About Deb Chaney
Deb Chaney is a contemporary abstract artist, speaker, & workshop facilitator. Self taught, with a background in Earth and Ocean Sciences, she began her artistic journey after taking a number of workshops with artists whom she'd admired, and then selling and exhibiting her work at outdoor fairs and cafes. She's been named by Vancouver City Buzz and Culture Trip as one of the top 10 contemporary artists to watch in Vancouver. Recently, her work was chosen to be reproduced in 3-D to be sold and distributed worldwide through Arius Technologies in Vancouver, BC. Her artwork is held in private collections world-wide and in corporate collection such as the Hilton Hotel. Featured in Style At Home Magazine, The Georgia Strait, thrice on the homepage for Saatchi Online Gallery, in Rainmaker Films, Telus TV and in TV Commercials, she is currently represented by D2Art and Sala Interiors in Los Angeles.
Her painting process often begin with a palette knife in hand, sometimes a question in mind, and the curiosity of mixing new paint colours. Hours, days and sometimes months later, after applying and taking away layers of mixed media - such as acrylic paints, sand, polymer mediums, oil sticks, pastels, collage, spray paint, and pencil crayon - on either heavy paper or canvas - an answer emerges, a painting is formed. She is inspired by her deep endless desire and visceral need to create, along with the ineffable feeling of being present in creative bliss. She is an admirer of the late Helen Frankenthauler, who painted right up to the end of her life. Deb’s works have been described as: "Spiritual consciousness revealed in a physical form. She paints with a healing intention and creates large mixed media paintings with many layers of translucent colour, and infusions of light and earthy ephemera.”
Deb stands for each of us being the creator of our own lives, and that our dominion is within each of us. Through her multi-layered abstract artwork, she invites you pause, feel, and connect - to journey - into your true authentic self.
Exhibitions:
2019 ‘Horizons’ Juried Group Exhibit. Deb Chaney, Jan Rankin, Ronnie Watt, & Wolfgang Vogt. Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia,
2017 4th Annual Salon of Inclusiveness, The Salon of Inclusiveness, Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2017 Raw Artists ‘Fixate’ Collaborative Group Show, Harbour Centre, Vancouver BC
2017 ‘One Year Retrospective’, Kabuni House, Group Exhibit, Vancouver, BC
2017 The Pinnacle Hotel, Collaborative lobby display, North Vancouver, BC
2016 Centrefold Gallery, Pop Up Show, Juried Group Exhibit, Vancouver, BC
2016 ‘As The Crow Flies’, The Cultch, Juried Group Exhibit, Vancouver, BC
2016 ‘Capture Coquitlam’ Place Des Arts, Juried Group Show, Coquitlam, BC
2016 ‘Selected Works’, Performance Works, Solo Exhibit, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
2015 ‘Where Spirituality Meets Physicality’, The Cultch, Group Show, Vancouver, BC
2014 ‘We Are East Van’, Group Show, International Design Show, Taiwan.
2014 ‘Fragments of Life’, Gallery 117, Group Artist Exhibit, South Delta, BC
2014 ‘Elected Members Exhibition’, SCA, Etobicoke Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 Group Show, We Are East Van, at the ARC Gallery as part of the Eastside Culture Crawl
2013 Group Show, Rob Wall Gallery, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
2013 “Where Spirituality meets Physicality” Two person show, Britannia Library Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Juried Group Show, Society of Canadian Artist Members Exhibit, Halifax, NS, Canada
2012 "3, 2, 1... Art Party" Juried Group Show, Seymour Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Greener Pastures, online exhibit, Society of Layerists in Mixed Media.
2012 Artists in Our Midsts Roundhouse Show and Open Studio at Laura Jewitt’s Jewerly, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2012 Havana Gallery, ‘Pure Abstraction’ Solo Show, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2011 East End Culture Crawl Open Studio at The ARC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2011 Group Show with the SLMM “Overtures” Portland Oregon, USA
2011 Group Show, The Roundhouse Exhibit with Artists in Our Midst, Yaletown, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Group Show, The Beaumont Studios “Little Gems” with Rojia Dadashzadeh, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2010 Group Show, The Society of Canadian Artist presents "Little Gems" Galerie Ouest Toronto, ON, Canada.
2009 Solo Exhibit, Patchwork Paper,Via Roma Boutique, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
