"I consider myself mostly a landscape painter - even my abstract work is based on landscapes, or at least inspired by the natural world. Fields , flowers, trees, the sky - everything I see around me finds it’s way into my painting"
Bauder Fashion College, Miami, Fl. 1973
Monterey Penninsula College, Monterey, Ca. 1983
Studied watercolor with Edwin Adamson and Plein Air Pastel with Albert Handell, Doug Dawson and Christine Debrosky
Second Prize 2013 Mount Dora Plein Air Paint Out, Mount Dora, Florida.
Judge's Choice 2008 Adirondack Theme Show, Arts Center, Old Forge, NY
Jurors’ Silver Prize 2005 Adirondack Fine Art Center Juried Show, Lake Placid, NY
Community Spirit Award, Arts and Culture for Oswego County, For significant contributions to the Arts and culture of the county 2003
Best Work on Paper 1991 Canastota Small Scale Show, Canastota, NY *Clement Greenburg, Juror
Honorable Mention 1989 & 1990, 2004 National League of American Pen Women, Syracuse, NY
First Place, Mixed Media 1988 Parish Art Festival, Parish, NY
Honorable Mention 1986 & 1989 Allegheny International Art Exhibition, Princeton, WV
Best of Show 1981 Pope AFB Juried Exhibition, Fayetteville, NC
Exhibitions
(Partial Listing)
"Anthology" Recent work by Debe and KV Abbott. Mount Dora Center for the Arts. Mount Dora, Fl. 2021
"Textures and Beyond", Founders Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Fl. 2019
The Reach Center, Rome, NY 2018
4 Elements, Utica, NY 2018
Gallery 3040, Old Forge, NY 2015 - Present
Mount Dora Center for the Arts Plein Air Festival, Mt. Dora, Florida. 2013, 2014, 2015. 2016 (featured artist 2015)
Art Circle Gallery, Walhalla, SC 2012, 2013
Paper Sculpture Invitational, Arts Center, Old Forge, NY 2012
Artist in Residence, Gallery on First, Sanford, Florida 2011 - Present
Willful Eclecticism, Post Modern Invitational, Timothy McHenry Gallery, Oswego, NY 2009
Totally Abstract, Nonobjective Invitational, Timothy McHenry Gallery, Oswego, NY 2008
Finger Lakes Gallery, 2008 - 2015, Canandaigua, NY
Edgewood Gallery, 2010 Syracuse, New York
Circle Gallery, Seneca, South Carolina, 2012
Vintage Art, 2007-2009 Seneca, South Carolina
Northeast National Pastel Exhibition, 2005,2008 Old Forge, New York
CNYAC Gallery 2004 Stanley Theater, Utica, New York
Margie’s Muse 2002 - 2010 Jamaica, Vermont
Roberta Wood Gallery 1998 - 2002 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Roselawn Galleries 1991 - 2002 Pittsford, New York
Great Artspectations 2000 - 2002 Syracuse, New York
Divercity 1999 Syracuse, New York
Roberta Wood Gallery 1994 - 1997 Dewitt, New York
Elhoff Gallery 1988 - 1992 Syracuse, New York
Featured Artist, WCNY Art Invitational, 1993 Syracuse, New York
Southern Vermont Art Center 1991 Manchester, Vermont
Del Bello Gallery 1991 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago 1990 Chicago, Illinois
"The 24 Collection" 1986 - 1997 Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
Florida International Art Expo 1989 Tampa, Florida
Marietta Cobb Fine Art Center 1988 Marietta, Georgia
Gallery Christine Plus 1985 Spring Harbor, Michigan
The Fort Ord Gallery 1984 Monterey, California
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art 1983, 1984 Monterey, California
Collection of Contemporary Southern Art, 1980 Fayetteville, North Carolina
Publications
Orlando Sentinel, 2014
Seminole Magazine, 2012
UCF Future Magazine, 2012
Sanford Herald, 2012, 2014, 2018
CNY Artist Showcase. 2010
Oswego County Business Magazine, 2008
American Artist Magazine 2007
Syracuse Post Standard 2010, 2004, 1998, 1997, 1993, 1986
Syracuse New Times 2010, 1994, 1988
Preview Magazine 1997, 1993
Decor Magazine 1993
Art Business News 1993
New York Art Review 1990
Collections
Many private and corporate collections including ,CFE Credit Union, PAYCHEX Inc., Hewlett Packard, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., Perkins Restaurants and Fulton Savings Bank.
Art in Embassies Program
Selected by curators of the U.S. State Department’s AIEP as an art ambassador participant for the American Embassy in El Salvador, 2004.
National League of American Pen Women
In 2005 inducted as a full art member into NLAPW.
http://www.americanpenwomen.org/
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