biography
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I have been a practicing visual artist for over thirty years. Having lived in Iowa, New York, Colorado and for the past sixteen years in Washington state, I have come to see that time spent in these vastly different environments has influenced my experience of place as well as informed the visual and symbolic language that I use in my creative work.
Beginning in 2018, I spent two and a half years immersed in the vast terrain of depth psychology. As it’s name implies, depth psychology draws one beneath the surface of things, pointing towards the impulse of the soul in which the image is rooted. It was during this intensive study that the roots of my earliest interests became conscious. Here in these intersections of the human and more-than-human worlds, symbol and metaphor are imagined and given form.
I received my MA in Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2021. My earlier education resulted in an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1988 and a BFA from the University of Iowa in 1980. I have been awarded a number of national, regional and local grants. Over the last several years since my move from the arid high plains of Colorado to the lush and wet pacific northwest, I continue to explore my role as an artist and how I hope to engage in the larger story of these times we are living in. 
artist statement
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Art making is ritual to me. My work dwells in the exchange between nature and culture. In the ineffable space between inside and outside, the visible and the invisible, the physical and the spiritual. What can be described as dream, and what is waking? What are the threads that weave through our lives that connect us to place, to one another? I express these relationships and connections sometimes using a camera or paint, other times using found materials and images ~ abandoned books, donated fabrics, gold leaf, river water and walnut ink. In Robert Bly’s words, “Ritual creates a second flow of events ~ and we enter that stream or not, as we wish. The idea of ritual is strange to our ears; it say that if something is healed in the other world, something is healed in this world also…” (The Sibling Society)cv/resume
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debra goldman
everson, washington. . .debragoldman6@gmail.com
Education:
M.A. Engaged Humanities & the Creative Life with emphasis in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.,May 2021
M.F.A. Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., May 1988, magna cum laude
B.F.A. Photography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA., December 1980
Solo Exhibitions: (abbreviated)
2018 Perry and Carlson Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA, “Ohana: Dreaming in Red”
2016 SAKU, “Weaving the Invisible”, Bellingham, WA
3OMS, “Weaving the Invisible”, Bellingham, WA
2015 Ironton Studios, “Creating Indra’s Net: A Community Art Collaboration”, Denver, Colorado
2011 Bioneers Conference, “Indra’s Net”, San Rafael, CA.,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hN1vMKeCTk
2003 Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, "Afterlight", Denver, Colorado
Platte Forum, "Moving Water: Meditations and Investigations", Denver, Colorado
2002 Carson Masuoka Gallery, “A River Sutra”, Denver, Colorado
2001 G. Gibson Gallery, ”mapping”, Seattle, Washington
Baylor University Museum of Art, “mapping”, Waco, Texas
Ironton Studios and Gallery, “mapping”, Denver, Colorado
2000 Sandy Carson Gallery, “Memory Books”, Denver, Colorado
Pace University, “Pageants of Light”, Pleasantville, New York
1999 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1997 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 G. Gibson Gallery, "Recordar", Seattle, Washington
Mackey Gallery, "Recordar", Denver, Colorado
1994 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1993 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Pearl Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Group Exhibitions: (abbreviated)
2021 Undercroft Gallery, Church of Heavenly Rest, The Magic is in the Seeing: Philip Perkis and His Creative Legacy, New York, New York
Soil & Soul, Charles Morse & Debra Goldman, Vancouver Jung Society, public talk.
Jungian Scholarly Studies Society, Separation, Connection and Interdependence, online national symposium.
