Deb Baker Hall

Mixed Media Artist

Sacramento, CA

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I work abstractly and beyond selecting a particular color palette I don't preplan my imagery. Staying open to what "arrives" is my only strategy.  Responding intuitively to "what next" in terms of adding fresh adjacencies of color, pattern, texture and forms is how I build my visual story.

My background as a landscape designer and geology-loving trekker informs both my imagery and my creative process. I apply multiple passes of paint, inks, crayon and graphite over collaged papers I find or print myself, selectively sanding and glazing between applications to add depth and a patina of age.  In this manner I reveal the course of my explorations and express my deep interest in what time passing both builds and degrades physically, geologically, even emotionally.  

​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 collage works.

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My works have been juried into and exhibited in galleries throughout the country including Texas, Colorado, Florida and California, and been showcased on Artsy, ArstyShark, and in Artists of the Bay Area, Vol. 1 (2022), published by Jen Tough Gallery (Santa Fe).

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