Deborah Lawrence Schafer’s artwork conveys an ethereal quality. Her primary interest is in the capacity for weather and environmental conditions to transform landscape and its relationship to time–– and how this reflects life’s transience. Mainly, she draws inspiration from the ever-changing land and sea of the Bay Area, coastal Maine, and coastal Mexico. Her new work in botanicals explores human’s relationship to the natural word. And her early kinetic sculptures, discrete technological systems that presented classical elements, were also concerned with the ephemeral and nature.
Born in 1970 in San Antonio, Texas, Deborah Schafer has a BA in Visual Arts from Princeton University, worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She also curated exhibitions of Latino and Latin American artwork at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in Sonoma, California, and El Museo del Barrio, in New York City. After more than a decade, she left her career in the arts in 2005 around the time when her son and parents met untimely deaths. These events solidified her interest in the ethereal, but broadened her interest to include biotechnology. Thereafter, she began helping a doctor-inventor bring new medical devices to market and eventually began painting once again. She is a Mexican National and U.S. citizen and currently lives and works in the Bay Area and coastal Maine.
Her work is included in numerous private collections.
Born in 1970 in San Antonio, Texas, Deborah Schafer has a BA in Visual Arts from Princeton University, worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She also curated exhibitions of Latino and Latin American artwork at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in Sonoma, California, and El Museo del Barrio, in New York City. After more than a decade, she left her career in the arts in 2005 around the time when her son and parents met untimely deaths. These events solidified her interest in the ethereal, but broadened her interest to include biotechnology. Thereafter, she began helping a doctor-inventor bring new medical devices to market and eventually began painting once again. She is a Mexican National and U.S. citizen and currently lives and works in the Bay Area and coastal Maine.
Her work is included in numerous private collections.
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EDUCATION
Princeton University, A.B. June 1992. Department of Art and Archeology, Visual Arts Program.
Awarded the F. LeMoyne Page Thesis Prize in Visual Art for water and fire sculptures.
EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Group exhibition, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor Maine,
July 23-August 5, 2020
Residencias R.A.R.O. Madrid, Spain, February and March 2020 with presentation at Quinta del Sordo, Madrid, March 25, 2020
Art Market San Francisco, Studio Shop Gallery, Booth 207, Fort Mason, San Francisco, April 25-28, 2019
Tahoe Gallery, Prim Library, Sierra Nevada College,
Colors of Lake Tahoe by Deborah Lawrence Schafer in collaboration with the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Incline Village, Nevada, February 14-March 22, 2019
Artist talk, Prim Library, Sierra Nevada College, March 14, 2019
NEW GROWTH, PALETTE, San Francisco,
October 27, 2018-December 2, 2018
and March 4-April1, 2019
Group exhibition, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor Maine,
July 19-August 1, 2018
Group exhibition, A.Space, Menlo Park, California,
February 1-March 10, 2018
Pacific Art League, Science, Technology and the Future of Art, Palo Alto, California, August 4-24th, 2017
Guest Artist
Group exhibition, Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor Maine, August 2017
Private sale event, Menlo Park, California, May 18, 2017
Stanford Red Barn auction. May 2017
505 Montgomery Street, Deborah Lawrence Schafer, San Francisco, California, Spring 2017
Art Program lobby exhibition by Artsource Consulting
Pacific Art League, Science, Technology and the Future of Art, Palo Alto, California, June 3-23, 2016
First Place, juried by David Evan Harris of the Institute for the Future (IFTF)
Artists Talks, presentation about Colors of Lake Tahoe series, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, June 3, 2016
Pacific Art League, Landscape, Seascape, Urbanscape, Palo Alto, California, October 2-29, 2015
Pacific Art League, Members' Exhibition, Palo Alto, California, July 3-30, 2015
California College of Arts, Dis-Ease: Medical Imagery and Contemporary Looking, MFA class, Visual Criticism Department, presentation about artwork and infectious diseases, San Francisco, California, March 9, 2006
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Solo Mujeres–Corazonada: Quinceañera/Fifteen Years of Women’s Work, San Francisco, California, February 14- March 21, 2003
Lucas Gallery, Princeton University, Water and fire sculptures by Deborah Lawrence, Princeton, New Jersey, May 1992
Program in the Study of Women and Gender Department Office, Princeton University, Solo photography exhibition: Is Any Place Truly Natural?, Princeton, New Jersey, Spring 1991
Visual Arts Gallery, The Hockaday School, Watercolor paintings by Deborah Lawrence and Brandy Bowen, Dallas, Texas, Spring 1987
EDUCATION
Princeton University, A.B. June 1992. Department of Art and Archeology, Visual Arts Program.
Awarded the F. LeMoyne Page Thesis Prize in Visual Art for water and fire sculptures.
EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Group exhibition, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor Maine,
July 23-August 5, 2020
Residencias R.A.R.O. Madrid, Spain, February and March 2020 with presentation at Quinta del Sordo, Madrid, March 25, 2020
Art Market San Francisco, Studio Shop Gallery, Booth 207, Fort Mason, San Francisco, April 25-28, 2019
Tahoe Gallery, Prim Library, Sierra Nevada College,
Colors of Lake Tahoe by Deborah Lawrence Schafer in collaboration with the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Incline Village, Nevada, February 14-March 22, 2019
Artist talk, Prim Library, Sierra Nevada College, March 14, 2019
NEW GROWTH, PALETTE, San Francisco,
October 27, 2018-December 2, 2018
and March 4-April1, 2019
Group exhibition, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor Maine,
July 19-August 1, 2018
Group exhibition, A.Space, Menlo Park, California,
February 1-March 10, 2018
Pacific Art League, Science, Technology and the Future of Art, Palo Alto, California, August 4-24th, 2017
Guest Artist
Group exhibition, Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor Maine, August 2017
Private sale event, Menlo Park, California, May 18, 2017
Stanford Red Barn auction. May 2017
505 Montgomery Street, Deborah Lawrence Schafer, San Francisco, California, Spring 2017
Art Program lobby exhibition by Artsource Consulting
Pacific Art League, Science, Technology and the Future of Art, Palo Alto, California, June 3-23, 2016
First Place, juried by David Evan Harris of the Institute for the Future (IFTF)
Artists Talks, presentation about Colors of Lake Tahoe series, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, June 3, 2016
Pacific Art League, Landscape, Seascape, Urbanscape, Palo Alto, California, October 2-29, 2015
Pacific Art League, Members' Exhibition, Palo Alto, California, July 3-30, 2015
California College of Arts, Dis-Ease: Medical Imagery and Contemporary Looking, MFA class, Visual Criticism Department, presentation about artwork and infectious diseases, San Francisco, California, March 9, 2006
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Solo Mujeres–Corazonada: Quinceañera/Fifteen Years of Women’s Work, San Francisco, California, February 14- March 21, 2003
Lucas Gallery, Princeton University, Water and fire sculptures by Deborah Lawrence, Princeton, New Jersey, May 1992
Program in the Study of Women and Gender Department Office, Princeton University, Solo photography exhibition: Is Any Place Truly Natural?, Princeton, New Jersey, Spring 1991
Visual Arts Gallery, The Hockaday School, Watercolor paintings by Deborah Lawrence and Brandy Bowen, Dallas, Texas, Spring 1987