Air Easton! A juried competition held in Maryland, 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, Mark Hanson, OPA,
Frank LaLumia, 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 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 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, immediate past
president, and current Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Ohio Plein
Air Society.
Debra’s fourth solo exhibition at the Sharon Weiss Gallery in Columbus,
Ohio is scheduled for June 2008, and her work is included in a 3-person
exhibition which opened in October 2007 at the Marquette Galleries in
Cincinnati, OH. The G.C. Lucas Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana, 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
G.C. LUCAS GALLERY
4930 N. Pennsylvania,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46205 • 317.255.4000
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