Pigments Revealed Symposium Exhibition, Wild Pigment Project, International exhibition and workshop series
2020 Re[evolutions], collaborative film w/Charles Morse and Emily Blass
https://www.thegreenfire.net/revolution-one
2014 Magestic Theater, The Art of Death, Bellingham, Washington
2013 Whatcom Museum, “Nature in the Balance”, Artists Interpreting Climate Change, Bellingham, Washington
2010 Pratt Exceptions and the Exceptionals, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2009 The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, "A Celebration, Retrospective", Denver, Colorado
2003 The Art Center, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, "Context: art & words", Grand Junction, Colorado
G. Gibson Gallery, "other waters", Seattle, Washington
KW Studio/Gallery, "The Book as Art II", Denver, Colorado
2002 G. Gibson Gallery, “Small Wonder”, Seattle, Washington
Grey McGear Modern, Inc., “Image-After Image”, Santa Monica, California
Colorado Museum of Outdoor Arts, “Written Image / Painted Word”, Denver
G. Gibson Gallery, “Out of the Frame”, Seattle, Washington
Republic Plaza, “Colorado Excellence in the Arts”, Denver, Colorado
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, “Photo Based”, Denver, Colorado
Sangre De Cristo Center, “Say What you Like: Word, Text & Story”, Pueblo, CO
Emmanual Gallery, “The State of the Art”, Denver, Colorado
Ironton Studios and Gallery, “Shadow Readings”, Denver, Colorado
Carson Masuoka Gallery, Past Present, Denver, Colorado
Grey McGear Modern, Inc., FICTION / NONFICTION, Santa Monica, California
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado Biennial, Denver, CO.
Univ. of Colorado Gallery of Cont. Art, Together/Working, CO Springs, CO.
Mizel Arts Center, Call and Response: Colorado Artists and the Hebrew Scriptures, Denver, CO.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Benefit, “Love 4 Sale”, Denver, Colorado
Ironton Studios & Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1999 “Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography”, Ansel Adams
Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
Edge Invitational, Denver, Colorado
"Part II", Carol Keller Gallery, Denver, Colorado
"Reflection", Carol Keller Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1998 “Box Art Show”, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming
Center For Photography at Woodstock Benefit Auction, Woodstock, New York
“passion.”, Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, Associate Showcase, Acoma Center Theater, Denver, Colorado, June 1998
1997 “Biography of Memory”, Bucks County Community College, New Hope, PA
“Art & Soul”(mentorship program for developmentally disabled adults), Sponsored by Denver Options, Denver, Colorado
“Beeswax”, SOIL Art Space, Seattle, Washington
1997 “Penetrating Image”, Glass Art Society Conference, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
“Altered Images”, Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 "ZIP802", Juror, Donald Kuspit, Emmanual Gallery, Denver, Colorado
"Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape", SF CAMERAWORK, San Francisco, CA.
"Frag-ments & Forgeries", Boulder Public Library, Boulder, Colorado
"The Art of Women", Republic Plaza, Denver, Colorado
"A Collective Endeavor: ArtFair/Seattle 1992-1995", Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"The Denver Salon", ARTOPIA Gallery, New York, New York
1995 "(Dis)Still(ed) Lives", Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
"Women(s) Work", University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
"Meditations", City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
"Permanent Collection", Center For Photography, Woodstock, New York
1993 "Photographers Choose Photographers", Raritan Valley Community College,
Highland Park, New Jersey
"Rendezvous with Depiction", College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York
"Benefit for POWARS", The Gallery, Three Zero, New York, New York
1992 "Still Life Today; Recapturing its Essence", Scott Alan Fine Arts, New York, New York
1992 "Art-Eco: Contemporary Art and the Environment", College Art Gallery,
SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York
Awards and Recognition:
2020/21 Artist in Residence, San Juan Island, Washington, Project: Island Bodies / Healing the Split
2017 Recipient, Project Neighborly grant, Whatcom Community Foundation, Project: Creating Communities ~ Weaving Indra’s Net in Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA
2015 Recipient “GO Gratitude Grant” , Global Objectives, Project: Sacred Work, Bellingham, Washington
2002 Recipient of Artist Fellowship Award, Colorado Council on the Arts, Denver, Colorado
1997 Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, Collaborative Project (Healing Room) & Residency Associateship, Denver, CO.
