Deborah Barlow grew up in the western United States but has lived most of her life in New York City and Boston. She studied art at the University of Utah, in Grenoble France, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since her first solo show in New York City at the age of 25, she has exhibited her work in galleries across the US as well as in Italy, Belgium, Ireland and the UK.
She lives in Brookline Massachusetts and works from her studio in South Boston.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth Maine
2011
Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
2010
Brooklyn Workshop Gallery, Brooklyn New York
2009
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts
2008
38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts
Gallery at the Geary, San Francisco California
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
2007
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
2006
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
Oylan Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester New York
38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts
2005
Gallery at the Geary, San Francisco California
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland, Portland Oregon
2004
38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
2003
Gallery at the Geary, San Francisco California
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
2002
Terraka Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
2001
Gallery at the Geary, San Francisco California
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts
1999
Hunneman, Cambridge Massachusetts
Anam Cara, West County Cork Ireland
1997
Terraka Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland Oregon
Group Shows (selected)
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence Rhode Island 2012
Winter Studio Gallery, Wenham Massachusetts, 2011
James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 2011
Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell New Jersey, 2010
Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico, 2010
Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico, 2009
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown Massachusetts, 2000-2009
38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2007
Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua New York 2007
Oylan, Cambridge Massachusetts 2006
Artcetera, Boston Center for the Arts (juried), Boston Massachusetts 2006
Oylan, Cambridge Massachusetts 2006
Artcetera, Boston Center for the Arts (juried), Boston Massachusetts 2004
38 Cameron Gallery, Boston Massachusetts, 2004
Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence Italy (juried), 2003
Artcetera, Boston Center for the Arts (juried), Boston Massachusetts, 2002
Nomad Gallery, Taos New Mexico, 2001
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton Massachusetts, 2001
Courtney Fine Arts, Marblehead Massachusetts, 2001
Artcetera, Boston Center for the Arts (juried), Boston Massachusetts, 2000
Gallery Terraka, Boston Massachusetts, 2000
Beara Arts, West County Cork Ireland, 2000
College of New Jersey, Trenton New Jersey (juried), 1999
Gallery Terraka, Boston Massachusetts, 1999
Century Club, New York New York (juried), 1998
Gordon College, Wenham Massachusetts (juried), 1998
Press
"Apparent Glimmerings," Cape Courier, December 2011
"Deborah Barlow," Art News, Summer 2011
"All Art Friday," by Maureen Doallas, Writing Without Paper, February 2011
"Deborah Barlow—Artist Interview", Lynette Haggard, January 2011
"Ambience and Eternity: Artists Deborah Barlow and Rina Peleg," by David St.-Lascaux, Interrupting Infinity, July 2010
"Deborah Barlow," by Liz Stanley, Say Yes to Hoboken, July 2010
"The Art of Deborah Barlow--Living at Large With the World," Design Squared, May 2010
"She Listens Multidimensionally," by Maureen Doallas, Writing Without Paper, December 2009
"Art Openings," Wicked Local Wellfleet, June 2009
Featured artist in Wild Apples Journal of Nature, Art, and Inquiry, Spring 2009
"Land, Hand and Edge: 25 Years of Painting by Deborah Barlow," show catalog, 2009
"Abstract Tone," The Improper Bostonian, December 17, 2008 - January 6, 2009
"Non-Objective Painting in Cape Cod Galleries," by Jan Lhormer, Cape Arts Review, Volume VIII, 2008
Encore (American Conservatory Theatre), February/March 2008
"The Pleasure of Perception," by Anthony Bannon, The Chautauquan Daily, August 1 4, 2007
"Deborah Barlow," by Jan Lhormer, Art in New England, October/November 2006
ArtCetera Exhibition Catalog, Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, 2006
"Trace, by Deborah Barlow", University of Rochester, Rochester New York, March 8, 2006
"Stay! 38 Cameron show depicts humanity," Cambridge Chronicle, January 19, 2006
Encore (American Conservatory Theatre), Fall 2005
Institute of Contemporary Art, New Group, Boston, March 22, 2005
"All about art," Boston Globe, March 22, 2005
ArtCetera Exhibition Catalog, Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, 2004
"Paintings," Boston Metro, November 15, 2004
"The Seen and the Unseen," by Brenner Thomas, Provincetown Magazine, June 24-30, 2004
"On Display", by Patricia Zur, LIP, June 24, 2004
Encore (American Conservatory Theatre), February 2003
Encore (American Conservatory Theatre), April/May 2001
"Deborah Barlow," by Michael Robertson, Ph.D. Private Passions: Works from the collections of The College of New Jersey faculty show essay, February 1999
"Bear Byways," by Denise Hall. The Cork Examiner (Ireland), February 1999
"A Vision of the Unseen," by Deborah Barlow. Verve, the Art of Creativity, Emerson College, February 1997
"More Than…" by William R. Childs. World Rhythm, December 1996/January 1997
Profiled in Business and the Feminine Principle, the untapped resource, by Carol R. Frenier. Butterworth Heineman, 1996