Photo credit: Robin Dupuy

Press Links

• "September 2011 Review - Debra Baxter: Wanting is Easier Than Having." art ltd. Magazine.
• "Crystal Clear: Artist Debra Baxter reveals the hidden messages in her creations." Zoo Magazine, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• "A Diamond in the Rough," Deluxxdigital Magazine.
• "2010 Spotlight Award: Debra Baxter," Seattle Magazine.
• "Review of reviews: Art - Where to buy." The Week Magazine.
• "Debra Baxter: Badass Crystal Jewelry." Design Bureau, November/December 2011.
• "Bijoux & Cailloux: L'âge Des Cristaux," Edelweiss Magazine.
• "Light come shining: Debra Baxter, Dawn Cerny and Jenny Heishman," Newsreview.com.
• "Ignition: Rock On," Zink Magazine.
• "Debra Baxter," Sculpture Magazine.
• "Debra Baxter Defies Physics at Howard House," Seattle Magazine.
• "The Stranger Suggests: Heide Hinrichs and Debra Baxter," The Stranger.
• "Currently Hanging: Debra Baxter's Dust Mask," The Stranger SLOG.
• "The Force of Absence," Gay City News.
• "Liquid, Fragile, Perishable," The Stranger.
• Featured in China's Vision Magazine. Yi, Liang. "SOIL." China: Vision. Sept., 2006, p. 190-194
• 2006 Profile of Debra Baxter. "SOIL Artist-run Gallery 2006". Published in 2006 by SOIL Art Gallery
• "Baxter's clouds exude the delicate lightness of being," The Seattle P.I.
• "These artists' visions are all in the 'Paperwork'," The Seattle P.I.
• "Soil exhibit is fertile ground for new forms," The Seattle P.I.
• "Nature becomes artificial in the hands of artists at Soil," The Seattle P.I.
• "Taste the raw, not the cooked, at CoCA show," The Seattle P.I.

Blog Links

• "Sparkle Power – The Art of Debra Baxter." Hi-Fructose.
• "Dwoista Natura Krysztalu (Dual Nature of the Crystal)," Polska Bizuteria
• "Debra Baxter Redux," My Love For You Is A Stampede Of Horses
• "Debra Baxter's Crystal Brass Knuckles," My Love For You Is A Stampede Of Horses
• "Debra Baxter's Crystal Brass Knuckles," Urban Outfitters Blog
• "Realign Your Chakras," Pine and Lord
• "Crystal Brass Knuckles," Sea of Ghosts
• "Design Porn: Statement Pieces," Flavourwire
• "RANDOM: Crystal Brass Knuckles," The Fashionably Independent

Art Zone Segment

Education

2007

Master of Fine Arts, Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

1996

Bachelor of Fine Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN

1995

Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy

1995

Porto Romano, Florence, Italy

1991

University of Nebraska College of Art And Sciences, Lincoln NE

1990

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO

Honors

2010

4Culture Special Projects Grant

2009

Jentel Artist Residency

2009

Artist Trust Fellowship

2008

4Culture Special Projects Grant

Select Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2011

Platform Gallery, "Wanting is Easier than Having," Seattle WA

2010

Shepard Gallery, "Every Distance is Not Near" with Dawn Cerny and Jenny Heisman, Reno, NV

2009

Howard House, "So Proud of You," Seattle WA

2008

Massimo Audiello Gallery New York City

2007

Soil, "Yielded," with Robert de Saint Phalle Seattle WA.

2005

4Culture Gallery, "The Cloud that Fell to Earth," Seattle WA

2004

Soil, "Topography of Home," Seattle WA

2002

The Commencement Gallery, Tacoma WA

Zeitgeist Gallery, "lightness/weight" Seattle WA

2001

Artreach Gallery, "code/coincidence" Seattle WA

2000

Ace Studios Gallery, Seattle WA

1999

Madrona Automatic, "mine" Seattle WA

Charles Wright Academy Tacoma, WA

1998

The Studio Art Center, Everett, WA.

