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| Education:
Master of Fine Arts, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Riverside, CA.
Awards and Commissions:
2008
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York.
2007
GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle.
2007
Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ.
2006
CityArtist Project Grant, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle.
2005
Creative Capital Grant, New York.
2002-3
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, Visual Art, Seattle.
2002
Finalist, Betty Bowen Artist Award, Seattle Art Museum.
2001-2
Seattle Justice Center Permanent Public Art, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.
1995-2003
Washington State Arts Commission, Arts in Education, Olympia, WA.
1999
GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle.
1997-8
Special Projects Grant, King County Arts Commission, Seattle.
1996
Commission, Seattle Artists Visual Arts Program, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle.
Nominee, The Ned Behnke Artist Fellowship, Seattle.
1995
GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle.
1994
WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists.
Cultural Resources Division, King County Arts Commission, Seattle.
Metro Poetry Bus Project, Metro Arts Program, Seattle.
Artist In Residence, Salem Arts Council, Salem, OR.
Curator's Award, Northwest Annual, COCA, Seattle (Joel-Peter Witkin, curator).
1993-4
Commission, Seattle Artists Visual Arts Program, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle.
1991-2
Individual Artist Grant, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
1991
Grant, Adolph and Shirley Gottlieb Foundation, New York.
1990-1
Individual Artist Grant, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
1988-9
Individual Artist Grant, Artists in Communities, California Arts Council.
1981
California State Fellowship, Fine Art.
1976
Nomination, Who's Who In American Colleges and Universities.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
2007
Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York.
2005
Provisions Library Resource Center for Activism and the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2003
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA.
2000
Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
1999
Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA.
Imogene Cunningham Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle.
1996
King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle.
1995
Sandford Gallery, Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
1987
Rex Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA (catalog).
1986
U.C.L.A. Art Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
1982
West Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.
1979
Riverside Art Center, Riverside, CA.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Paradise Regained, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts (Helen Lessick, curator), Los Angeles.
Syndicalism: NW Art Cartel, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle.
The Seed, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA.
The Art of Protest & Dissent, Gallery of the Common Experience, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
2006
Objects and Stories, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
2005
Money, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA.
Recycled Art Invitational, NYFA Gallery, Seattle.
2004
Beyond Talk: Redrawing Race, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle.
Vexed: Political Art, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
Recycled Art Invitational, BallardWorks, Seattle.
2003
Art & Justice, Artworks in the new Justice Center, City Space Gallery, Seattle.
With A Little Help From Her Friends, Porter Exchange Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.The Eight Hands of Zelda Gilroy, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle.
HomeLand, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA.
2002
One Year Later, M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle Central Community College.
2000
The Whole World Is Watching, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle.
1999
Here and There (Dee Dee Does the First Amendment), Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle.
1997
They Came Here First, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle.
Human References: Marks of the Artist, A 10-Year Retrospective of the Seattle Artists'
Program Collection(Beth Sellars, curator), Seattle Center, Seattle.
Celebrity: Figures of Fame, Fortune, Heroism and Infamy (Greg Kucera, Jed Rauscher, Jena Scott,
curators), Bumbershoot, Seattle Center, Seattle.
1996
Paper and Glue, Two-Person Exhibition, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA.
Nominee Exhibition, Neddy Artist Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, WA Convention Center, Seattle.
Textures, Seattle Art Museum Sales and Rental Gallery, Seattle.
Narrative Art, Seattle Art Museum Sales and Rental Gallery, Seattle.
1995-6
In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and
California State University, Hayward, CA.
1995
Knowing Her Place, Wonderful World of Art, Seattle.
1995
Folie A Deux, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle.
Agents of Change: Northwest International Women's Conference Art Exhibition, (Peggy Weiss and Ann Rosenthal, curators) Washington Convention and Trade Center, Seattle.
Broadcast, Rio Hondo College, (Kim Abeles, curator), Whittier, CA.
Dreams and Visions, Seattle Art Museum Sales and Rental Gallery, Seattle.
1994
Kirkland Art Center Annual (Peggy Weiss, curator), Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA.
Family Values, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA.
Northwest Annual (Joel-Peter Witkin, curator), CoCA, Seattle.
Contemporary Figurative Art, Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle.
Figure and Ground, (Jake Seniuk, curator) Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA.
Seattle Artists: Seattle Arts Commission Group Exhibition, Metropolis Gallery, Seattle.
1993
The Artists' Writing Reading Room, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA.
Wings Over L.A., Westside Arts Center/Santa Monica Place (catalog), Santa Monica, CA.
1992
A Room With A View, Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA .
1992
The Sticking Place: Space and Image in Contemporary Collage (Peter Frank, curator), Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, CA.
