Deb Baker Hall
Mixed Media Artist
Sacramento, CA
As a mixed media artist, working abstractly, I draw heavily on my background as a landscape designer, environmental horticulturist and geology-loving trekker. Through scarred and textured surfaces, torn and degraded papers, broken lines and dimensional “finds”, I reference the places I love best: slot canyons, granite domes, rubble-strewn streams, and any trail ascending to spare, expansive spaces that reveal their geological origins.
Likewise, I find pleasure in the flat and papered walls of urban streetscapes and the geometric adjacencies of multi-hued and textured growing fields. In all ways, my artistic practice mirrors my joy in discovering what lies beneath and within these weathered terrains.
My formal art studies at the University of Akron focused on printmaking. Mono and relief prints still figure in my work as collage elements and substrates for both my paintings and assemblages.
Publications
Artsy Shark Featured Artist (2023)
https://www.artsyshark.com/2023/09/04/featured-artist-deb-hall/
Artists of the Bay Area, Vol. 1 (2022)
Jen Tough Gallery / Blurb Books
https://www.blurb.com/b/11023213-artists-of-the-bay-area-vol-1
Residencies
Artist Alliance Stay-in-Place Summer Residency
Summer 2023
Jen Tough Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
Recent Shows & Exhibitions
2024
Gallery Route One
Connected
Juried by TaVee Lee, Transmission Gallery
Point Reyes, CA
Arts Benicia
Art of a Community 2024 Exhibition
Benicia, CA
2023
Jen Tough Gallery/Artsy.net
Small Works Show
AIR Studios Santa Fe, On-line Artsy Gallery Partnership
3 Square Art Gallery
NOOBAA 23/Non-Objective Art Annual Exhibition
Honorable Mention Award
Juried by David Reif, Prof. Emeritus of Art, U of Wyoming
Fort Collins, CO
Center for Contemporary Arts
2023 CCAN Exhibition
Juried by Letitia Huckaby
Abilene, TX
Triton Art Museum
Salon at the Triton 2023
Juried by Cuong Nguyen
Santa Clara, CA
Jen Tough Gallery/Artsy.net
A World of It's Own
Juried by John Yoyogi Fortes
Santa Fe, NM , On-line Artsy Gallery Partnership
San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center
In the Abstract (3 works)
Juried by James Panozzo, Founder/Exec.Dir..Launch LA
Encino, CA
Gallery Route One
Seen & Imagined
Juried by Jeremy P.H. Morgan, Lucid Art Foundation
Point Reyes Station, CA
Blue Line Gallery
Member Medley
Roseville, CA
Verge Center for the Arts
SAC Open Studio Preview Show
Sacramento, CA
Placerville Arts Association
57th National Motherlode Exhibit
Juried by William Ishmael
Placerville, CA
2022
Art Expo Dallas
Represented by Jen Tough Gallery (Santa Fe)
Dallas, TX
San Fernando Valley Arts & Culture Center
Best of Show
In the Abstract
Juried by Bob Burridge
Encino, CA
Artist Alliance/ Jen Tough Gallery
Works on Paper
Juried by Kerry Downey, RISD
Santa Fe, NM
Verge Center for the Arts
SAC Open Studio Preview Show & Juried Auction
Sacramento, CA
Pence Gallery
Community Wall 2021 Remembrance
Davis, CA
Blue Line Gallery
Member Medley
Roseville, CA
2021
Artist Alliance/ Jen Tough Gallery
Member Show
Santa Fe, NM
Verge Center for the Arts
SAC Open Studio Preview Show & Juried Auction
Sacramento, CA
Pence Gallery
Exhibit It!
Davis, CA
2020
Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary
Modern Art National (Juried)
Plano, TX
Flagler County Art League
Honorable Mention Award
Every Color Has a Story (Juried)
Palm Coast, FL
Verge Center for the Arts
SAC Open Studio Preview Show & Juried Auction
Sacramento, CA
Blue Line Gallery
Member Medley
Roseville, CA
Art Education
1991-1995
University of Akron
Post-Baccalaureate Program/ Fine Arts
University of Akron
Akron, OH
2016 & 2019
Creative Vision Program
Art2Life Academy
Marin, CA