Alexander Gallery, Seattle WA.

Studio 229, Seattle WA.

1997

Royal Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

1996

Old Arizona Studios, Minneapolis, MN.

August Moon, Golden Valley, MN. 1996 East Lake Street Gallery, Minneapolis MN.

1995

Gallery 221, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN

Select Group Exhibitions

2013

OCHI gallery, "Scientific Visions", Sun Valley ID

2012

ArtSpace, "Another Crystal Land," Collaboration with Margot Quan Knight, New Haven Connecticut

The Hedreen Gallery at the Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University,"The rug pulled out from underneath; you lie on the floor," Seattle WA

Greg Kucera Gallery, "Ladies Choice," Seattle WA

Weltenbuerger Art Space L.A., "Ermie Guest Curation," Los Angeles CA

Roq La Rue, "Red Current," Seattle WA

2011

In Your Face, SHOWstudio, London

SOME/THINGS Gallery, Paris France

G. Gibson Gallery, "Protective Ornament" curated by Suzanne Ramljak

Nepo House, "Encounters," Seattle WA

2010

Henry Art Gallery, "Gift Shop/Midnight Requisition," Seattle WA

2009

Or Gallery, "Death and Objects," Vancouver BC

2006

Or Gallery, "Why I Am So Unhappy," Vancouver BC

2005

Performa05, Grand openings, Film Anthalogy Archives, New York City with Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, and Emily Sunblad

Ballard Featherston, "I want you to want me," Seattle WA

Aqua Art Miami, Miami Florida (corresponding with Art Basel Miami)

First Year Show, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York

Soil, "Green," Seattle WA

2004

Platform, "Paperworks," Seattle WA

Soil, "New Acquisions," Seattle WA

Soil, "Masquerade," Seattle WA

2003

COCA Northwest Annual, Juried by Esther Luttikhuizen, Seattle WA

Soil, "Specimen," Seattle WA

Bumbershoot, The Gallery of Collections and Creations," Seattle WA

Ten63, Long Island NY

Consolidated Works, “The Girly Fun Show,” Seattle, WA

Art Resource Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Artreach Gallery, “Let them eat cake,” Seattle, WA

2002

Bellevue Art Museum, “Our Response to Place,” Juried Show, Seattle WA.

2000

Artreach Gallery, Seattle WA

Mix Gallery, Seattle WA.

Theater4, Seattle WA.

1998

Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA.

1997

Art Resource Gallery, St. Paul, MN.

Gigfest, Minneapolis, MN.

Grants Pass Art Museum, Grants Pass, Oregon.

Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN.

Witter Gallery, Storm Lake, Iowa.

1996

Walker Art Center, “Woman in the Director’s Chair,” Minneapolis, MN

Minnetonka Center for the Arts, “faculty show,” Minnetonka, MN.

Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN.

Pen and Brush Gallery, New York.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design's Senior Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN.

Calhoun Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.

1995

Flanders Contemporary Arts, Minneapolis MN.

Gallery 221, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN.

Parts Gallery, Juried local color show, Minneapolis MN.

Screenings

2010

Solus a Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland

Banff Center Screening at Beautiful Lives. Banff, Canada.

MVMA Fest 2010, Marfa TX

Co-Lab, organized by Birdhouse Collective in Austin, TX

Version 10 Festival, Chicago, IL.

2009

DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) Ireland.

Small House Screening. San Paulo, Brazil.

Private and Public Collections

• ColorBright Inc., Minneapolis, MN
• Nano Systems, Philadelphia PA
• Bemidji State Bank, Bemidji, MN
• Eisenstadt Collection, Minneapolis, MN
• Progressivev Insurance, NYC
• Convertito Residence, Minneapolis, MN
• Shipior Professionals Attorney at Law, Golden Valley, MN

Bibliography