Recent Political Art, Jose Druis-Biada Gallery, Mt. St. Mary's College, Los Angeles.
Issue of Choice, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), L.A., CA.
1991
World News, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Whittier, CA.
California Artists' Books, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
Vigilance, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA.
Message in a Bottle, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.
Faculty Show, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA), Idyllwild, CA.
World News, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA.
1990
Terra Fluxus, CA State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA (catalog).
Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, Arroyo Arts Collective, Los Angeles (catalog).
1989
Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, Lidovy Dum, Prague, Czechoslovakia. (catalog).
The Barbie Show, CA State University, Long Beach, CA.
Ex Libris: Narrative Art in Postmodern Los Angeles, Druis-Biada Gallery, Mt. St. Mary's College, Los Angeles.
1988
A Thousand Words, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA.
1986
New Collage '86, (Robert Pincus, curator), Design Center of Los Angeles.
1985
To The Astonishing Horizon: The California Landscape (Peter Frank, curator). Design Center of L.A.
1985
45 Southern California Artists, Metro Rail Transit Consultants, Los Angeles.
1984
National Copier Art Exhibition, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY (purchase prize; catalog).
1983
Sixth Annual Downtown Artists Show (Richard Armstrong, curator), LACE, Los Angeles.
Selected Bibliography:
Rebecca Albiani, Deborah Lawrence at Esther Claypool Gallery, Artweek, March 2000, p. 27. Illustration.
Kay Allard, Creative righting: Art and politics intersect, Real Change, Vol.11, No. 1, May 13-26, 2004, p.12. Illustration.
Caroline Allen, On Exhibit, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 20, 2000, p.27, Illustration.
Ruth Askey, Deborah F. Lawrence, Artscene, Oct. 1985, p. 13. Illustration.
Dinah Berland, New Collage 1986, Downtown News, August 1986.
Antoinette Botsford-Epstein, A Cohesive Exhibit, L.A. News, July 1986, p. 6. Illustration.
Aslan Brooke, Lawrence calendars at U.C.L.A., The News, June 13, 1986, p. 16.
Greg Burkman, The trouble with NW feminism, The Stranger, Feb. 6, 1995. Illustration.
Frances DeVuono, Reviews, Artweek, Deborah F. Lawrence at Catherine Person Gallery, Sept. 2006, Vol. 37, p. 23. Illustration.
Frances DeVuono, Reviews/West Coast: Spokane, WA, Art Papers Magazine, Jan/Feb 2004, p. 57. Illustration.
Frances DeVuono, Here and There at CoCA, Artweek, October 1999, p. 30.
Marlena Donohue, Galleries, Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1987, p. 22.
Anna Fahey, Reviews, Seattle Weekly, June 7, 2001, p. 55 and 93. Illustration.
Anna Fahey, Reviews, Art Papers Magazine, Nov/Dec. 1999, p. 63.
Sheila Farr, Crazy quilts of imagery dazzle and charm, Seattle Times, June 29, 2001, p. 40H. Illustration.
Peter Frank, Awake in Seattle, Lifescapes: West Coast Art + Design, November 2006, p. 52.
Peter Frank, Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, Nov. 18-24, 1988, p. 138. Illustration.
Peter Frank, Review of Family Values, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Dec. 14, 1994, p. D-4. Illustration.
David French, Deborah F. Lawrence, Artscene, Nov. 1988, p. 18. Illustration.
Tawnya Gerla, The envelope please..., Seattle Arts, Jan. 1994, p. 5, 7. Illustration.
Helen Gilbert, Ugly Americans: Abu Ghraib shakes U.S. complacency, Freedom Socialist Bulletin, No. 31, Winter/Spring 2004, p. 27. Illustration.
Cydney Gillis, Between selling and changing, Reflex, Feb.-Mar. 1995, p. 14. Illustration.
Lee Goss, Odd Encounters, Eastside Week, Nov. 16, 1994, p. 31-32.
Shirle Gottlieb, Of Time and Change, Artweek, Dec. 6, 1990, p. 13. Illustration.
Jen Graves, The Six Degrees of CC, The Stranger, Aug. 16, 2007.
Abigail Guay, Syndicalism: The Art of Tend & Befriend, The Stranger, Nov. 8, 2007, p. 29.
Regina Hackett, Wing Luke exhibit fosters dialogue about racial differences, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/4/04, p. 23.
Emily Hall, The Art of Politics, The Stranger, June 29-July 5, 2000, p. 37. Illustration.
Anthony L. Harvey, Dee Dee Does Utopia at Provisions Library, The InTowner, Washington, DC, January 2006, p. 9.