1996 Recipient of Faculty Creative Research Grant, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, CO.
1995 Recipient of WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for the Visual Arts
1995 Faculty Research & Creative Activities Award, School of the Arts, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado
1995 Recipient of COVisions Recognition Award, Colorado Council on the Arts
1995 Recipient of COVisions Promotional Grant, CCA, Denver, Colorado
1994 Recipient of Artists Fellowship , New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York
1994 Recipient of Faculty Creative Research Grant, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, CO.
1991 Recipient of Individual Photographer's Fellowship, The Aaron Siskind Foundation, Inc., New York, New York
1990 Recipient of Artist Grant, Artists Space, New York, New York
1989 Recipient of Artists Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York
1989 Recipient of Photographers Fellowship, Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York
1987 Second Place and Honorable Mention; "Photographer's Forum" magazine
Public Collections: (abbreviated)
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2002
Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, 2001
Houston Center For Photography, 1994
Princeton University Art Museum, 1994
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, G.C.I., Maine, 1991
Polaroid International Photography Collection, Polaroid Corporation, 1989, 1990
New Acquisitions, Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1989
New Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1989
Center for Photography, Woodstock, N.Y., 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, 1990
Phoenix Arts Commission, Phoenix, Arizona, 1990
Bibliography: (abbreviated)
2011 Earthsayer videos/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hN1vMKeCTk/ Indra's Net
2003 Denver Post, Denver duo light up art scene, by Kyle MacMillan,
November 28, 2003
2000 Denver Post, Artist turns photography to fiction, by Kyle MacMillan,
October 31, 2000
1999 Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, exhibition catalog
Society for Photographic Education, 36th Annual Conference,
Writing & Photography, Shadow Readings: The Ineffable Image
1998 Casper Star Tribune, Boxes Full of Art, Jeff Tollefson, 10.23.98
ART PAPERS, Debra Goldman at Gibson Gallery, by Cheryl H. Hahn,
January/February 1998 ,Volume 22, Issue 1
1997 TERRA NOVA, Nature & Culture, Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 1997
(sequence of photographs published)
Parallaxis, Fifty Five Points of View, Western States Arts Federation
1996 TERRA NOVA, Nature & Culture, Volume 1, Number 4, Winter 1996 (sequence of photographs published)
Denver Post, Contemporary Denver, Steven Rosen, Oct. 24, 1996
Rocky Mountain News, Best and worst of local art on display, M. Voelz Chandler, 10.25.96
Westword, “Mile-High Offense”, by Michael Paglia, November 8, 1996
Boulder Planet, “Fragments & Forgeries”, by Jennifer Heath, Oct2-8, 1996
ZIP802, exhibition catalog, essay & curated by Donald Kuspit
CAMERAWORK, A Journal of Photographic Arts, “Refiguring Nature, Women in the Landscape, Fall/Winter 1996
Reflex, The Northwest's Forum on the Visual Arts, by Ted Lindberg, Feb. 96, Vol.10,No.1
Artweek, by Ron Glowen, January 1996, Vol. 27 Number 1
1995 Reflex, The Northwest's Forum on the Visual Arts, by Jill Conner, Dec 95, Vol.9,No.11
Westword, "Rememberances", by Michael Paglia, November 22-28, 1995
Rocky Mountain News, by Mary Voelz Chandler, November 10, 1995
The Seattle Times, by Robin Updike, November 9, 1995
American PHOTO magazine, "Collecting Photographs", by Russell Hart,
1994 Hudson Valley magazine, "Arts", by Rachel Weimerskirch, December 1994
1993 ARTVOICE, by Mimi Pentz
CEPA Journal, Fall/Winter by Robert Hirsch
The Arizona Republic/The Phoenix Gazette, by Evelyn Cooper
1992 Artweek, "Metaphor & Metamorphosis, Photographic Book Art in the United States", July 1992 by Barbara Fisher
The Bar Harbor Times, October 1992 by Nan Lincoln
Fotogalerie Wien, "Allegorical Truth in Photography", exhibition catalog
AmerikaHaus Munchen, "Allegorical Truth in Photography", exhibition catalog
Moigen, 4 August 1992
Salzburger Nachrichten, Freitag, 17 July 1992
Munchner Merkur, 28 July 1992 by Elgin Heurerding
Der Standard, 28 July 1992, by Kerstin Hehmann
Photo Presse, 3 June 1992, Frank Frese
The Chicago Tribune, June 19, by Abigail Foerstner
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 3, by Janet Tyson
1991 The New York Times, December 8, by William Zimmer
New Haven Register, November 24, by E. Fleischman