DEBRA WALKER     paintings     monoprints     drawings     resume

ARTIST STATEMENT

"My work is an extension of my existence.  I paint as on ongoing commentary on what I see, what I feel, what I think - the endless reality of things happening at once.  I paint a narrative of an incessant process of living.  What the paintings say is 'this is what it is to walk down the street in the rain, this is what it feels like to know that people do not have homes even as cities are full of them, or this is the unconsciousness that breeds universal anger – the calm before the storm’s advance.'  I paint modern landscapes with a social message.  I use words, hidden or revealed.  I use symbols whose meanings are yet to be revealed.  I indicate what is happening around the corner – in the alley.  I want to insinuate enough to make the audience fill in the dots.  I am searching constantly to use the unspoken language, to communicate through the subliminal.  To reach the unconscious, and engage it in the conscious. I paint real occurrences and include the subtext.  I am certain that art reaches truth at some point and wakes it up.  As an artist it is my job to get out of the way and let it happen.  D. Walker 2007

RESUME

BORN 1953  
Omaha, Nebraska        
San Francisco resident since 1981         

EDUCATION
1972-1974  Riverside City College - Fine Arts Major
1974-1975  UCLA - Fine Arts Studies
1976-1993  Self-taught
1993-1994  Visual Arts Access
1995-1996  UC Berkeley - various studies
1999 Crown Point Press - intaglio etching

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1974
Riverside Art Museum
1992
Gordon Biersch - San Francisco
1993
Bagdad Cafe - San Francisco
York Street Studios - San Francisco
Gordon Biersch - San Francisco
1994        
Cowell Theater - San Francisco
1995    
George Krevsky Fine Art - San Francisco - “Introductions
1996     
CSK, Inc. - Denver, CO - “Painitings, Monotypes & Etchings
George Krevsky Fine Art - San Francisco - “New Paintings”
1999     
George Krevsky Fine Art - San Francisco - “En Route”
2001     
Theater on the Square - San Francisco - Vagina Monologue
George Krevsky Gallery – San Francisco-Politics
2003     
Gallery 72 – Omaha, Nebraska
Columbus Art Gallery – Columbus, Nebraska
2004       
George Krevsky Gallery – San Francisc0-San Francisco Night and Day

GROUP EXHIBITIONS         
1974        
Purchase Prize Competition - Riverside Press  Enterprise
1987        
Open Studio - San Francisco
Shenandoah Gallery - Plymouth, CA
A Tiburon Affair - Tiburon, CA
1988        
A Tiburon Affair - Tiburon, CA
Open Studio - San Francisco
1989        
Ariel Gallery - New York City
Open Studio - San Francisco
1990
Open Studio - San Francisco
1992        
Bay Arts Gallery - San Francisco
1993        
Bay Arts Gallery - San Francisco
Riverside Art Museum - Riverside, CA
Open Studio - San Francisco
George Krevsky Fine Art - San Francisco
1994        
Open Studio - San Francisco
George Krevsky Fine Art - San Francisco
1996        
National Association of Women Artist
International Exhibit, Athens Greece
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Auction
1997        
Evelyn Seigel Fine Art - Forth Worth, TX
George Krevsky Fine Art - San Francisco
1998        
Triton Museum, San Jose - California Landscapes
Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA - Works on Paper 98
George Krevsky Gallery - Contemporary Bay Area Artists
1999        
George Krevsky Gallery - The Women, Gallery artists
2000        
George Krevsky Gallery - Diamonds and Dust
2001        
George Krevsky Gallery - Interiors
2002        
George Krevsky Gallery – Play Ball
2003        
Luggage Store Gallery- No War
George Krevsky Gallery - Baseball
2005        
California Senate Contemporary Art Exhibit- Sacramento
George Krevsky Gallery - Baseball
2006        
California Senate Contemporary Art Exhibit- Sacramento                          
Gallery artists-George Krevsky Gallery  
2007
Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
Debra Walker/Urban West Coast and Lou Schellenberg/Rural East Coast       

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS      
1974     
Purchase Prize Award - Riverside Press/EnterprisE
1995        
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers - Series Poster
1996        
San Francisco Art Dealer’s Ass. - Introductions Poster
1997        
Lesbian & Gay Dance Festival - Festival Poster
1998        
Open Studio San Francisco - Exhibition Poster
2000        
Local Heroes -San Francisco Bay Guardian Award
2005             
San Francisco Public Defender Program Annual Report Cover

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE       
1975-1976  United Artist’s Records - Designer
1976-1978  Los Angeles Times - Ass. Art Director
1978-1981  owned design and advertising agency
1981-1982  Bowles-Hopkins Gallery -art consultant
1985-1991  freelance commercial artist/print consultant
1991-1992  business/production manager - Redgate Communications-advertising/design agency
2005-pres.   Adjunct – New College of California, Creative Inquiry Program

BIBLIOGRAPHY        
1993  “Mrs. Doubtfire” Twentieth Century Fox - “CHAIR”
1997  “Nash Bridges” Off Duty Productions - “OUT OVER THE CITY” and “NIGHT FALLING- DOWNTOWN”
1999     “Two Goldsteins on Acid” The Bubble Factory - ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE”

SELECTED COLLECTIONS         
Mickey & Jerry Baer, Berkeley
Bernard Brown, Vineland, New Jersey
Karen Connell, Walnut Creek
Michael Cuneo, Sunnyvale
Audrey Deane, Millbrae
Lee Glowinski, San Francisco
SF Treasurer Dennis Herrera, San Francisco
Robert Isackson, San Francisco
Supervisor Leslie Katz, San Francisco
David Kreutner, Ontario, Canada
William Lehman, Miami
John Lennox, San Francisco
Maureen McCarthy, San Francisco
Cal. Senator, Carole Migden
Harrel Moten & Dr. Mary Bria, Southlake, Texas
Eleanor Murphy, Lafayette
Robert Radler, Hollywood, Florida
Liz Scoville, Hampton, New Jersey
Ruth Scoville, Miami, Florida
Sid Sheinberg, The Bubble Factory, Los Angeles
A. Robert Singer, San Francisco
Stein Kingsley Stein, San Francisco
Twentieth Century Fox, Los Angeles
Lulu Zezza, Los Angles

AFFILIATIONS        
National Association of Women Artists
San Francisco Arts Task Force - Member
Coalition for Jobs, Arts and Housing – Founding member
San Francisco Building Inspection Commission-President

PRESS RELEASES   click on entry to read

Lou Schellenberg, Rural East Coast and Debra Walker, Urban West Coast at Lynden Gallery - June 2007