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Portland, OR, 97232
United States

About

Deborah Gillis is an artist based in Portland, Oregon.
Her work explores the space between abstraction and representation.


Selected Exhibitions

2014

35th Anniversary Invitational — Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

2013

Silver, 25th Anniversary Exhibition — Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
New Work: Deborah Gillis — Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

2012

Metamorphosis — Butters Gallery, group exhibition, Portland, OR

2009

Painting Axioms — beppu wiarda gallery, Portland, OR
Painting Axioms — beppu wiarda gallery, Red Dot Show, New York, NY

2008

Art in Embassies — U.S. Department of State, Skopje, Macedonia

2007

New Work: Deborah Gillis — beppu wiarda gallery, Portland, OR

2005

New Work: Deborah Gillis — beppu wiarda gallery, Portland, OR
Art in Embassies — U.S. Department of State, Bamako, Mali 

2004

Ocean Edge Series — Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
Light Patterns — Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA 
Gallery Materia/Bentley Group — group exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

2003

The American Landscape — Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Marshall Arts Gallery — group exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
Sitka Art Invitational — group exhibition, Portland, OR

2002

Flora: Imaginary Realms — group exhibition, Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR
From a Distance: the American Landscape — Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Sitka Art Invitational — group exhibition, Portland OR

2001

Confluence of Natural Phenomena — Patrica Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Water Stained Clear — Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Light Unhinged — Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR
Portland Artists, Past and Present — An invitational celebration of Jack McLarty,
Berbatis Gallery, Portland, OR

2000

Reconfiguring Nature — Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Confluence of Natural Phenomena — Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Confluence — Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR
Sitka Art Invitational — group exhibition, Portland, OR
Women 25+ — Invitational exhibition, Berbatis Gallery, Portland,OR

1999

Reconfiguring Nature — Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Expressions West — Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR        
Reconfiguring Nature — Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR   
Sitka Art Invitational — group exhibition, Portland, OR
Color of Dreams — Invitational exhibition for the Waldorf School, Littman Gallery,
Portland State University, Portland, OR

1998

Northwest Expressions — Coos Bay Art Museum and Southern Oregon College Foundation,
Coos Bay, OR
Sitka Art Invitational — group exhibition, Portland, OR

1997

Portrait of Who you were Before You were Given a Name — Sockeye Studios,
Group Exhibition, Portland OR
Art Slate’97 Exhibition — Condon Arts Association, Condon, OR
Sitka Art Invitational — group exhibition, Portland, OR


Education

1995
1975

B.F.A., Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
B.S., University of Oregon, Eugene, OR


Awards

1997
1994
1993

Art Slate ’97 — Artist Award, Condon Arts Association, Condon, OR
Alumni and Friends Award — Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Intel Scholarship Award — Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR