Paintings by Deborah Barlow

Formerly of the Bay Area, Barlow is now a Boston-based artist who has been featured in several previous gallery shows at A.C.T. She describes her work as closely aligned with nature. “What compels me most is the natural world at the edges. The extremes are most provocative to me—the emptiness of a desert expanse or the intricate layering of a microscopic world view. It’s what isn’t obvious that keeps me looking, and I look without any desire to mimic or reproduce those marginal worlds. My paintings are not objects as much as they are a record of how to search.”

Jan Lhormer, in a recent review of Barlow’s work in Art in New England, writes, “A deep sense of form underlies the complex, nonobjective picture plane, linking the work to landscape and elements of nature. . . . Her creativity celebrates visual language as a transformative, primitive, and elemental power.” Other reviewers have described her art as “magical explorations,” “compelling,” and "able to draw one from a distance, in an instant."

Barlow exhibits her work in galleries in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She represented the United States in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, and was artist-in-residence at Anam Cara in County Cork Ireland. In summer 2007 she was featured at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She will be exhibiting at the Lyman-Eyer Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in July 2008.

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