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
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
Recent Shows & Exhibition
2023
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
2022
Art Expo Dallas
Represented by Jen Tough Gallery (Santa Fe)
Dallas, TX
Verge Center for the Arts
SAC Open Studio Preview Show
Sacramento, CA
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
Pence Gallery
Community Wall /2021 Remembrance
Davis, CA
Blue Line Gallery
Member Medley
Roseville, CA
2021
Verge Center for the Arts
SAC Open Studio Preview Show
Sacramento, CA
Pence Gallery
Exhibit It!
Davis, CA
Artist Alliance/ Jen Tough Gallery
Member Show
Santa Fe, NM
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
New Member Exhibit
Roseville, 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