Deborah Salomon

Deborah Salomon earned a BFA from the University of Rhode Island and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Philadelphia College of Art. 

 She has been an artist in residence at Millay Colony for the Arts, New York (April 2014) and she received a Dedalus Foundation full fellowship award at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (February 2010). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Santa Clara Medical Center, the Stanford Medical Center, the Imagery Estate Winery Collection, Neiman Marcus, Walnut Creek, California and CBRE at Salesforce Tower, S.F.

Artist's Statement

 French philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote about the power of the "presence of absence." This concept of not knowing describes the non-verbal, meditative arranging process I use to create quiet, private, intuitive, language-based imagery. My abstract, fragmented, painted collages begin with a variety of shapes cut from found printed matter. Their form is highly linear, geometric. I gather, arrange, and reconfigure, shifting written words into new contexts. I use found printed papers, type fragments, handwriting, shorthand, diagrams, and pages from ledgers and old discarded books. In these subtle mixed media works the creative process is spontaneous, unspoken, unconscious. My influences are many and include architecture, technical drawings, mineralogy, language texts, and alphabets.

-Deborah Salomon