DEBORAH LAWRENCE SCHAFER
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Born in 1970 in San Antonio, Texas, Deborah Lawrence Schafer has an A.B. in Visual Arts from Princeton University. She worked for more than a decade in art museums in curatorial and tech-related capacities, had a second career helping 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 San Francisco 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

Oneness: A Social Justice Exhibition (group exhibition), Illustrative Voices
www.illustrativevoices.org
January 13- February 10, 2021

Brave New World, Quarry Hill Antiques by UpstartModern, Mill Valley, California
January 9-February 12, 2021

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– canceled due to COVID-19 lockdown

Art Market San Francisco, Studio Shop Gallery, Booth 207, Fort Mason, San Francisco, April 25-28, 2019
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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


2021 © Deborah Lawrence Schafer
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    • Botanical
    • Bear Island
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