Artists Registry
Rockville MD United States
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It was one of the most beautiful days of the year, and one of the most horrible days in our lifetime. Images confronted us that we couldn’t believe we were seeing, and from which we couldn’t turn away. In the show, “The Bluest Day,” painter Deborah Addison Coburn presented, on the five-year anniversary of September 11, a collection of paintings and collages inspired by the images that had been haunting her since that day, as distilled through memory and emotion. These are a sampling of some of those pictures.
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Deborah Addison Coburn is a painter and collage artist in the Washington, DC area. She received a BFA in painting from Cornell University, where she studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag and May Stevens. After post-graduate study in painting, graphic design and illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she worked as an advertising art director at Doner Advertising and Smith Burke & Azzam in Baltimore, MD, and at Tracy-Locke/BBDO in Dallas, TX. After not painting for 27 years, Deborah was moved by the events of September 11 to begin again. Since returning to painting, Ms. Coburn has studied at the Corcoran School of Art with William Christenberry and Steven Cushner. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at the Foundry Gallery and MoCA in Washington, DC, and The Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. She has an upcoming solo show the Montpelier Art Center in Laurel, MD in Fall 2008.