Deborah Foutch
Studio 1720 Madison St  NE
Minneapolis MN 55413
612-730-4281

Artist Bio

            Deborah Foutch is an artist whose palette, sense of line, light, and space, is deeply informed by the landscape she grew up in.  A native Iowan, she was raised in a creative family that showed her how to look around and see the shape, color and texture of things and appreciate the beauty of nature’s chance combinations.  In art school she went from painter to quilt maker to mixed media fiber artist because the richness of combined materials came closest to the world she wanted to express.  After graduating with degrees in art and history she moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota to pursue her art career.

Deborah has shown her work nationally in galleries and festivals for the past 20 years. The discipline of the show deadlines, combined with the joy of playing with different materials keeps her work fresh and skills evolving. Her current work includes mixed media figures as well as fiber wall pieces. Both are executed with rich layered materials, techniques, and meaning.

Her landscapes are constructed by a combination of painting and quilting techniques with mixed media embellishments. Carved clays, both glazed and not, beading, found objects, deconstructed fabrics, and papers are added for their relationship to the piece under construction. Layered textural materials delight the eye and evoke feelings. Layers challenge the viewer to question what they see to look longer, deeper.

The rhythm of seasonal change, the flow of rivers, the roll of land, the grace of trees, and the abounding variety of light are recurring subjects ,awakened in childhood, expressed with skill from ongoing creative practice and by constantly observing and responding to nature.
For more information contact her through her website form
Studio visits and commissions are welcomed by the artist. 

Education
BA degree in both Art and History, University Of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls IA -1977

Shows and Exhibitions; recent and selected
Art-A-Whirl Cach; Minneapolis, MN -2008
State of Mind Color Wheel Gallery; Minneapolis MN-2008
Open Casket  Casket Arts Studio Building; Minneapolis MN- 2007
Creation Stories  The Yellow Door Gallery; Crystal MN (solo show)- 2003
People & Poems  Uptown Art; Minneapolis MN (solo show) -2003
The Dollhouse Project   Urban Dollmakers Show, Black Dog Coffee House; St Paul MN  (curator and exhibitor) -2002
Paper Doll Show  Urban Dollmakers Show, MaydayCafe;  Minneapolis MN  (curator and exhibitor; catalog) -2001
Annual Fine Crafts Show  Art Resources Gallery; Minneapolis / St Paul MN  (invitational) -2000, 2001
Contemporary Art Doll  Gallery 5; Tequesta FL (invitational)-1999
A Place To Be  Uptown Art; Minneapolis MN (solo show) - 1998
Mood Swings-A Doll Show  Bloomington Art Center; Bloomington MN (group show)  - 1997
Mirrors, Maps, and Metaphors  Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at the College of St Catherine; St Paul MN (group show) -1996
Figurative Sculpture: The Doll Show  Mindscape Gallery; Evanston IL (juried invitational) -1994
Ritual Play, Divine Muse: Dolls by Artists  Paul Whitney Larson Gallery; St Paul MN  (juried invitational) - 1994

Art Fair Experience;  recent and selected
American Craft Council Show;  St Paul MN 1996, 1998, 2006,2008
Art Fair On The Square;  Madison WI   2002, 2003, 2006
Minnesota Crafts Festival; St Paul MN   Purchase Award 2005       2001, 2004-2006
Powderhorn Art Fair; Minneapolis MN HM 1995, 3rd Place 1998, Best Mixed Media 2000  1993-1996,1998-2008
State Street Art Fair; Ann Arbor MI 2006
Art In The Park /Common Ground Sanctuary;  Birmingham MI  2004
Fountain Square Art Festival; Evanston IL 2002,2003
Urban Trails Art Festival; Asheville NC 2003
Sun Valley Arts and Crafts Festival; Sun Valley ID Purchase Award   2002
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair;  Ann Arbor MI   2000
Southwest Arts Festival; Albuquerque NM  Purchase Award 1999
Uptown Art Fair; Minneapolis MN  1997

Gallery Representation– partial list
Art Resources Gallery; Edina MN
Grand Hand; St Paul MN
Clay and Fiber Gallery;  Taos NM
Eclectic Collector;  Katonah NY
Finewares (now American Crafts); Tacoma Park MD
Grovewood Gallery;  Asheville NC