My paintings address issues of gender definition, self- identification and female objectification using stylized figuration and saturated high-key color. I emphasize and exaggerate stereotypical concepts of precision, perfection and beauty in femininity. My females are both representations of self as well as faceless archetypes, eliciting questions about identity, self-awareness and sentiment. I explore codes of femininity while also addressing issues of willingness and consent. I often insert my subjects into situations where self-control and self-awareness are requisites. My work can best be described as belonging to the “New Surrealist Movement,” using a stylization of form, pattern and color. The border frames that I paint onto the canvas serve as both an additional element of pattern and a transitional bridge from canvas to wall, easing the visual abruptness of the change in surface.
2025
Solo Show
Forthcoming: Solo Show Nino Mier Gallery, NY.
Group Shows
Forthcoming: Anna Zorina Gallery, NY.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, P.A.A.M 2024 Grant Recipients, Provincetown, Mass.
2024
Solo Show
BODIES: Ray Yoshida, Christina Ramberg, Deborah Druick , David Nolan Gallery, New York ,NY.
Group Show
Untitled Miami, Nino Mier Gallery, Miami, Fl.
The Armory Show 2024, Nino Mier Gallery, NY.
Press
Artnet 2024
6 Must- see Summer Shows on New York’s Gallery-Rich Upper East Side
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/upper-east-side-gallery-summer-shows-2508389
Whitehot Magazine August 2024
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/druick-at-david-nolan-gallery/6508
Artist Talk ArtTable
Deborah Druick in Conversation withSasha Phyars-Burgess, Presented by ArtTable and moderated by Julie Baumgardner
Grants 2024
PAAM 2024 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant Recipient
2023
Group Shows
Art Basel Miami 2023, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY.
Dallas Art Fair, David Nolan Gallery, NY.
2022
Solo Show
Parlor Games, Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY.
Group Shows 2022
Artsin Square #1 Online Exhibition, London, UK.
Publications 2022
Artmaze Magazine, Issue 26, curated by Sophie Sofer and Brook Wilson of the Fores Project, London, UK.
Moosey Editions London, Periscope, limited screen print edition, London, UK.
New American Paintings Northeast Issue, curated by Bill Powers, Half Gallery, NY.
2021
Group Shows
Painting 2011-2021, Site: Brooklyn, NY, curated by Peter Frank
Lines & Other Forms, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn,NY.
People Places Things, curated by Samantha Rippner, Project Gallery V, NY.
Formation: Bodies in Contemporary Art, curated by Shlomi Rabi, Greenhouse Auctions, NY.
Publications
Elephant Magazine, Are We There Yet?, Louise Benson, Deputy Editor Elephant Magazine, London, U.K.
Artmaze Magazine Winter Issue #21 Cassie Biddle, curator, and Victoria Williams, Director Cob Gallery, London
Grants
NY City Artist Corps Grant 2021
Interviews
Studio Visit Artist, I Like Your Work Podcast, September 2021.
Artist Interview Visionary Art Collective January 2021
2020
Publications
New American Paintings Northwest Competition Winner Issue 146 curated by Jerry Saltz
Residencies
Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant Recipient 2020
Studio Tour Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2019
Group Shows
Red, Yellow, Blue Exhibition, Van Der Plas Gallery, Lower East Side, NY.
Unseen, curated by Akili Tommasino, at Collar Works, Troy, NY
Velvet Ropes NYC at Shrine NYC, NY.
Saturated: An Eye for Color, curated by Michael Rooks, at The Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Pulse Miami, Vellum Projects, Miami Beach, FL.
Art Market Hamptons 2019, The Bridgehampton Museum.
Publications
Vellum Magazine No. 22 edited by Stephanie Young.
Awards
Awarded Jurors Second Place Prize, Saturated: An Eye for Color, curated by Michael Rooks, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.
2018
Group Shows
Clio Art Fair, March 8-11,2018, 335 West 35th. Street, NY.
Signal, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY.
2017
Group Shows
Saatchi The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center.
Clio Art Fair, New York, NY.
28th International Juried Exhibition,The Viridian Gallery, NY.
Riverarts Open Studio, Westchester, NY.
The Figure: Interpreted Through Contemporary Mediums,Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Clio Art Fair 2017, New York, NY
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2016
Group Shows
Really, Really Affordable Art Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition, Brooklyn, NY.
Fun House, Art of the Surreal, Fantastic and Bizarre, Poughkeepsie, NY.
27th International Juried Exhibition,Viridian Gallery, New York, NY.
Color, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY.
Putting it All Together, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY.
Mixmaster Group Show, Mattatuck Museum, CT.
2015
Group Shows
Open Orange 2015,Valleyarts Firehouse Gallery, NJ.
2014
Group Shows
Select Art Fair Miami 2014, Miami,FL.
New Directions '14 National Contemporary Art Exhibition, The Barrett Art Center,Poughkeepsie,NY.
N.A.W.A 125th Anniversary Members' Exhibition, New York, NY.
Media Coverage
Part of Widewalls coverage of Select Art Fair Miami
Covered by Bedford and Bowery's write-up of Select Air Fair Miami
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