Deborah Newman

Deborah Newman (born 1956, Santa Barbara, CA)
Deborah’s artistic journey began in her early years in Marin County. Her childhood was spent hiking along the trails of Mount Tamalpais and riding horses across the Marin Headlands. These beautiful places ignited a lifelong love of the outdoors. Specializing in landscapes and seascapes, Deborah reveals the interplay of light, color and texture with vibrant hues and thoughtful compositions. She paints en plein air to capture the freshness of natural settings in real time. Deborah brings both formal education and professional experience to her art. She graduated with a BS in Fine Art from the University of Oregon, followed by a BFA with honors from the Art Center College of Design. She worked for years as an art director for Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Agency in San Francisco. After relocation to Southern Nevada with her husband and children, Deborah began painting professionally in 2003. Deborah maintains her successful career as a painter of landscapes and seascapes but is actively engaged in exploring new artistic directions. Her current series — “The Afterparty” — features abandoned signage in abstracted settings that reveal themselves to be logically impossible only after closer ...

B.F.A. Honors Graphic Design Art Center
College of Design Pasadena, California

B.S. Fine Art University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon

New York Art Students League New York, New York

School of Visual Arts Painting Residency New York, New York

10/16/2025 - 1/1/2026
Reception: 10/16/2025 5 - 7PM
The Afterparty
Mayor's Gallery
401 S. Fourth St., Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
United States
(702) 229-ARTS
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The Afterparty brings together the work of Deborah Newman and Kat Ryals, two artists whose practices explore into the allure, excess and inevitable decay of consumer culture filtered through the distinct lens of Las Vegas. Their work forms a layered dialogue about artifice, aspiration and the fleeting nature of spectacle in a city built on illusion.

Ryals’ Showroom Dynasty series features opulent, yet subversive velvet-printed rugs inspired by casino carpets and European textiles. These installations evoke the extravagance of Las Vegas interior pools, buffets, and neon-lit lobbies, while subtly undermining that glamour using salvaged and discarded materials. Her lush surfaces both seduce and critique, exposing the instability of luxury and the constructed nature of wealth.
Newman’s oil paintings depict fragments of abandoned signage with a mix of abstraction and nostalgia. Layers of brushwork and unfinished sections evoke a haunting sense of loss, as if the once-vibrant language of neon and advertising is slowly disintegrating. Her compositions invite viewers to ...