Deborah Sisco

These works were not born from a single idea, but from a series of emotional impressions—moments that lingered, textures that spoke, colors that insisted on being felt.

I begin with the surface: wood panels that hold weight and warmth. Layers of oil, resin, and pigment are applied not to illustrate, but to evoke. Each stroke is a response—sometimes deliberate, sometimes instinctive. I work until the piece begins to speak back.

My path to this work has been anything but linear. I was a self-taught painter for many years before formally studying studio art—graduating with honors at the age of 69. That return to education wasn’t a beginning, but a deepening. It gave language to instincts I had carried all along.

In recent years, my work has received international recognition, including the Leonardo Da Vinci Contemporary Artist Award. But accolades are not the measure of meaning. What matters most is that each piece carries a truth—about loss, about love, about the spaces in between.

In this collection, I have also invited AI into the studio—not as a replacement for intuition, but as a companion in exploration. Through digital reinterpretation, I have discovered new visual metaphors, unexpected compositions, and emotional echoe...

B.F.A. Studio Art
College of Charleston, SC

2025 - Solo Exhibition, "Between Stillness and Disappearance" -USC Beaufort Center for the Arts
2024 -Perseus Gallery of Fine Art -NYC
2022 -Galleria Azur - Miami, Fla.
2021 - "Young Contemporaries" - Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
2018- Group Exhibition of 4 Artists- El Duende- Ottovolarte Gallery - Florence, Italy
2018 Group Exhibition- Brush Strokes- Art Mecca
2017 Group Exhibition - Young Contemporaries - Halsey Institute of Fine Art at the College of Charleston
2016 Solo Exhibition - Art Mecca of Charleston
2015 "Pieces of Me" - Solo exhibition, Charleston
Artist Guild Gallery
2014 Gallery 72 Pop Up group exhibit at the
Lowland Brewery
2013 'Let the Music Play' - Featured Artist exhibit
at the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery
2012 Featured Artist at the Charleston Artist
Guild Gallery
2011 Solo exhibit at the Flagship Gallery
2011 'Show of Strength' - Group exhibit at the
Real Estate Studio
2010 Charleston Artist Guild Gallery
2010 Paintings on exhibit in the Set design of "Little Red Wagon" Major Motion Film
2010 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Indoor Exhibit (only 65 chosen out of 272 entries)
2009 No...