Deborah Kern

Deborah Kern was born in 1969, Plainfield, NJ. She grew up in the Philadelphia area where she took early fine arts classes at Moore College of art and went on to receive her BFA in painting from Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1991.
She spent the next two decades living and painting in New York , Mexico, Southeast Asia, and the Greek Islands to expand her vision and work. The resulting images take on a feminine quality in line and form. Gothic, romantic, expressionistic, and emotionally charged, her paintings often contain muted blacks and whites with pops of acidic, highly saturated color. She enjoys intricate almost sinister looking spidery lines against broad open sweeps of space. You see the influences from her travels in her work, most notably from Mexican artists such as Frida Kahlo and the more expressionistic work of David Siquieros. One also detects a love of the quirky flat faces and figures found in European medieval paintings as well as early Greek representations of the human form.
The artist has exhibited and participated in many group shows such as The Astoria Artist Coalition Show in Athens Square Park, Astoria, as well as numerous exhibitions with the Organization of Independent Artists in the Wesbe...

Parsons School Of Design, NYC 1991 BFA

2024 Artfields Competitor, Lake City, SC
2024 Spring Free For All, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2020 Spring Free For All, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2019 Fall Free For All, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2019 Davidson Community College Fall Art Show, Lexington, NC 2019 Bodies Exhbition, Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, NC 2019 Art With Heart Auction, Larry Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2019 Art 100, Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, NC
2018 Peoples Choice Entry, Winter Juried Show, Charlotte Art League 2018 Davidson Community College Fall Art Show, Lexington, NC
2018 Art Pop Up Show, Le Meridian Hotel, Evoke Lounge, Charlotte, NC 2018 Artfields Competitor, Lake City, SC
2018 Spring Free For All, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2018 Collectors Choice Exhibit and Auction, Studio Channel Islands, Ventura, CA 2017 Fall Free For All, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2017 Spring Free For All, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2017 Facets, Gallery Twenty Two, Charlotte, NC
2016 Spaces, Cultural Initiative’s Annual Showcase, Charlotte, NC
2016 Arts Fete, Advent Coworking, Charlotte, NC
2016 Showdown 2016, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2015 Fall into Art, Charlotte Art League (Juried Competition), Charlotte, ...