Deborah Spiroff, “Flight”

72"x68" oil on canvas

 
 

About

 

Spiroff is a Brooklyn fine artist, whose abstractions and bold, mesmerizing colors have captivated eyes and minds for years. Working in a relatively large-scale format, Spiroff makes her own oil paint from which she creates her paintings. Spiroff has taught extensively at Parsons School of Design and other NYC-based art schools for well over a decade. Spiroff attended Parsons BFA undergraduate, Yale School of Dram graduate program MFA, and Pratt Fine Art graduate MFA programs. She has been a Victims/Advocate and worked to help write and create laws to strengthen the rights of women and all persons to truly be equal.  Spiroff has done extensive activism to protect and clean up the environment from industrial pollution.

For decades, Spiroff has maintained a studio practice for which she has used both rituals and meditation for creating and maintaining a vibrant studio practice. Spiroff works with both the spiritual and mystical within the language of abstraction. It is through her links to her Cherokee ancestry and the first-generation roots of her father’s heritage that she draws upon a uniquely American visual perspective of spirituality and symbolism of the world around us that is not only seen, but perceived within ourselves.