Deborah Karpman
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| Born | Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Colgate University (BA) University of Massachusetts Amherst (MFA) |
| Occupation | Visual artist, educator, academic administrator |
| Employer | University of Southern California Rossier School of Education |
| Known for | Art and education leadership |
| Awards | American Council on Education Fellowship (2022) Alabama Fellowship University Teaching Fellowship |
Deborah Karpman is an American Visual Artist known for her leadership in art and education. Karpman was Assistant Dean for Research at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. In 2022, she was awarded the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellowship[1]
She was previously an art professor at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama. During this time, she received the Alabama Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts [2] and was awarded the University Teaching Fellowship.
Early Life and Education
Karpman was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and attended Colgate University for her Bachelor of Art and the University of Massachusetts for her MFA. She studied with artist Lynette Stephenson and DeWitt Godfrey at Colgate University, and Shona Macdonald at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Visual Art
Karpman is an artist who works primarily in collage and drawing [3]. Her work focuses on the materiality of the found page, working on old book pages and using found materials from guidebooks, diagrams, and other sources. Her work explores themes such as fragmentation and impermanence, as well as dualities between chaos and order, and creation and disintegration.
Art critic Danielle Kelly describes her work: “tiny shapes align themselves systematically across the page. Although it’s hard to discern their identity (little hammers? birdhouses? flags?), each is vaguely familiar in cut and color. Duplication of the same essential shapes in alternate iterations creates a familiarity without revealing meaning: a series of symbols for the viewer to deconstruct, like minute runes perfectly spaced on the pages of an aging manuscript. “Reading” them from left to right, a textual structure emerges, and the little arcing slivers become hieroglyphic Lilliputian mysteries.” [4] Las Vegas Weekly, Danielle Kelly, ‘In and Out of Whack’ Wonderfully Twists Grand and Restrained Art Styles at CAC, August 3, 2011.
Selected Exhibitions
Cut/Press/Fold, Curated by Buzz Spector, Craft Alliance, Saint Louis, Missouri (2025)[5]
20th Annual Magnitude Seven, Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH. (2024)
Shape - Form - Structure, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, New York, NY. (2023)
12th Annual International Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina Asheville, Curated by Pamela Phatsimo-Sunstrum (2020)
Unexpected Protocol, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL (2012)[6] [7]
MinUMENTAL, Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2011)[8]
Alabama Contemporary Arts Biennial, Johnson Center for the Arts/Troy-Pike Cultural Complex, Troy, AL (2011)
In and Out of Whack, (2 person exhibition with Kimberly Hennessy) Traveled to the following locations throughout 2011 and 2012: Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, Chester F. Sidell Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM, Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, Arts Place, Portland Indiana.[9]
Selected Reviews
Stl Jewish Light, “Buzz Spector Brings Art Memory back to St. Louis (Cut/Fold/Press Exhibition), March 2025.[10]
AL.com, “This year's 'pulp' exhibition at beta pictoris promises challenges to viewers” August, 2013.[11]
AL.com, “Deborah Karpman and Mario Trejo at Beta Pictoris Gallery, November, 2012.
Las Vegas Weekly, Danielle Kelly, ‘In and Out of Whack’ Wonderfully Twists Grand and Restrained Art Styles at CAC, August 3, 2011.
Houston Public Media, Meghan Hendley, KUHF, The Front Row at Lawndale Art Center with Deb Karpman, December 7, 2010.
The Birmingham News, June 20, 2010, James Nelson.
Public Lectures
Karpman frequently speaks about her work in various settings such as visiting artist lectures including Savannah College of Art and Design, Shelton State Community College, Birmingham Southern College, Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, Lawndale Art Center, University of Virginia Wise, and Troy University.
Personal Life
Karpman lives and works in Rancho Cucamonga, California where she lives with her husband and two sons.
References
- ↑ "ACE Fellows Program". www.acenet.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ "Alabama State Council on the Arts". arts.alabama.gov. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ "Deb Karpman". Deb Karpman. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ "Danielle Kelly - Las Vegas Weekly". lasvegasweekly.com. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ Henry, Tim (2025-02-26). "Cut/Fold/Press". Craft Alliance. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ "Past Exhibitions | Explore Our Archive — MAUS CONTEMPORARY". MAUS CONTEMPORARY. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ [email protected], Michael Huebner | (2012-11-29). "Gallery Opening: Deborah Karpman, Mario Trejo at beta pictoris". al. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ Kelly, Danielle (2011-11-30). "This year's 'minUMENTAL' show at Trifecta has a meaty twist". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ Staff, H. P. M. (2010-12-07). "The Front Row – Lawndale Art Center". Houston Public Media. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ Palmer, Jordan (2025-03-25). "Buzz Spector brings art & memory back to St. Louis". St. Louis Jewish Light. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ [email protected], Michael Huebner | (2013-08-06). "This year's 'pulp' exhibition at beta pictoris promises challenges to viewers". al. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
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