DEBRA SALOPEK

Born in California, raised in Mexico, Debra Salopek grew up bilingual, straddling two cultures. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico in printmaking and drawing, and has traveled and lived abroad for numerous years; when in the U.S., her primary home is the American Southwest.

 

Debra worked as a fine art printmaker in Los Angeles, CA, with Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, collaborating with artists such as Alex Katz, Robert Mangold, Silvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Therrien, and others, before dedicating full time to her studio with a focus on painting and works on paper. 

 

She has exhibited nationally with work in corporate collections and museums. Debra currently lives and works in Galicia, Northern Spain, with her husband and cat.

 

While using onsite drawings and photography to capture the immediacy of place, her practice in the studio is to allow memory, materials, and process to build an image.  The experienced landscape becomes its own story, a fiction built from impulse and whim.