Josine Ianco-Starrels, Art News, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Calendar, Feb. 20, 1983.
Josine Ianco-Starrels, Downtown show for chosen seven, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 25, 1983.
Matthew Kangas, Compelling collection of art with a conscience, Seattle Times, May. 28, 2004, p. 47H.
Matthew Kangas, Diversity on display at COCA, Seattle Times, Jan. 27, 1994, p. E-5. Illustration.
Michael Laurence, Deborah Lawrence at Koslow Rayl, Art in America, April 1989, p. 271. Illustration.
Michael Laurence, An Art History Dreamtime, Artweek, April 11, 1987. Illustration.
Kim Levin, Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, The Village Voice, Sept. 1989.
Ingrid Lilligren, Abeles, Lawrence and Benish: Actively Artists, Journal, CA WCA, Spring 1991, p. 3.
Suzanne Lummis, Born To Cut, Downtown News, March 13, 1989.
Maud Lynne, Shop smart for art, L.A. Weekly, Dec. 5, 1985.
Doug Margeson, Women/Art: Exhibits focus on sex roles in society, Bellevue Journal American, 2/3/95, p. C1.
Kristine McKenna, Galleries, Los Angeles Times Calendar, Nov. 4, 1988, p. 16.
Tom McTaggert, Two months at Metropolis Gallery, Reflex, March/April 1994, p. 15. Illustration.
Kathi Norklun, LACE's 6th annual Downtown Artists' Show, Artweek, March 26, 1983. Illustration.
Kathi Norklun, Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, March 11, 1983. Illustration.
Susan Platt, Commissions, Seattle Justice Center, Sculpture Magazine, Sept. 2003. Vol. 22, No. 7, p. 26-7. Illustration.
Susan Platt, Politically Indirect: Outing the activist artist, Art Papers Magazine, Sept/Oct 1999, p.32-7. Illustration.
Charlene Roth, ...Family Values, El Camino College Art Gallery, Artweek, January 1995, p. 31. Illustration.
Jake Seniuk, On Center, Spring 1994, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 1., and Winter 1996, Vol. VIII, No. 1, p. 1. Illustration.
Rachel Shimp, Deborah Lawrence, The Seattle Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 15, April 11-17, 2007, p. 32. Illustration.
Jack Skelley, Critic's Choice, Downtown News, March 26, 1990, p. 26. Illustration.
Dana Standish, Future Perfect: A Seattle collage artist presents visions of utopia in her new book, Seattle Magazine, June 2008, Vol. 17, No 6, p. 56. Illustration.
Susan Swann, Boldface, L.A. Reader, March 23, 1984, p. 6. Illustration.
Robin Updike, Here, there and everywhere, The Seattle Times, July 1, 1999, p. G24.
Robin Updike, Art by Airmail, The Seattle Times, September 7, 1995, p. G24. Illustration.
Alicia Vaughn, Changing of the Guard, Artweek, December 17, 1992, p. 19.
Dan Webster, Freedom of expression, U.S. and Czechoslovakia, Spokane Chronicle, Feb. 8, 1991, p. D1.
Books and Catalogues
Dee Dee Does Utopia, a book by Deborah F. Lawrence, Marquand Books, Disributed by DAP, NY. May 2008 (illustrations)
Film Society of Lincoln Center, July 2007 program guide, p. 26 (illustration).
One Shot: A Visual Codec Project, 2007 (illustration).
Vision Magazine: Catalyst for Conscious Living, November, 2005 (Cover and illustrations, p. 49).
Green Time: Stories, Xlibris, 2004 (cover illustration and short story).
Art and Justice, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA, 2003 (illustration).
Project Nightingale, Experimental Gallery, Children’s Museum, Seattle, WA, 2000 (essay).
Human References: Marks of the Artist, A 10-Year Retrospective of the Seattle Artists' Program Collection, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA, 1997 (illustrations).
We're Your Future Too, Experimental Gallery, Children's Museum, Seattle, WA, 1997 (essay).
In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1996 (illustration).
Deborah F. Lawrence, Tell It Like A Woman, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, 1995 (illustrations).
Withinsight: Visual Territories of Thirty Artists, Western States Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts, 1994 (illustrations).
Wings Over the City, Westside Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, 1993 (illustration).
World News, Artists Respond to World Events, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA, 1992 (essay and illustration).
Terra Fluxus: Contemporary Landscape, University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA, 1990.
Dialogue/Prague/Los Angeles, Lidovy Dum, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1989 (illustrations).
The Ampersand, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Vol. 8, #4, 1989 (prose).
Contemporary Iconography, Rex Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 1988 (illustrations).
Source:
Information courtesy of the artsit.
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