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