Deborah Ashley
Deborah Ashley is an abstract nature and still life painter living in Northern California. Deborah is originally from North Carolina and always found inspiration for her paintings in the tree-filled southern landscapes. Her confident, colorful landscape abstractions often use the palette knife to create thick texture to compliment the vibrant colors. Her still-life paintings are abstracted and fanciful, incorporating a variety of materials including graphite, pastels and collage as she lets each composition unfold as it goes. This playful and joyful quality is the hallmark of her still-life abstractions.
Deborah was interested in the arts from a very young age and began studying the piano at age five and the violin at age seven. She also had a love of the visual arts and pursued drawing, painting, printmaking throughout her school years. Her work is colorful and full of energy and pulls from her musical roots seen in her use of lines and shapes that flow throughout her paintings. The exuberance of Ashley’s paintings is defined by the interplay of colors, shapes and textures that often seem to explode off the canvas and make her work highly expressive and uniquely her own.
Deborah finished her first degree in Violin Performance and her second degree in Fine Art.
Selected Exhibitions
2021 November-December Selected Exhibition, Studio Gallery San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2021 May Selected Exhibition, Studio Gallery San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2021 June Selected Exhibition, SHOH Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2020 April Selected Virtual Exhibition, SHOH Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2019 November Selected Exhibition, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Summer Selected Exhibition, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 July Selected Exhibition, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 July-Oct Selected Exhibition, Slate Art Gallery/San Ramon Conference Center, San Ramon CA
2017 November Selected Group Exhibition, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 August Selected Group Exhibition, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Selected Group Exhibition, Tim Collom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2016 Summer Exhibition, Deborah Ashley & Justin Baldwin, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2016 Selected Group exhibition, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Selected Group Exhibition, Tim Collom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2016 Group Exhibition, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2016 Group Exhibition, Collector Art Shop, Oakland CA
2016 Solo Exhibition, Chows, Danville, CA
2015 Group Exhibition, Collector Art Shop, Berkeley, CA
2015 Group Exhibition, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2014 Juried Exhibition, “Visions of the Wild” Vallejo, CA
2014 Solo Exhibition Kanishka’s, Walnut Creek, CA
2014 Group Exhibition Chow’s, Lafayette CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Klein Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Moraga Country Club, Moraga, CA
2013 Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA
2013 Group Exhibition, Iron Horse Home Furnishings, Benicia, CA
2010 Group Exhibition, Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2010 Solo Exhibition, Sherman Clay Studio, Walnut Creek, CA
2009 Group Exhibition, Nourot Art Glass, Benicia, CA
2009 Solo Exhibition, Sonoma Bank, Walnut Creek, CA
2008 Juried Exhibition, Raleigh, NC
2007 Group Exhibition, Jordan Hall Art, Cary, NC
2004 Group Exhibition, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
Public Art
2008 Concord Stock, Concord, CA
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