Deborah Warren began her career in Memphis making documentary films about
community issues and
cultural traditions of Tennessee and the Mississippi Delta. Since 1989 she has
worked as a fine art
photographer in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Her portfolios include landscapes and
historic architecture
of America, Italy, and Cuba.
Warren's focus is the changing landscape in its most elemental
forms, the myths and
folklore
associated with a sense of place, and the architecture designed to frame the
landscape. She
accentuates light, air and water and the life-giving qualities those elements
impart to stone, wood,
and earth. She is motivated by a deep love of the landscape and respect for
the spiritual message
of a monument.
Warren's photographs have been featured in juried, solo, group and
invitational
exhibitions in
galleries and museums throughout the United States and Germany, including the
Nikon House, New York
City; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Bremen World
Trade Center,
Germany; the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas; the Arkansas Arts
Center, and the Historic
Arkansas Museum of Little Rock; El Museo Cultural de Sante Fe, New Mexico; and
the Buckman Arts
Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
In 2011 Warren's work is included in the Arkansas Women to Watch
exhibition which will
travel
statewide to various museum and gallery venues.
Warren has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants and honors
including the
Elisabeth J.
Pruett scholarship from the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women
in the Arts to
photograph landscapes and architecture in Cuba; an Individual Fellowship of
Photography from the
Arkansas Arts Council; a Regional Artist Project grant from the Contemporary
Arts Center of New
Orleans; and a Hot Springs National Park Artist-in-Residency. Additionally, the
Arkansas Committee
of the National Museum of Women in the Arts selected Warren as the 2007 Woman to
Watch.
Her photographs have appeared in several notable regional
exhibitions including Arkansas
Arts
Center's Delta Exhibition, NMWA's Originals! Arkansas Women Artists and Arkansas
Arts Council's
Small Works on Paper.
"View from Iznaga Tower, Cuba " was featured in the 2001 From the
States exhibition at
the
National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Writer Jill Waterman's
profile, "Deborah
Warren: One Picture's Story", appeared in the National Museum of Women in the Arts
magazine. She has
also been the featured artist in AY magazine ("Captured Beauty").
Her photographs have
been published nationally in American Heritage and Guideposts magazines and are
included in many
private, public and corporate collections.