Debra Baxter
Debra Baxter is a sculptor and jewelry designer who combines carved alabaster with crystals, minerals, metals, and found objects. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in 2008 and her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996. She also studied at Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy.
Baxter's work is rooted craft, honoring the materials that express her ideas. Of form & concept, Debra says "with the marriage of craft, design & fine art, it makes alot of sense to show there." Her contemporary jewelry designs are all about the minerals and crystals, showcasing their raw beauty.
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows including We Care a Lot at Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM; ALL I EVER WANTED, Platform Gallery, Seattle WA; So Proud of You, Howard House, Seattle, WA; and Debra Baxter, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY. Other group exhibitions include: Making Mends, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Death and Other Objects, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC; and Woman in the Director’s Chair, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Baxter’s wearable sculpture piece Devil Horns Crystal Brass Knuckles (Lefty) is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.
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She Dances Like A Bomb
Curated by Debra Baxter & Dawn Cerny 31 Jul - 12 Sep 2020Artists Debra Baxter and Dawn Cerny curate this national group show of sculptors who are all linked to Bard College’s legendary studio arts program. Baxter, who lives in Santa Fe,...Read more -
Summer Show
28 Jun - 12 Oct 2019It might be a little early in our gallery’s history,” says form & concept director Jordan Eddy. “But our summer exhibitions have become our favorite tradition.” Every summer since its...Read more -
Macrocosm: Large Works Show
30 Nov - 31 Dec 2018While artists from our 2018 programming pare their work down to 8 x 10 inches in our MICROCOSM exhibition, our jewelry artists will undertake a more expansive challenge. For its...Read more -
form & concept Annual Exhibition 2018
27 Jul - 15 Sep 2018“ From the beginning, we were interested in reimagining what an art gallery could be,” says Frank Rose, Director of form & concept gallery. “The natural starting point was asking,...Read more -
Debra Baxter: Tooth & Nail
27 Apr - 16 Jun 2018Santa Fe sculptor Debra Baxter presents a new series of sculptural artworks in her solo exhibition Tooth & Nail. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 27 from 5 to 7...Read more -
ReFashion
19 Aug - 30 Oct 2016Opening August 19, 2016, form & concept presents ReFashion through October 30. “We’re basically playing with people’s expectations of what fashion or wearability is,” says Director and Curator, Frank Rose....Read more
