Debra Sachs

Two Carpenters, 1989
Painted Wood, 13" x 26" x 3"

Debra Sachs was born in 1953 in Worcester, Massachusetts.  She received her B.F.A. in painting in 1975 from Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her M.A. in 1978 from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in the country and abroad.  She has received numerous awards, including two New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowships, and a National Endowment of the Arts regional fellowship through the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.  Her work is included in many private, museum and corporate collections as well as the US embassy in Thailand.  Sach’s sculptures are represented by browngrotta arts in Wilton, Connecticut.  She also works in partnership with Marilyn Keating on public art and studio projects at The South Jersey Museum of Curiosities.  According to the artist’s statement, it is important that what she creates “appears simple, no matter how complex in form; beautiful, no matter how unadorned; and fully present even though inanimate.”

 

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