About
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 oil pastel drawings, mixed media figures, fiber and mixed media wall pieces. All are executed with rich layers of 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
Featured artist : April 2011, The Grand Hand Gallery St Paul MN 2011
Flow Homewood Studios, Minneapolis MN 2011
Hudson Hospital Exhibition Program, Hudson WI 2010
Cranes and Pools Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson WI 2010
Rivers And Cranes 3rd Floor Gallery @ The Carriage House, Minneapolis MN 2010
Fall Fine Arts Show NEMAA @ the Grainbelt Complex, Minneapolis MN 2010
CACHE Casket Arts Complex, Minneapolis MN 2010
Owatonna Hospital Exhibition Program, Owatonna MN 3 pieces added to their collection 2009/10
Art-A-Whirl Cach; Minneapolis, MN -2009
Healing Arts The Institute For Health And Healing, Minneapolis MN (solo show) 2009
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
St Paul American Craft Council Show St Paul Mn 2011
Philadelphia Museum Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia PA 2010
American Craft Council San Francisco, San Francisco CA 2010
Cherry Creek Art Fair, Denver CO 2010
American Craft Council St Paul, St Paul MN 2010
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
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
Collections- partial list
Brainerd Medical Clinic, Brainerd MN 2012
Long Island Jewish Medical Center Long Island New York 2012
Health Partners Riverside Clinic, Minneapolis MN 2011
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Kidney Stone Institute, St Paul MN 2010
The University of Minnesota Medical Center,Specialty & Infusion Center, Minneapolis MN 2010
(UMMC) Fairview Riverside Campus, Adult Behavioral Health Unit Minneapolis MN 2010
The Hudson Hospital, Hudson WI 2010
Owatonna Hospital in Owatonna MN 2009
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Oncology, Minneapolis MN 2009
Oak Grove Residence, Minneapolis MN 2008
Teaching
Artist’s Way Experiential @ The Carriage House, Minneapolis MN
Artist Way Practical @ the Carriage House, Minneapolis MN
Surface Design: Water from Fabric @ The Carriage House, Minneapolis MN
