Jeannette Debonne

Jeannette Debonne is a native of the Southern California desert. She took her formal training at UCLA where she graduated as a painting major, having studied under William Brice, John Paul Jones and Jan Stussy.

Debonne’s large brilliantly colored abstract paintings reflect a long and carefully studied evolution. Her early paintings employed the academic disciplines acquired during the university years, especially an insistence on classical drawing, and invariably using the human figure as a point of departure. Over a 40-year career, her images began to fracture and eventually evolve into the abstract imagery that has become the hallmark of her paintings. Heavily textured surfaces and an overlay of gestural drawing define her work.

Debonne’s paintings have been widely exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Western Europe and are represented in many corporate and private collections. She was the first-prize winner in “Whaletail”, an international competition, and is included in “Who’s Who in American Art”.

EDUCATION
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Degrees in Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts
Studied under: William Brice, John Paul Jones, Jan Stussy, Sam Amato

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Miranda International, Laguna Beach, CA
Learsi Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Valerie Miller Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Aaron Aubrey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Vander Woude, Palm Springs, CA•
Riverside Library, Riverside, CA
Miranda Galleries, Aspen, CO
Retrospective Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Dorosha Piry Gallery, Rancho Mirage, CA
Kolenich & Lucas Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Miranda Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA
FACT Contemporary Exhibition Space, Laguna Beach, CA
ART/Beasley Gallery, San Diego, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Gallery Hyna, Munich, Germany
Valerie Miller Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Saint Paul’s Cathedral, San Diego, CA
Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY
Riverside Art Center and Museum, Riverside, CA
Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe, NM
Fowler Mills Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Whaletail Exhibition, Nairobi, Kenya
Gallery Vander Woude, Palm Springs, CA
Miranda Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA
Gallery G, Costa Mesa, CA
Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Concordia University, Irvine, CA
Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY